Become complacent, make a sub-par product, prioritize Corporate decisions over user experience, do nothing to fix what the users criticize, abuse your control over the OS to double down and try to force it down your user’s throats through increasingly intrusive ways, fail to understand why people hate you. That’s the Microslop way. Its corporate culture, size and dominating position in the market prevents it from making a good product. Large companies like that should be broken up. They are too large for their own, or anyone else’s good.

Seriously, I am forced to use Teams and OneDrive for work and my productivity is constantly held back by the complete lack of basic quality of life features that most FOSS applications made for free by volunteers would have.

Great move by Snapmaker. In considering buying a new printer soon I am very annoyed by how difficult it is to know beforehand how much functionality of a printer is locked behind cloud connectivity that can be remotely disabled at any point. I know Bambu is to avoid absolutely thanks to the very public backlash they got but what about the others?

I know Prusa is a shining example of letting their customers own their devices but they are pricy. I didn’t know Snapmaker had the same kind of mentality until now thanks to that move.

A widget to make the fresh Windows refugees feel right at home

Upgraded to an AMD card and suddenly Linux became perfectly reliable.

The connector is flimsy, will wear out in applications where you connect and disconnect it often and the whole standard is controlled by big tech and they abuse that power to hinder open source efforts.

You have to be in visual range, or radar range if you have one, which is the horizon plus a bit more depending how high above sea level your are and how tall your target is.

If you’re on a ship, unless you’re using an advanced radar that bounces signals against the ionosphere or you have a meteorological phenomena called an inversion which can curve your radar energy over the horizon a little bit, your radar horizon is surprisingly short, something around 12 nautical miles give or take. And the sea is big and Iran is quite far.

This is one big reason why aircraft are used for surveillance at sea. They can go much higher than any ship’s radar antenna mast every could be which significantly expands their radar horizon. They can also scan a huge area relatively quickly as they can travel much faster.

Because if this fuck up, Iran now has the intel that the French carrier is approaching without even having to send an aircraft out to look for it. If they even still have the ability to do so at this point.

But what if what your are looking for is AI generated articles that don’t provide any trustworthy answers or top 10 lists of products that their manufacturers paid the site to figure on the list? Google is still the best for that.

Hopefully this doesn’t give Microslop executives the idea of turning it into a feature to force their users to save their files onto OneDrive

You are correct that they have zero understanding of computers. But what you are missing is that they are consulting “experts” who are essentially just big tech lobbyists.

The problem with that whole situation is the way the law is written the developer is the one held responsible if a child circumvents the check to access adult content. Therefore, developers will have to pay hefty fines unless they:

-1: Have a way to positively make sure the person enters their age is telling the truth; and

-2: Lock this value from being changed by the user afterwards.

Or: Region lock the OS.

One can see how incredibly problematic this is for both privacy and true ownership and control over your own machine. There is also a lot that needs to be figured out in the law such as what will happen when someone inevitably finds a way to hack the system to circumvent it, especially the region lock. Ultimately, big tech has deep pockets and can shrug off the fines but small nonprofit open source projects will be killed by them.

This law is specifically designed to kill nonprofit-run and private software like Linux.

With enshitification nowadays, the fact that they’re nonprofit is the reason why the software is good quality.

Peaceful living as a smoldering skeleton

You forgot to mention that the product they’re sacrificing everything for is widely failing to meet expectations and that they will likely expect taxpayers to bail them out when their investments fail and threaten to take out the entire economy with themselves

IDK if I’m understanding their response correctly in the article but it really sounds like the people affected are left to pay for the repair themselves

That’s a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left their customers hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.

She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.

Heck, I’m running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I’d probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.

Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.

This isn’t new. I remember seeing a promotion for this exact same printer many years ago already. I’d approach it with suspicion.

And yet the “I don’t care that they gather data on me, I have nothing to hide” crowd is still clueless

It is baffling that people hadn’t clued in about this sooner