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On 6/26/2024 3:23 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
> On 2024-06-26 13:27, DFS wrote:
>> On 6/26/2024 1:06 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-26 12:47, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Even you will have to admit it eventually: Microsoft has no 
>>>>> interest in users having any kind of privacy. 
>>>>
>>>> If MS has been 'invading my privacy', I've seen no negatives from it.
>>>
>>> That has to be the stupidest comment I've ever read in this newsgroup. 
>>
>> Dumber than your statement that "Once we moved out [of a haunted 
>> house], we suddenly had no trouble getting pregnant and all of our bad 
>> luck vanished."?
> 
> I stand by that statement.

It's ludicrous.  There are no ghosts.


>>> Because they didn't directly harm you, you consent to them knowing 
>>> everything about you? How is this comment not self-defeating?
>>>>> Their optional telemetry will eventually become mandatory, and 
>>>>> their optional client-side scanning will eventually be enabled by 
>>>>> default. Using any previous operating system of theirs which 
>>>>> doesn't have these "features" will become impossible.
>>>>
>>>> They will, huh?
>>>>
>>>> I know you believe in psychics, but I didn't know you actually were 
>>>> a psychic too!  Congrats!
>>>>
>>>> So tell me: is MS really doomed?
>>>
>>> Microsoft is doomed in the eyes of people who value their privacy and 
>>> their freedoms, including freedom of speech. The lemmings, however, 
>>> will gladly go on with Microsoft's invasions.
>>
>> Last week you were a Windows lemming.  Today you're a Linux freedom 
>> fighter.  From zero to hero in a week!
> 
> I tend to keep an eye on tech news. Doing that is what made me iffy 
> about Microsoft and Apple for as long as it has. I've forgiven their 
> behaviour repeatedly in the past, but it now looks like they're doubling 
> down. They don't even want you to have local accounts because 
> "security!" The same way Apple's client-side scanning was about 
> "security!" and Microsoft's client-side scanning is "security!" You are 
> free to continue to be fooled.

You've seen the light... for the 20th time.



>>>>> Whether you like to admit it or not, you too will use Linux.
>>>>
>>>> VERY doubtful.  Too much crappy hobbyware forced on you, and I 
>>>> DETEST Stallman, the "father" of the GPL.
>>>
>>> As far as I know, Stallman did not create anything other than GCC and 
>>> the FSF. Everything that came after that was influenced by him, but 
>>> not credited to him. 
>>
>> Think about what a sick monster he really is.  He would rather videos 
>> of your child being raped remain available on the Internet because in 
>> his warped brain it's 'censorship' to destroy them.
> 
> I understand his position though I disagree with it.

You "disagree" with it?

Something's really, really wrong with you if you have anything but a 
visceral, almost violent response to a demon like Stallman.

Grow a pair and condemn the foul creature in the strongest terms.  If 
Biden said something like that you'd call for him to be jailed.



>>  > Either way, Linux will survive despite your resistance to it.
>>
>> Together we can beat it:
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> "*I* *GIVE* *UP
>> I am going to be formatting every last key I have with Linux on it and I
>> am quitting this forum. I don't even want to think about this steaming
>> pile of garbage anymore. It was a fucking routine installation on a
>> basic computer and even THAT Linux manages to complete screw up.
>> *I* *GIVE* *UP*."
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Yep, and I am now using the exact distribution that made me react that way.

Is it not a 'steaming pile of garbage' anymore?