This, but unironically.

“We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.”

Thank you daddy Microsoft for still letting me click “no” on your invasive popup ad with a dark pattern to make me change my system settings.

That’s not what that word…you know what, fuck it. I give up. Enshittification now just means “becoming worse” and I won’t be able to stop that.

“Or you can just purchase any of those features permanently”

This fact, hidden somewhere in the middle, makes the entire article pointless.

Every Windows version was shit when it came out, then became good through updates by the time the next version came out.
Except for Windows ME and 8, which were just shit.

It already is, but it isn’t mandatory, yet.

Environmentalists don’t like it when you bury too many sharks.

You don’t know what your ISP-provided router does exactly. It may let some traffic through from the outside. It may get an over-the-air firmware update or config change at any time from your ISP. It definitely has well-known, unfixed vulnerabilities.

Also, if you rely on NAT, you have to have 100% trust in all devices that are inside your network.

Thank you for your valuable contribution.

Why does the article specifically mention that she’s black?

If they charged users any amount of money there wouldn’t even be 400000 of them anymore.

The users get a service that costs hundreds of millions to maintain for free.
And no one is forcing them to post valuable content without compensation.

There’s a name for free software with proprietary bits added: Proprietary software

No, they are all available at no cost. Only Firefox is free software.

This raises concerns about using AI in military and diplomatic decision-making.

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

it’s now fully focused on “our mission beyond iMessage” and building “a universal, multi-network chat app.”

Throw it on the pile with all the others.

Holy shit, thanks!

Linux will be there for people who choose to dedicate hundreds of hours a year to the hobby of computers.

And my grandma. She’s been running Linux just fine for the past 3 years. I don’t think she even knows what an OS is.