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I tried switching to Linux many years ago (forgot what distro). It was hell.

I don't remember the specifics anymore, but I remember encountering issues almost every step of the way. Driver support, not being able to find the right buttons, etc. Searching for fixes usually led me down a rabbit hole of "oh cool this user on this forum said in another thread that I just need to install Gobbledegook... But what is it and how do I install it?" and of course a bunch of things require CLI which I'm not fantastic at. Unfortunately I gave up after a week.

Compared to that, Windows really "just works". I have had my share of frustrations, but it's usually with stuff that's comparatively an edge case when compared to the problems I had with Linux. I don't like that I'm giving money/data to a megacorp, but the price of that is convenience. I don't churn my own butter, I don't build my own car, I don't want to think too much about how my OS works under the hood.

I hope this makes less people buy used Pelotons which in turn makes Pelotons less desirable.

Yeah everyone already knows this, execs aren't dumb, they just wanted to use it to quietly lay off people.

Anyone who cared would already be off Twitter.

Don't forget that he was born as James Donald Bowman, and JD Vance is his preferred name.

Keep that in mind when he attacks people with preferred names and deadnames trans folks.

"The most secure system is a system that's not live. Crowdstrike, bringing you the best-in-class security."

I know the general narrative is "Google bad", but this seems like a healthy thing?

First of all, if this is a way for employees to report privacy incidents, that's a good thing.

Second, given the enormous reach giggle has, the fact that it has "thousands" of privacy incidents collected over many years isn't a large percentage at all.

So... Every new device will now have a default password of P@ssw0rd! I guess

I hope to God you wouldn’t be gleeful at me getting fired

I wouldn't be "gleeful", but I can definitely see why the company was within their rights to fire you.

This is like those nutbags who shut down a highway to protest the environment or something, then accuse the police of being un-environmental when they're invariably arrested.

first of all, you lost me when you pointed to reddit.

second, they protested not just within the office, but in the personal office of one of the higher-ups. If you blockaded your CTO's office as a means of protesting world hunger, I don't think that would go well for you either.

I don't think peertube will succeed in scaling because video streaming and transcoding takes so much more resources to run than lemmy, and I can't see volunteers doing this for nothing in return in the long run.

Tens of thousands of lemmy users can be hosted on hundreds of dollars per month; I bet it's 10x more for peertube.

I've never had an issue with any of the changes Facebook has made over the past 5 years.

That's because I haven't used facebook at all.