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That seems terribly extreme. Its not like its a bomb that is obviously for blowing people up. Someone made something with some cool applications, then some guys with many times more money and resources than anyone should be allowed to have, took the idea and ran with it toward a bunch of psychotic ends.

The problem isn’t that people can use good things for bad purposes, nor is it the people that make or improve those things. The root cause is that western society is currently structured in a way that ends up rewarding certain types of madness, and the reward structure is set up such that individuals can get a vast undue amount of influence and power. Under these conditions, it is natural that even a tiny number of such individuals can overtake the system like a single cancer cell can eventually kill someone. All of these alarming things going on for over 60 years are symptoms of that societal illness. Please don’t blame scientists for sciencing.

Also, if something does break, it is never impossible to fix it if you are willing to dig and tinker until you find it.

In Windows, there are things that can break that are not documented or accessible, so you literally can encounter things that cannot be fixed by the end user. That’s where the common saying “nuke & pave” got applied to Windows troubleshooting, since you often have to nuke Windows and pave over it with a reinstall to fix a problem.

Its harder to miss in the book because it is in print, spelled the same and capitalized and everything.

The other problem is that Ubuntu is the “How do you do, fellow kids?” of FOSS operating systems.

I… but…

Did the system requirements screen at least warn you that you need wholly unrelated 3rd party software for it? Its like if I was trying to load up QuickBooks and it was like “Please insert slice of aged cheddar into drive A: to proceed.”

I realize its not a perfect analogy-- lots of people like aged cheddar.

He got that off his XP machine he was talking about! 😂

So only marginally worse than Windows 11, then, and with such impressively low system requirements!

It is, but the growth is not uniform around the globe. The population growth is inversely correlated with national development, though. That means the population is growing most in places where Internet access is most out of reach, and population growth is actually already negative and accelerating in many nations with widespread Internet access.

But… tons of browsers have that.

I bet it really was on! A lot of Windows programs install companion apps that aren’t highly visible, but run in the background all the time to do things like load up some of the main program’s libraries to make the app seem to start faster when you run it, as well as check for updates on its own, phone home about whatever they want, and watch to make sure it is the default application vs any competing apps on the system with similar functionality, etc.

Note that a lot of that functionality is of little too no benefit to the user, but the app is shamelessly using the user’s stuff without really asking, including sometimes to the point where it makes your computer run worse.

My theory is that they think that, with world-scale financing, testing, and iterating, they can get this thing to do a lot of work that is currently exclusively in the purview of humans today. I believe that some of the wealthiest among us tolerate the rest of us sharing their air because, for now, they must, and the second they can replace us with obedient machines, they will.

If I am right about that, then this entire hype cycle and seemingly endless funding rounds and unabated lending Ouroboros Ponzi schemes makes more sense. They’re not delusional that the product works better than it does, they are desperate for the holy grail of greed: not having to ever share anything with anyone ever again.

Ahh, late to market in a flooded field with at least one law of physics preventing it from ever working acceptably. Good job, Jeff!

That may be, but using Denuvo is not free, and the more invasive implementations affect performance more, and by extension reviews and system requirements. I don’t believe you will see a huge uptick for those reasons alone.

Depending on what they’re hosting, it could still be cheaper. My company wants to move a bunch of our old “tech debt” servers to AWS from the physical rack they’re in now. The estimated AWS cost for that hosting is about the same as replacing 1/6 of the entire server infrastructure every month.

There is no sound fiscal reason for us to do that, and probably likewise for many others, but Amazon is a nice, big famous company that makes an excellent scapegoat for bad planning, I guess.

That seems to be exactly the point. They actively reminded Reddit that people come there because of the stuff they wrote, not anything Reddit did. Your comment validates their reasoning.

Their competitors are on a rocket propelled ride to the dumps. If they want to exceed them, they need only release security fixes and nothing else.

What they’re doing instead is trying to out-garbage them, which is impossible. Everybody got a plan to out-garbage Microsoft til they get Windows 11ed in the face.

I feel like almost everything can be done with Kate if you find the right setting. I think you can get it to knit you a sweater!

That’s the thing. You can’t just conditionally spy on people only when they’re doing evil acts. You’re either surveiling innocent people or you’re not.

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