Use Linux.
Use LibreOffice.
Use LibreWolf or WaterFox.
Free yourselves.If you’re in the US, soon this will be arrestable for enabling terrorism.
HumanOnEarth announces they will install Linux on all computers going forward
They’ll try to make Linux illegal soon.
Not illegal, rather not free. There is an ongoing effort to switch from GPL licencing to more restrictive licensing, allowing corpos to close the source of their distribution. Redhat-IBM is at work. All this camouflaged behind good intentions like rewriting GNU user land and libs in Rust because memory safety.
Impossible. The cloud will fall. And locking the bootloader of computers won’t work.
I didn’t say they’ll succeed. And it’ll only apply to private users, of course.
They are also inserting AI shit into Notepad too.
Like, good luck getting me off from LibreOffice and Notepad++ assholes.
I miss npp so much on linux. Kate is pretty good though, but need to tinker with it quite a bit to make it fit my workflow. But it’s also really hard to search for solutions, because just searching the Web for “Kate” brings a lot of noise. I wonder why they’ve never thought of it.
Also, I figure that long time linux users probably solve for what I experience as pain points completely differently. Like for example they use vim a lot instead.
Take a look at Notepadqq or Notepad Next.
It is truly shocking how shit Microsoft is under Nadella. It’s like 100× worse than Gates or Balmer. Wild.
Microsoft was always bad. But now that they’ve saturated the market, they need shadier and shittier gimmicks to keep justifying their inflated stock price.
Now they’re trying to sell businesses on AI as a full replacement for worker headcount. It’s a bald faced lie. But with enough money spent on marketing and gimmicks like this…
Balmer and Gates worked their way up, especially Gates from basically nothing. They understood mostly what their customers wanted. But Nadella only understands short term revenue. Not the longtime customers.
What’s really wild is that people put up with this shit.
For me the straw that broke the camel’s back was finding out thatsystem32is owned by the installer user and I’d have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.
And here people are like: “Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought.” While the apologists go: “You can disable those in the registry.”
I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO!The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.
The worst is the stranglehold windows has in the professional world. Shit I’m not even an office worker and I have to deal with ads and now AI just working in the shop and using a PC for Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
Adobe has been getting really bad too. I shouldn’t have to close like 4 different banners, popups, involuntary AI “summary” suggestions every time I open a PDF. The literal only thing I open on adobe is electrical schematics and using acrobat to document changes, etc. I doubt it could summarize drawings exported from AutoCAD and even if it could, why would I even want that? I need to test panels, not have something tell me “this is a schematic”
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And Bazzite, and Fedora, and OpenSUSE.
They are really going balls to the wall with this AI crap, huh?
