Consumers are what, less than 10% of MS’s revenue? Most of their income is from cloud (Azure, O365) so they can afford to treat their consumer customers like trash. They don’t give a shit about your 50-150 bucks for a win license because it’s peanuts to them.

The only viable option for consumers is to massively ditch MS products altogether and migrate to alternatives, which used to be in short supply but luckily aren’t anymore.

It’s less that he personally learned anything and more that the Heritage Foundation did, he’s only following their playbook.

The rhetoric that politicians are idiots and they don’t know what they’re doing is also damaging, because it makes people assume stupidity rather than malice.

But it is malice. The incompetence is real, make no mistake, but malice is in fact the end goal.

Always remember: datacenters are uniquely flammable, and most of them have backup generators with loads of fuel nearby…

Behold, the definition of butthurt.

People are fleeing into Linux & MacOS in droves. If this trend holds, Ms will lose majority in ~8 years.

Fuck, there go my plans to use South America as a last possible fallback if shit keeps getting worse.

Yeah this is why I don’t do charity, at least not via any organisation. I’ll give straight to someone who needs it without involving any 3rd parties at all.

Wasn’t there recently some ruckus about a “new” android service google installed to android phones that was supposed to do this? It was all over the news but now I can hardly find a mention.

If they keep this up they might significantly cripple one part of Russia’s nuclear triad.

Worse, they would use it as pretext for “retaliatory” strikes.

Those are still coming, no doubt, but they’ll have a harder time spinning the story.

Cool, mine is 192.168.0.1!

Get fucked

This was about sending a message: “stfu or suffer the consequences”. Hence, subsequent people who encounter similar will think twice about reporting anything.

I’d love to see EU numbers side by side for a fair comparison.

It isn’t even safe today, but people still do it.

Even at the basest level of society that we might fall back to, there will be a need for stores of great value in order to make larger trades. You can’t effectively trade large scale without it. Which might not be relevant right after a full system failure, but definitely afterwards.

So much FUD and complete misinformation here. Gold, first and foremost, is a store of value and a hedge against inflation. It’s a terrible investment. That said, if you bought 10k worth of gold 5 years ago, you would now have 20k. Which is obviously a higher return than most savings products or some actual investments.

It’s a hell of a lot safer than BTC and if society does collapse, it will absolutely retain its value.

I don’t feel important enough for that. Same reason I’m not religious. People claiming a personal relationship with the goddamn creator of the universe are hella conceited.

The 2A folks are overwhelmingly on the side of the oppressors…