I want to leave Windows because regular W10 and W11 are trash.

You are really going to like Linux Mint Cinnamon then. It’s basically Windows but isn’t annoying or hates it’s users

History ended sometime around 1990. It was determined at that time that civilization could not substantially change any further, for better or worse

Life did get substantially worse since 1990 though?

Mass surveillance, rise of tech billionaire class, unprecedented political polarization, KYC-rollout in banks.

Ecological crisis is accelerating with tens of thousands of dead in Europe due to recent heatwaves.

edit: also Germany, Japan, Russia and China openly remilitarizing after 80 years of relative peace. This is really bad.

This has nothing to do with flirting. They harass girls to feel in control and take out their dating frustration on someone else

This won’t help PeerTube become mainstream either.

Hosting videos is extremely expensive, thus there is a financial incentive against hosting a PeerTube instance.

Unless PeerTube fixes the incentives, it won’t be sustainable long-term.

What?

Fairphone costs cheapest in carbon footprint and disruption caused to copper mining communities.

It’s more expensive for you, sure, but it’s the least costly option in grand scheme of things.

It could work in theory as a form of sabotage, but I believe one would need to have great self-restraint to do it correctly.

It’s hard to notice the difference when you are

1. actually hurting AI industry by abusing their free tiers and poisoning training data

2. you rationalize your AI usage by telling yourself “I am not paying so I am in the clear” because you want to larp as freedom fighter without actually sacrificing any comfort

Both subjectively feel very similar.

So I would rather not risk becoming 2nd case and avoid AI altogether, unless you are some hacktivist who actually knows what they are doing.

They never claimed they do it to punish website owners though. I see it as them having found the experience annoying enough to opt out from using the service altogether

This app must have been designed by devil to torture digital minimalists and UNIX philosophy people in the afterlife

At least one security researcher says Edge is the most secure option for Windows users.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/security-privacy-advice.html#browser

62% home ownership in 1960’s for much smaller homes (on average 700 sqft) vs 65% now for an average of 2000sqft

62% -> 65% sounds reasonable.

700 sqft on average -> 2000 sqft on average is suspicious though. It’s possible stats got skewed by the top 1%, who are today richer than ever before, and own ridiculous amount of property. Median sqft perhaps would be more representative

Surely this will make them finally realize it is unsustainable to demand consumer to upgrade their hardware every few years?.. Right? Right??

That’s weird. If they want an OS to tinker with, Windows is the worst option really. Why not Arch or Gentoo or NixOS?

This article’s title is ridiculous. What do you mean ‘why don’t normal people use agentic AI?’ Were they supposed to?

I think there were already some research findings, how software developers tend to drastically overestimate how much AI helped them, while AI was actually hindering their productivity. It could be the same case here.

What AI is really good at is spitting out plausible sounding garbage, pretending it did some comprehensive research on the topic, and making people feel like it’s helpful without neccessarily being so.

Shill harder, we need to deliver more shareholder value

Signal is better, but if the concern is Telegram scanning messages and automatically sending them to the police, that doesn’t seem to happen either. Durov doesn’t care, for better or worse, like Telegram being used for drugs and terrorism. Although Telegram employees themselves could be snooping through your messages, that’s true

She may have overestimated the degree of privacy her DMs had. That’s also on her.

Her fault for being too busy teaching kids and surviving on $40k salary instead of researching perfect OPSEC and going down the digital privacy rabbit hole

Mass surveillance has been around for like, what, 20 years now? How well has it worked out with preventing school shootings?

Passive indiscriminate mass surveillance doesn’t do shit to prevent or stop crime.