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StraightArrow

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I can’t believe Micro$oft is still trying to pull this shit after it was fined for this in the European Union.

Hopefully, they’ll fine them again, because this is unacceptable.

No, I don’t use Windows, but people who use it and are less tech savvy should not be jumping through so many hoops to make the switch

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Holy crap, now I can’t sleep after seeing this :-/

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Sad news.

I tried Omegle years ago close to when it came out and it was fun entertainment for a short while, though I didn’t stick around because one of the issues was that if you ended up striking an interesting and wholesome conversation, you’d never meet this person again and this bothered me.

Reading its epitaph shows there was a lot of work done on it to maintain it and catch evil users, so I’m much more impressed now.

RIP Omegle, you were a nice experiment!

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That’s a very reasonable point of view, but couldn’t they still achieve this by creating some filter that says “family” within the Disney+ app so that they can still isolate toons and family movies and series?

However, it’s also true that my experience with all these sites is that content is poorly arranged and searchable, so keeping them separate might have simplified this

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He was Bankman, now he’s Fried

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A lot of people kept trying to tell me Discord was the new Reddit and a new ultimate messenger type software. I tried it a bit and found it lacking on both sides.

Perhaps it will swallow the rest of the world, but I’m happy with Lemmy and other messengers.

I’ll give it another go from time to time

Edit: grammar

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I’ve never used Twitter, nor liked it, but in 2010 I had to observe that it was indeed useful when it became one of the primary ways for people to communicate during the Arab Spring.

Since then I kept not being into it, but at least I thought it had some important value I had not seen.

Now it’s all locked up, so it really has become useless (and I haven’t even talked about the rampant disinformation)

RIP Twitter

Edit: fixed grammar

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We’re so sooooooooo fu**ed…

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When someone says this, it’s a recurring joke, but when I’ve read your comment, it’s the first time I actually think it may happen.

Well, I don’t expect a takeover at all, but perhaps I envision something like this year’s Reddit migration: I imagine some individuals or companies won’t stand for it and switch to Linux.

So maybe in one year Linux on desktop will go from 2% global installations, to 3% or 4% which would be a colossal uptake!

(I admit I’ve not checked the current percentage of Linux installations, it was 2% years ago, but maybe it’s already higher)

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