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yeah that looks creepy as fuck

15% of their revenue just for the fucking CEO (a string of really bad ones at that) is a huge fucking problem.

propaganda matters.

tbf the standard should be mid to late 2000s at this point cmon.

those don’t really want to change their view, and make an effort not to. its more comfortable to keep banging their heads trying to fit their old worldview into a completely different world.

tell me if you ever find out how to even talk with those, if they can even be deprogrammed at this point.

they never got the news “farmers had to get bailed out”. they are put in a carefully controlled information bubble. at least those more out there people you to allude to.

they just know “Trump Was The BEST Commander To Our ECONOMY!” or that “Biden Does Blood RITUALS With BABIES!” or something.

the beauty of foss

ok, mozilla is at least doing stuff we want along with ai garbage now.

what video is it again, ms streisand?

as always with corporate shit

An oligopoly is a market in which pricing control lies in the hands of a few sellers. As a result of their significant market power, firms in oligopolistic markets can influence prices through manipulating the supply function.

I’m considering Macs and Chromebooks to be competitors. Maybe they aren’t since those systems are very locked down, but eh, still shitty and not much practical difference IMO.

wait what did he do? did he become a chud?

I mean, advocating for a twm and terminal for normies is a bold move, but sure.

as long as it gets people to try it and see its not bad.

for now

they already have these companies wiretapped since the early 2000s

they already are.

its been a while since snowden leaked that to us.

i checked the brazilian dell website and they offer ubuntu as a choice. i’m not sure if they are doing it by their own choice or by force of law though.

bolsonaro gutting this law wouldnt surprise me, but i don’t see it as relevant enough (at least right now) for them to even bother glossing over this tbh.

nowadays the install process on ubuntu consists of opening the driver app, selecting the nvidia driver, waiting around 3 minutes and rebooting when prompted.

sometimes things do break, but the install process itself is rarely the issue anymore, thankfully.

i wanted to say we still do but im not sure. its been a while since i shopped for laptops.

in brazil, we used to have a law forcing this to be a thing. back in the laptop days, it used to be reasonably common for people to buy one without with linux, and pirate windows later to save money. or because it was plain cheaper.

it turns out brazil fomented a big userbase for linux for a while there. free market my ass, microsoft is an oligopoly. if this ever gets widespread i’m pretty sure adoption will grow for the simple fact people will at least get to fucking try it. microsoft wouldnt take it kindly though.