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  _ANYTHING_ cloud-connected - your doorbell, your security system, even _all f\*\*king post-2006 vehicles, regardless of manufacturer_ - are suspect. And are highly likely to be actually spying on you. I’ve been working with computers since 1982, on the Internet since 1988, on the Web since 1992, and in the IT industry since 1997. The proportion of average people who don’t realize how much of their stuff is exposing them, and by how much, is frankly astounding. It’s almost 100% of normies who a...

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  “Capitalism innovates”

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  The only things I have delivered to me are packages and envelopes through the mail. Granted, I am GenX, but I can’t recall a single time in the last half a decade where I’ve had anything like food delivered. Or used the services of any kind of gig company. And I simply can’t think of any benefit of doing so. It’s horrendously expensive, and simply not worth the expense.

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  No-one. Absolutely no-one. If I get widowed tomorrow, imma gonna stay single for the rest of my days. Not only am I edging into that age where I am becoming increasingly cranky and unwilling to change for someone else (I have changed enough for my wife of 30 years), but I have also been keeping a light finger on what’s happening out there between the sexes, and _holy shite_ that’s become one hell of a mess that I want absolutely nothing to do with. I mean, the door isn’t going to be barred a...

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  Finally, the bean counter steps down so that an engineer can take the reins again. I mean, at least he didn’t fuck things up like so many other bean counters have. But he was only ever a bean counter.

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  When young people face a system *explicitly designed* to extract as much wealth out of them as possible, nerfing their economic potential well into adulthood via crushing debt, is such a response really that unexpected?

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  While it takes about 8-16 hours of concerted effort, there are ways to castrate Windows into a mild approximation of what it was before. The big question mark is Windows 12… and whether AI and spyware/malware features such as Recall will be baked into core functionality such that it will be impossible to remove or reliably deactivate. I’m still with Windows for now, owing to requirements that have no non-Windows alternative (which include supporting and actually opening client data files for...