People can safely use Windows 10 online for the next decade as long as they follow basic online safety.

This is a fucking braindead take. A few months, a year, maaaybe? But a decade? No chance in hell.

The simple answer is that the gospel wasn’t working as well as it had been, so they had to change it up to continue attracting people. Cults are basically popularity contests, and you can’t win if you’re scaring everyone away.

I am sure there are some people who just kind of don’t give a fuck about computers who that will be accurate for, but I feel like it’s a much smaller minority than Microsoft seems to think that it is.

You’re definitely overestimating the size of your own bubble. The vast, vast, vast majority of people won’t even notice, forget caring or actually doing anything about it.

I’m mildly interested in the technology, but I sure as hell wouldn’t go anywhere near Meta-branded anything. For starters, based on the demo, the product fucking sucks, but then there’s also the privacy and fascism issues.

Why didn’t you answer the question, if you’re so sure every other one is wrong?

I still have a FAT32 external drive that this (very) rarely still bites me 😫 there’s nothing important on it, so I’ve been lazy

This isn’t even a new thing… it’s literally the US’s core strategy in Central and South America for at least the past 3 decades.

I wouldn’t choose to, if I didn’t have to, I guess? But I wouldn’t say I have a lot of trouble if it’s too hot for one

I’m sure most of them are actually retired, but all? No chance

They’re buying 2 (along with 31 other vehicles) to make sure that our bombs blow them up. They will, and that’s all that’s going to happen.

There are enough real issues rn that y’all really need to do better at avoiding these distractions…

One of them questions superman, the other strives to destroy him at every opportunity.

Reddit’s primary source of revenue is ads, that is a simple fact. What metrics do you think matter when it comes to ad revenue?

I ain’t using a Microsoft product

Literally nobody asked you to use any product

That’s the point… it’s literally explained in the text - Clippy sucked and everyone hated it, but guess what? It’s better than anything we have now, all of which can be turned off at a moment’s notice for no reason at all, with absolutely no recourse. And when it does work, it’s usually either lying or its only goal is manipulate you (or both).

lol, why use a VPN at all if you’re going to allow yourself to be fingerprinted like this?

Screw Akon, I guess

…did you want him to come out even though the fans were actively evacuating? Yeah, that wouldn’t cause any issues with the evacuation at all

Do you think he called the threat in himself…?

Start with a garage sale, so you don’t have to ship as much shit. It’s a major hassle when there’s a lot. Based on what’s left, you can either sell or donate.

NextDoor, facebook marketplace are decent local alternatives to eBay, but you’ll have to deal with a lot of annoying haggling.

…you’re joking, right? There is not a company in the world that is happy to ignore 1/100th of their revenue disappearing.

Is it going to kill reddit? Of course not. Are they “100% unaffected?” Of course not.

100% unaffected? It makes their data worth a lot less for AI training. Even if they keep comment history, these are edits - how do you determine which edit to use? Using all of them poisons the data, and picking one risks doing the same.

On top of that, reddit has quickly become a non-source for opinions… I used to append “reddit” to any search where I wanted candid feedback, but absolutely would never do that these days. That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue. Reputation is virtually the only thing that matters for search, and Reddit’s reputation has been sliding for years.

…is that actually true, though? US tech is more software than hardware.