funnyThing7

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I am certainly considering it every now and then. Already use it for main desktop usage. And I hear good things about Proton, but I really like ease of usage of Windows for everything gaming related. It somehow reminds me too much of my working job, when trying to figure out how a certain game needs to be started in Linux.

funnyThing7

5 lat temudiscuss

Not the authorities perhaps, but it is already happening in some degree: Windows Defender sending “samples” or unknown binaries to the cloud to analyze them. I am extremely bothered by this and try to disable this “feature” as much as possible. As always with Windows, you have to aggressively tweak system settings to permanently disable the constant reminders “Oops we have detected suboptimal settings, please turn on every privacy invading feature for your convenience”. We can only hope MS doesn’t abuse the samples for other purposes, but given their and other big techs track record, we can assume there are additional parties interested in the submissions.

funnyThing7

5 lat temudiscuss

Why does this country still have the best alternative to big tech mail providers (Fastmail)? Maybe it doesn’t matter that much since email is open to the world anyway. I would like to vote with my wallet, but in the end I also want my mail to arrive without to much hassle. That means avoiding self-hosting and obscure providers..

funnyThing7

5 lat temudiscuss

Makes me wonder why they have to pay 15b in the first place. If it’s indeed a no-brainer for apple, the deal could be made with far less money?

funnyThing7

5 lat temudiscuss

“I believe not a lot of users know about this button, especially because Chrome doesn’t want to show it by default.”

Damn right. You can bet you ass Google doesn’t want to actively push users away from bloated pages filled with ads.

funnyThing7

5 lat temudiscuss

For a very long time in the Netherlands you could download movies and music from unauthorized sources, as you were indirectly paying content creators because of “copy taxes” on data drives, burnable discs etc. It was sort of a loophole but it was completely legal. Those were the days.

Then suddenly the highest court disallowed it. Guess what, we still pay the copy tax.

Clarification: The copy tax was meant to compensate copyright owners for consumers making copies (for private use) of purchased media. It was widely interpreted as to allow downloading from the internet as well (even from pirated sources).

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