m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@tindall@cybre.space @elmiko@mastodon.technology And MS doesn't feed on support from governments and enterprises, MS exists off your money. Not directly, but still. So that is how it would work — buy a computer that comes with linux. Tell the market what you want instead of adapting to it yourself by buying a system designed for Windows and installing Linux on it. Capitalism kinda works in this case. Even HP has models like Dev One which comes with Linux — looks like a decent piece of hardware to me 🤷

@tindall@cybre.space @elmiko@mastodon.technology It already worked! MS is far from being a friend of free software, but MS we have today is a shadow of its former self. I remember the days when there was no Purism, no System 76, no linux support for most hardware — chances were good that even your wired network adapter won't work. And MS could shove just about anything down your throat.
It's not like that anymore. As average Joe moves to mobile MS is close to being irrelevant.

@Mitsu Sounds perfectly reasonable! No one is willing to share his carefully selected collection of oddballs with a stranger.

@eris Not the frog only. Some tried to associate the "okay" hand gesture with alt right. That is just insanity on a whole new level!

@Mitsu Oh, you already have this video!
Didn't scroll down far enough, sorry 😅

@Mitsu I wish I could have one as a pet.
But they are basically large rodents so they have a pretty short lifespan, that makes me reluctant. Losing one would be so sad 😭

@FutaFanatic Wait, are they not?
Weren't same sex marriages in the US legalized around the same time Microsoft introduced the Windows+dot shortcut for emoji picker?

@tindall@cybre.space @elmiko@mastodon.technology Voting with money, supporting companies like these, making them less fragile and their products less expensive, sounds like a more plausible plan to me than sabotaging MS into not being evil (?!) 🤔

@Spudi Надеюсь, что там через дорогу есть Сбербанк. Чтобы можно было потом туда, где открывали карту, туда и приходить.

@Evv1L Его никогда и не было. Какая может быть защита персональных данных в стране, где ещё во времена медленного Интернета все эти «базы МВД» с лотка у метро продавались?
Это нужно было только для того, чтобы склонить международные компании сливать данные пользователей чекистам.

@blackmore Everyone seems to hate this "eat ze bugz" thing, but why? I don't get it!
No one makes you do it, there is a pretty good alternative: https://www.foxnews.com/science/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop

I think I'll take the bugs though.

@sai Now we're talking!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network @dushman And I got all the Assassin's Creed games I didn't have at the time and Sleeping Dogs — an entertaining GTA-clone. Not that bad, huh?
TBH there were really bad games too, I don't know how these games even made it into the game store. I don't remember the name, but in one of the games you had to run around the screen with some colorful… worms. That shit was just horrible!

@sai But that thing is not cancer! It doesn't even have pincers!

@yes @hfaust The free software crowd isn't exactly racist. They are just misanthropic in general.

This is the error message I got today on trying to retrieve an image from the web site of FSB-endorsed social network ВКонтакте. It literally says: too many requests from your address, you have to enable javascript to fix it. WTF?! This doesn't even make any sense!

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network Sickening georestrictions happened long before it became obvious to the rest of the world that Russia is bad.
Try browsing Soundcloud with an exit node in UAE — you'll discover a world of pain.
I've deleted my SoundCloud account after being a paying customer for several years because I couldn't listen to something called Imaginary Dragons.
Later I've realized that SC was trying to protect me, I've listened to Imaginary Dragons elsewhere and it was bad. Not godawful, just bad.

@dushman Oh, you get it! 🤣

@dushman BTW preorders are always bad. Nearly every company out there does stuff like this.
I mean you do get a rare ratdog companion, a shiny wooden sword and a cool hat that… you know, looks cool. But then in a week or two they start selling the game with a 50% discount 🤦🏿