How do Windows users fix a problem? They Google the problem and get the solution.
The EXACT same thing works in Linux. Has for a long, long time.
The only time it DOESN'T is when you either don't know what you're trying to do, in which case no power on EARTH is going to be able to help you, or you're trying to do something so obscure and obtuse that a Windows user wouldn't be doing it either.
I do. I empathize with it completely. I'm not even saying that condition is WRONG. But I AM saying that turning someone's lamentation of the situation into an attack on them is crass. It's possible to acknowledge the bad situation one group is in, and acknowledge their actions are reasonable, while ALSO being sympathetic about the collateral damage of the situation.
This is EXTREME hyperbole like I've rarely seen before.
Is all empathy secret projection for one's own insecurity? Or only when the empathy is for someone who isn't a member of a traditionally/systemically victimized group?
No, I didn't expect that, which is why it was stupid to say it in the first place. You can't turn this around and put it on the customer to have to read between the lines what the business is trying to actually say. How about, the multi-billion dollar company that has entire buildings full of lawyers doesn't make claims that it can't back up?
I'm not saying it's right to expect that the Windows operating system was never going to have to have a paid upgrade again, but it was also stupid and wrong to make the claim that it wouldn't. That's on them. Nobody held a gun to their head and told them to lie to their customers and then later claim they didn't mean it. And furthermore, why give them the benefit of the doubt? You think if you were in trouble because of something stupid you said, Microsoft is going to come to your aid? Is it being fair? To a company that wouldn't care if they accidentally bankrupted you with a forced update?
And sure, they can "clarify"all they want that he didn't mean the words that he said precisely and accurately in unambiguous English. It doesn't change the fact that he's not some random employee. He is an executive. He knows, and everyone else should know as well, that he speaks as a representative of the company. Otherwise what's to keep them from lying through their teeth about whatever features they want? "It prints free money! It'll cure all your diseases! No, no.. he didn't mean that."
So tiptoe around the bully and change your behavior in the hopes he decides to leave you alone?
Screw him, and screw his feelings. We have the right to free speech, it's not "free speech as long as we don't upset a jerk." If he goes off the rails and pulls a Nero over it, that's on HIM. I'm not gonna tiptoe around him with this "he who must not be named" crap in the hopes that he can be appeased by keeping quiet, and I'm ESPECIALLY not going to do it for MY servant, which is what he, as the president, is.
Don't worry. The people who were really scared never stopped. They didn't get their vaccinations (education) and are susceptible to all kinds of infections (bullshit).
There's a book called "The Forge of God" by Greg Bear, and in it,
the Earth is going to be destroyed by killer, self-replicating probes, and they've set the event that's going to cause the end in motion, and it's basically on a timer at the center of the Earth, and everyone is AWARE of it, but there's absolutely nothing anybody can do. It sets up this eerie part of the book where the world is completely screwed, but people are still alive and everything SEEMS normal, and they have to go about their lives. But it's over, everyone knows it, and everyone is just kind of going around with this oppressive elephant in the room. That's now.
And if your projection gets you through yours, more power to you as well. I'm just a guy on the internet. I don't know why getting the last word here is so important to you, but far be it from me to deny you something you seem to need so badly. I'd think that high salary of yours would free you from needing the validation of making speculative personal insults at random shitposters who hurt your feelings, but hey, if you want it, you take it. Congratulations on your internet victory!
Well, you're right. Everyone has to draw their own line. I'll agree with you this is probably less egregious than some, and I personally do make make purchases I shouldn't from institutions I shouldn't to get by.
But I do every single one of those holding my nose and acknowledging I'm contributing to a problem.
I made a general comment, and my opinion has not changed. You didn't have to make it personally about you, but you decided to come defend your honor against a nonspecific shitpost. Just like MY opinion is mine, yours is YOURS, and you didn't need to jump in here.
Heck, I specifically addressed my initial comment to "lazy, doormat Spotify users" and for some reason you decided I was talking about you.
Look, I can't expect your assessment of value proposition to align with mine - we are different people.
But if I were a paying Spotify customer, and they gave $250 million dollars to pay someone I think is actively damaging the world, and then started charging me MORE to pay for it, there is ABSOLUTELY no amount of cost benefit and convenience that would keep me there.
I will sit in a dark, silent room motivating on pure spite before I would accept such an indignity.
"I'm SO good at making money that I don't care when people cheat me out of it for no other reason than because they feel like it. This is something I am proud of."
Lazy doormat Spotify users: "Okay... but this is the LAST, LAST, LAST TIME FOR REAL. Do it again and there'll be a hashtag and a series of Tiktok memes!"
I feel like all of this is a red herring.
How do Windows users fix a problem? They Google the problem and get the solution.
The EXACT same thing works in Linux. Has for a long, long time.
The only time it DOESN'T is when you either don't know what you're trying to do, in which case no power on EARTH is going to be able to help you, or you're trying to do something so obscure and obtuse that a Windows user wouldn't be doing it either.