Stereotypes ain’t cool, dawg.

The chatbots tell you what you want to hear.

Don’t forget that.

I’m practically tech illiterate, but managed to switch myself over to Linux after watching some guides a few years ago.

He’s the 1st one I used: https://youtu.be/4mySqL4bCSw

I have to wonder what the October end of life for Windows 10 will bring in that regard.

Computers are expensive. Some people will buy something new, others won’t be able. That crowd has 2 options of finding a new OS or using one that’s no longer supported.

The hunger for money and power increases with how much money and power a person has.

And it’s always been that way.

That’s exactly what it is.

They see more dollar signs from fascism than they do from pretending to care about, well, anything.

Individuals can do that, and they should if they feel like keeping MS.

Organizations are, unfortunately, probably going to remain stagnant and keep paying millions to for things that have free alternatives.

It’s actually really infuriating. When I was in grad school I filed an information request with the college to see how much they paid for access to Office 365 each year. This was in 2021 and they were paying 4 million a year. Meanwhile their grad student employees were all living deeply below the poverty line.

Individual users can make use of free alternatives pretty easily, but I’m not sure they’re actually the target for the price increase here.

Schools, governments, businesses, and other institutions pay wild amounts to MS every year.

I work in academia. I’m a lowly paid adjunct who teaches 8 classes across 4 schools to make ends meet.

In the lead up to this semester, each school has had a mandatory Zoom meeting to get everyone involved on the same page.

In all 4 instances, I sat there and fucking seethed watching people who make upward of 10 times what I do just endlessly fumble with the technology while saying nothing of value for 2 hours.

It’s honestly amazing just how inept the manager class is.

I saw it in theaters and, yeah, I couldn’t tell you a single thing about this movie if my life depended on it.

I’ve been using Mint and Pop!_OS on two different machines for a few years.

Neither has really required much from me as the user, although I have needed to use the terminal once on each of them.

Personally, I really like the way Pop does window tiling and workspaces.

You mean ecards?

I feel old. Where are my pills?

Teaching people to be compassionate out of a promise of reward was always a terrible idea. No society has ever really rewarded kindness.

We should be teaching young people that compassion is an act of rebellion against uncaring systems and always has been.

I have no doubt they’d try.

But, other people in his party will try to fill the void too, and none of them or his kids have the horrid charisma that he does.

If he lives that long.

Despite all the shitty AI pictures of him with abs, the guy is still old as fuck and in terrible health.

https://youtu.be/YDgTRY9vGCM?si=2pZw0h02sAO7pk9R

Plenty of lawyers, at least some of them talented, will offer to defend him for free.

It could make their career.

That’s what I mean by “cold.” More “past the point of emotion.”

Passionate violence is a different thing. Like you say, it looks very logical and planned. Casual.

I’m probably reading into things here, but then again we all are.

I saw cold hate in his posture when he did the deed. This is someone who lost their beloved to an algorithm.

And, yeah, he could be one of literally several million people that way.

Pressure cooker sales to the moon!