Kind of strange that they abbriviated “to” with “2”.

Even stranger that I still got it right. Unless you’re messing with me. In which case, fair play. I’m totally clueless sometimes.

Drag and drop worked on windows 3.1. That was like the whole thing. “LOOK WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW!”

At this point, I’m fairly sure pissing people off is the point with Windows 11. It’s full of AI no one wants, refuses to officially run on most hardware that people already have, despite running just fine on that same hardware UNofficially, dropped support for drag and drop, doesn’t let you move the taskbar.

And thats not even to mention the fact that it monitors you, and reports back to HQ with screen grabs and usage activity.

Oh look, ZorinOS, just one singular distro, had 1.6 million downloads in the past 2 months.

Wait, is there any special thing that happened 2 months ago? Oh right. Windows 10 support ended, and microsoft told its userbase “fuck you, you can’t get support for windows 10, and this computer can’t update to windows 11. This computer is now trash!”

Suddenly all these youtube videos pop up “Is your PC unable to install windows 11? Try linux!”

And these videos don’t try to sway you to one distro or another. They point out a few big hitters like mint or ubuntu. I can’t imagine them specifically naming zorin, unless it’s a zorin centric video. But I’m talking about the flood of “try linux” videos that popped up in October.

And that 1.6 million is JUST zorin. That’s the runoff. I don’t have numbers, or sources, but gut instinct tells me that if Zorin had 1.6 million downloads, Mint must have had like 5 million minimum. Every video always reccomends Mint. It’s probably overtaken Ubuntu at some point as most used distro.

And all of this, every single bit of user loss has NOTHING to do with linux. Users are angrily switching. Not happily. They feel abandoned, and forced to switch.

If Microsoft either extended Windows 10 support, or allowed Windows 11 to be installed on reasonable hardware, this linux boom DOES NOT HAPPEN. This is Microsoft saying “Yeah bitch, money is tight! Go buy another computer, loser! You’ll do what we say, and there’s nothing you can do to stop us!”

That’s when users switched to linux. This is pure hubris from Microsoft. It would be interesting if somehow we could get a combined number of EVERY distros doenload numbers.

Is E2EE end to end encryption?

Did you see how the ceremony went? Trump just grabbed the award like he was the grinch stealing a present. Then he put the thing on his own neck, and stood there like a dork.

“Look at me! I’m the bestest president ever!”

No. You’re a dork, who just created the first ever FIFA whatever award, because you DIDN’T actually win the peace prize anyone actually gives a damn about. You didn’t win the real one because you don’t know what PEACE means. Peace isn’t ramping up agencies who’s sole job is to kidnap people off the street. You’ve done nothing to promote peace in our times. You’re not deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize. So now you’re standing there like a dork.

Everybody laugh at Trump! Look how embarrassing he looks!!! Hahahahaha!!!

Alright, alright. We’ve had our fun, but I do feel the need to appologize.

…The Grinch is actually a pretty solid guy. He gets undeserved hate. An entire town belittles him, and bullys him for being different. Fuck that town! Stand with Grinch!

What? You thought I was going to appologize to Trump? Fuck off! Fuck Trump!

Yeah! His wife should totally hook up with a mom who wants to fuck!

There wasn’t. They started in 1889 as an illicit gambling company. Selling cards designed for illegal gambling, and intending to be sold to various organized crime organizations. Mainly the Yakuza.

In terms of video games, even with their first console, they had a monopoly on the video game market, and forced publishers to bend over and take it.

Wasn’t until the genesis got popular that publishers had even a viable alternative.

That’s just a common misconception amongst raccoons.

He was actually, translated to english, saying “No no…no no no…no no no no…” upon seeing what was happening in Auschwitz.

Didn’t the nazis not only use it, but also invent it?

I miss 1919. Just after the great war, not yet into prohibition or the great depression.

…fart.

I vote for “a big giant astroid to end it all”

…what? Are we not discussing how who we’re going to vote for in 2028?

F**K THE DOPPLER EFFECT!

Wait wait wait wait…I’m pretty good at catching things. You’re saying I could get a drive by kitten adoption? That sounds super fast, efficient, and then I’d have a kitten on my way home from work!

Mega Man?

…but how?

No no no. It’s darker because we turned the clocks forward a few months ago. Now it’s pitch black outside at 5:30. Feels like midnight.

Yeah. A moderator of fuck_ai is using ai.

No. The likely outcome is this. I’m going to use fake numbers for the sake of demonstrating a concept.

Samsung spies on you. From the data, they can harvest $500 million dollars throughout Texas tv watchers sending info back to South Korea.

Texas says “Hey! Whoa! You can’t do that! You better stop or we’ll fine you $20,000 dollars!”

Samsung says “Ok”, and keeps doing it. Pays the fine, and takes it to court. They lose the case, but cost Texas $15,000 of court costs just to win. Then they keep doing it.

Now Texas thinks twice about charging the fee, because last time they only got $5,000 after defending themselves in court.

Meanwhile Samsung just views it as the cost of doing business. And carries on.

Oh people like you make my head hurt. Not because you’re wrong, because you’re not. You’re entirely right here.

The reason people like you make my head hurt is because you live in this self isolated bubble where you think everyone else is mentally on the same page as you.

You’re baffled that anyone would agree to that checkbox, because anyone who reads it would understand as you understand that it’s not in your best interest.

Whereas I’M baffled that you think hardly anyone reads the EULA of anything.

Google could literally put in their EULA “user agrees to chop off their genitals and walk barefoot on hot coals”. People would still agree and check yes. Why? Because they never read it. They just click the thing that lets them do the thing and use the thing. Thats as far as 99% go with EULAs.

I’ve watched people like you in person complain that everybody doesn’t do things their way. And while that way is, in general, a better way than is currently being handled, it all falls apart on one key aspect to not understanding the world. That important key being that the world does not see things through your eyes. They do not think of things from your perspective. But instead of taking action to create a world with better ideas being practiced, you sit on the sidelines, watching as the world does what the world will do, and thats be influenced by others. That is what humanity has always been. That’s what it will always be. But in the last 200 years, instead of being influenced by the ideas of a community upbringing, and structure, and morals, it is now, and for all of our lives, been influenced by the ultra rich. The 1%.

We’ve fallen into a world where a persons worth is equal to their net worth. A world where celebrities and ultra rich businessmen are celebrated rather than shunned. Entire genres of music where the sole message is “I have money, therefore bitches fuck me”. And the masses flock to it, because they have adopted that message as their own.

Here you sit. Not having fallen for the basic tricks that are played on society. That alone gives you a huge step up, to rise above the glass ceiling, break through, and bring changes needed to this world.

Instead, you ponder why no one else recognizes there is a glass ceiling. You question why others aren’t doing things the way you would, while offering no resistence of substance.

Everyone wants to complain about shrinkflation, but nobody wants to stop buying the product. If they change the formula, or the price, or the portion size, or whatever, and suddenly they have 0 purchases, things go back how they were real fucking quick. It is up to us, as the ones who see what is happening to educate those around us. To filter out the static noise of the internet’s social media. To teach our loved ones that they are being ripped off. Stop buying “smart” tv’s. Teach those around you to only buy dumb tv’s. And if there’s no dumb tv’s on sale, then there’s no tv’s to buy. And if they keep not selling dumb tv’s, you keep not buying. You teach those around you to keep not buying.

This is how you fight the war against the elite. Not with guns, but with wallets that refuse to open. They can’t take our money unless we agree to buy their goods.

But we’ll never get to that point from the sidelines.

I have so many unanswered questions.