Ohhh OK! My bad, I misinterpreted that as excitement not alertedness.

I’ve been deGoogling things at home already, and. DeMicrosofting as much as one can at home and work too. I’ve been relying heavily on Non-US tech a lot lately and got to alleviate some additional issues, by migrating away.

It’s really worrisome to think about the worsened mass surveillance than what it already is.

Keep dreaming! Chrome OS and Chromebooks in general are nearly as expensive as actual windows PCs with 5%the functionality. Just go straight up Linux at that point!! Free, open source, EASY to install or dual boot even. It is far better than anything Google would put out.

If you’ve never tried it, follow any one of the million guides for Ubuntu or Mint and you’ll be amazed. Even Steam OS, CachyOS, ZorinOS, or other gaming oriented systems.

I forget this isn’t the privacy thread, but you can’t just “hope” Google’s going to fix everything wrong with Windows when they’re doing the same exact thing as each other. You want to break free, you want functional, you want privacy, get Linux.

Gross, combining Chrome OS with Android? NO thanks! Another OS to harvest data to the max! “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” does not apply to Google at this point.

I’m not saying you’re an asshat nor do I think you came across that way! Thanks for being civil at the very least and adding to a debate without getting heated. It’s nice to have a great discussion!

Touché. Again, just playing devil’s advocate for this topic, having lived both sides. More so it’s easy to be dismissive of something one does not understand.

Understandable, and that’s the issue. I’m not saying morality should be an exemption, but there’s a difference between actively supporting, condemning, and just allowing people to coexist-knowing we’re the same yet not all the same.

If I could hire at my company, I would! “We don’t have the budget” for extra IT.

If you’ve never “practiced” a religion, then its pretty easy to be judgmental towards it. Many people grow up in very religious households and it’s hard to beak away from what was so normal for so long. I grew up in one of these households, and while I don’t actively participate in going to church anymore, it still helped shape me to be who I am, and I wouldn’t have such a strong core group of friends without it.

All the crazy stuff people associate with Christians is due to televangelists mostly being predatory, movies/TV, bad spotlight or events coming to light (like ~20 years ago there media focused on all the Catholic boys who were molested by various priests).

I, myself, am not about to get preachy and defensive towards religion, but I would like to play devils advocate and argue that the racial equality fight, women’s rights, and more recently LGBTQ movement towards equal healthcare and or acceptance is no different than a simple:

“If you’re going to be accepting of somebody, you should be accepting of everybody”.

Funny how some (not specifically picking on you or anyone) can get so defensive and upset fighting for acceptance of one thing while simultaneously they themselves can’t accept others merely for their beliefs… Kind of hypocritical, isn’t it?

Hell yeah! Time to rise up!

You’re looking at Claude, I don’t See Copilot

Edit: ignore me, I finally reviewed the article and is through GH, not actual MS 365 page.

Of course it is… Funny though, bc nobody really uses it at work, so our pricing should theoretically go down… But I doubt it, MS will find a way to make it go up

Amen. Been saying this a while. He knew this shit was coming so he’s was prepared with this Ace up his sleeve.

Step 1: get people addicted, monetize it to no end

Step 2: cover it up and lie about it being fine, spread misinformation of you have to

Step 3: plan a scapegoat tactic as a backup just in case. Maybe 2.

Step 4: buy out politicians who’ll support you when it’s time to take action; like “age verification” as a redirect (as if the gov has ever fine anything promptly!)

Step 5: Get the media to sort of drop coverage to get people to forget about it with other stuff, and watch the lawsuits and trials fade away into the background as there’s no more media coverage for it.

So, birthrate drops, just funnel in more people who don’t know America’s corruption, and now jobs markets are fucked with over-crowding while the billionaire class gets more bodies to leech off of. Great plan.

Maybe it’s a ploy for an intervention 😆

Well it was Mark Zuckerburg who’s made the big push for it… You know, offload responsibility from his platform being addicting and all… Plus, both sides are equally corrupt, so really it’s time to move to something new. Forward, Green, Reform, Libertarian, etc.

Anything to keep the people docile and from rising up!

My wife would just sell my data.

I would be raising hell!

That didn’t matter for me recently. On a site, flights in cart, looked at rental car for <5 minutes and the outbound flights jumped ~$60/ticket in that time “due to demand” when the flight was 80%empty…

Got on my phone, on data (so new browser, new IP) still prices are higher. Hopped on my old phone over VPN to change region, checked out a different leave date, checked a couple, went back to my original date and flights were $40 cheaper (so still $20 more than before) but they gotta know based on Geo IP and time of inquiries it’s probably all the same person, smh.

What a scam!!

That’s not going to happen. They’re going to bring in someone willing to do the dirty work like a Zuck or Altman, and catch up in the data harvesting, but play like they give a shit. “We protect your data from 3rd parties” while hoarding and monetizing it for themselves… They’re not innocent. I’m fact, their no better than Google or Microsoft.

When they stopped being able to convince everyone they needed a new phone every year, or accessories, now they just compensate by selling your data.