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  • Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

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  • I've used Enterprise IoT for a while, which is supposed to be the cleanest possible build of Windows (except for the Chinese government special one) and that STILL somehow managed to introduce ads after updates, reset settings, force me to use the GameBar, and so on.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • That's not entirely true. It's true that Microsoft invested in Apple, but it's not true that they were about to get broken up and that Microsoft money saved them.

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • The thing with “just works” in monopolies is that it eventually stops working

    This gets accelerated when the company starts changing the product just for the sake of having to change something to meet some OKR, or because they need to find a way to incorporate the newest marketing buzz (cloud, AI, etc).

    The Office suite was simple to use and performant. Nowadays I watched a college professor struggle for 8 minutes trying to figure out how to save a file locally rather than saving it to OneDrive, because they redesigned everything around that. It also takes an obnoxiously long time to launch, it keeps popping up some Copilot button in inconvenient places too.

  • Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface

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  • We are talking about operating system adoption.

  • Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface

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  • The average user no longer uses a PC at all.

    There are lots of us, but we are not the majority. The average user is quite literally doing everything from their phone, and they don't care about any OS.

  • Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface

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  • The thought of relying on Microsoft services for something sends shivers down my spine.

    Then I remember there are adults in this world using Outlook to keep their agendas, paying for MSN news, people BOUGHT MEDIA AND SOFTWARE from the built in stores Microsoft created and abandoned. I can't imagine it.

  • GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out.

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  • I really don't understand CEO's obsession with AI... is it because when they give LLMs a go they feel smart and finally capable of doing the things others could do but they were too dumb to engage with, like reasonably good writing or drawing pictures?

  • Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

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  • as long as certain jobs and tasks can be done easier, and searches can be done faster

    I'm still waiting for somebody to prove any of these statements are true. And I say that as somebody working in a company that demands that several employees use AI - all I see is that they now take extra time manually fixing whatever bad output the LLM produced, and slowly losing their ability to communicate without first consulting ChatGPT, which is both slow and concerning.

  • Cutting Out the Middleman (by Jen Sorensen)

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  • Yeah no. You just didn't understand the comic and made a stupid point. It happens.

  • Cutting Out the Middleman (by Jen Sorensen)

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  • Calling somebody using a retro MP3 player "Amish 2.0" is as moronic as calling you a tech bro neuralink implanted Musk boy just because you're defending technological progress. Both would be equally ridiculous statements, but the difference is, you actually wrote the moronic comment.

  • Cutting Out the Middleman (by Jen Sorensen)

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  • Exactly.

  • Cutting Out the Middleman (by Jen Sorensen)

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  • Technological progress isn’t inherently anything

    Exactly. So arguing that "you shouldn't technologically regress" is meaningless.

    Fighting against it is like fighting the laws of the universe

    Not only is this not applicable to the argument at hand, given there's no law of nature that makes a CD player implode just because Spotify exists, but this statement is so bizarrely wrong it's almost hard to take the rest of the discussion seriously.

  • Cutting Out the Middleman (by Jen Sorensen)

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  • does not involve technologically regressing.

    The fallacy that technological progress is inherently good is simply flawed. You could say "instead of relying on Spotify, and instead of "technologically regressing", learn open source alternatives and host your own Jellyfin server!"

    But what was wrong with "technologically regressing" exactly? A MP3, CD or even tape recording player will: always work, sound great, require zero user friction, never receive updates or security flaws, not depend on a convoluted self hosted setup.

    Do you want to listen to music or impress Lemmy? There's absolutely no argument to be made that requires accepting all tech simply because it's tech.

  • Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store

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  • Users make abhorrent weird workarounds for that, like running a PC software that uses a free temporary developer license to re-license an app on your phone, that then uses that license to resign other apps ""automatically""

  • Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store

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  • Haven’t really run into any issues with them

    This has been changed if you're lucky enough to have a recent Android version, but not long ago any gallery app sideloaded from external sources couldn't be set as the system gallery, meaning managing pictures was really annoying because any changes required a pop up confirmation.

  • Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store

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  • If Google is sad, I'm happy

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • The FSF (and RMS himself) wanted an alternative for online payments for ages, without crypto. An anonymous buffer layer between your payment method, like a credit card, and the vendor. I believe something was eventually released but it never took off, because unlike something like a NFC Wallet, vendors would have to natively support GNU's version.

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • I wouldn't mind not having a native Linux drive client if they didn't block rsync, which used to work, and now does not. What a stupid decision.

  • Voting

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  • white isn’t a race it’s the social construct that means the absence of race

    All "races" are social constructs, there are no biological races for our species and the way we define social races isn't even uniform across different cultures.

    means the absence of race

    And that is actually a profoundly racist statement that roots many portions of white supremacist ideology.

    why it’s literally impossible to be racist against white people

    While it's quite easy to argue that white people are in no danger of becoming ethnically prosecuted in most of western society, your statement that it's impossible to be racist against white people is got a built in logic contradiction and is therefore invalid by nature. Even without the contradiction, all it takes to take down a blanket statement like that is finding a counter-example, and that's so trivial I could find historical examples in less than five minutes.