To be fair my Windows experience was far simpler than Linux, if less fulfilling. What got me was a combination of constant attacks on privacy, W11 and the enshittification of the UI as well as general Microsoft corporate tomfoolery (have dealt with them for work, not a fan of their monopolistic EEE tactics).
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sazey@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockersEnglish11·1 year agoEven if it becomes impossible to block the ads out I will cover my ears, close my eyes and shout ‘lalala’ to avoid them.
sazey@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in CryptoEnglish78·1 year agoYou have obviously have not heard of forex and the vast quantity of money that flows through it on a daily basis if you think currencies are not traded as commodities, nor have you heard of places like Argentina or Turkey apparently if you don’t know currencies are treated as investments.
There are many many scams in cryptoworld but there is no need to throw out the baby with the bath water as it were. Crypto can and is being used as valid alternative to fractional reserve issued currency; the thriving and resilient darknet proves it so.
sazey@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in CryptoEnglish510·1 year agoI appreciate and applaud anything that can even attempt to separate state and money. That will imho be the best thing for humanity since the separation of state and religion.
sazey@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over TeamsEnglish1·1 year agoIt does a lot but all in a half hearted and IMHO unnecessarily labyrinthian manner, the bloated PoS.
sazey@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over TeamsEnglish3·1 year agoIt’s thrown in with Office licencing and Office/Outlook integration makes it path of least resistance for defunded, over stressed (ie most) IT shops.
sazey@lemmy.worldto Linux@lemmy.ml•Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?6·1 year agoReminds me of the time I had a nvidia GPU laptop and was distro hopping like a rabbit on crack trying to find something stable. Surprisingly enough it was Arch that proved to be the most stable and what I ended up sticking to.
sazey@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expectEnglish1·1 year agoHaha that took me way too long to get.
sazey@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expectEnglish8·1 year agoI know your comment was in jest but the backend of these apps runs on cloud, the frontend is still using your local resources and is usually a bloated piece of poop to boot.
sazey@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expectEnglish1·1 year agoI’m confused, where is ditching 10 mentioned?
That would be sweet but I have never come across such a thing unfortunately!