Dyskolos

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

What happened to "knowledge is free and out there"?

Oh that's an absolutely free choice. Learn or dont. But you wouldn't hear me complaining for laws to protect me from an evil carmaker that made an evil car that I bought. I educate myself or just accept to potentially be fucked over.

People don't learn about linux for the same reason you don't learn about your car.

Yeah right, exactly. And when my car does something stupid, who is to blame? Me or the manufacturer? I clearly bought the stupid feature willingly. I'm not 12 anymore.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

Again, you're kinda right.

You don’t blame victims of elaborate scams for being victims.

No, of course not. But we're talking about MS here. A quasi-monopolistic company that exactly does what one would expect it to do. Exploit, change, modify, extort, whatever.

Consumers need to be protected, but one could at least expect a minimum amount of responsibility for their actions. I hate Apple with all my heart, but there's actually an equally clicky-simply solution: Apple. The same shit, just even more walled and a tad more expensive. Or Ubuntu. Both simple, easy, colorful alternatives. Or stay with MS and use Libreoffice and store your shit LOCALLY goddamit, to remain adjacent to the article here.

And If i were to spend my time on a non-profit (or anything else), I invest a tiny bit of research before choosing things. Time invested in research prior to decisions results in less time troubleshooting later. Especially(!) if we were talking about CLOUD-space where I store my stuff. And even more especially if that data is important.

Sure, it'll be great if MS could get forced to, but my argument would still remain untouched.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

You missed the ad-part about his cool books 😁

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

You're right in all points. But still, knowledge is free and out there. MS is here for a long time now. And honestly, if I'm using things without knowing anything about them, who is to blame? Am I not simply ignorant?

If I just walk into traffic, being ignorant of cars that might exist, and get run over. Would it be fair and square to protect ignorant me by prohibiting cars? Or that road?

Consumer-protection is very important, and I'm a great advocate for it. But can't we just assume a tiny amount of reflection? We should protect people from e.g. connected cars, rising prices and whatnot. But If I'd hire a murderer from murder-r-us to mow my lawn, and he kills me. Is it really his fault? How could I have known?

I think there's a certain threshold between not-having-to-know (e.g. relative prices on supermarket's price-tags for easy comparison) and should-be-obvious (e.g. monopolies are never a good thing and never have your interest at heart).

have better to do than becoming sys admins.

Exactly! That's why I go to a mechanic with my car and listen to his advice, as I have zero clue about how that car even works. And it's also obvious I don't install anything myself or just buy brand X because "everyone does". I ask professionals.i don't decide, I delegate.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah makes sense for them... Good I don't consume that crap.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

And it's already >9000 of it...

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

And it worked so well 😁 What kinda worked back then were the "copy protection" of games. Like the paper wheels to turn and whatnot.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably just banned because vpn, especially proton. I can't count the sited I can't visit anymore because of VPN. Even steam asks me questions like WHY am I signing in "like that"...

I'd try another VPN and/or just another fresh browser. One you'd never use anyway. Just to see where's the culprit.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (5 children)

YouTube became evil when google ditched their slogan "don't be evil!".

So, it was evil from the start. It just needed to lure enough uncritical consumers in before enshittification started. Piece by piece.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You probably just only removed all traces of your identity that you can think of 😁 Though, nothing much lost. .

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