Micro$oft, as we used to say in the old times…

Yeah I honestly liked this text too.

No it was part of the request actually :)

Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?

All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.

Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.

Cost of doing business.

The Fastmail calendar is pretty good. Just a random page about them: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/shared-calendars/

Shit didn’t work. :)

It’s not too hard. The most important things are web search and email. I still use Google Maps. But I don’t want my private emails and searches at a company who is user hostile and preditory.

Basically they have made themselves kings and everyone else are peasants. Now they are dividing the land between them.

It may be the last few years of the free web because of Google. Their goals are clear.

Please switch to Firefox, another search engine and another email provider…

Being born rich is almost certainly a requirement to start with. There must be a lot of non famous brilliant people without a public voice like the clowns, Musk and Trump and Zuck and all the others.

It’s difficult but worth the time if you have it. No other language creates programs with such guarantees for not having common memory bugs and performance like c.

I loved it personally. Tech is in a awful state right now and it’s correct to try and joke about it while we all lose decades of what previous generations built up as protection against these bastards.

Yeah I’m at that stage too. I used to have a lot of time for projects but as an adult, I really have to be selective with my time and energy.

I don’t know if you understand what military funded means… It’s basically the military paying these guys to make something they can use in the military.

There is no doubt in my mind at least that all cute robots, useful AI, and other new things are just the public tip of the iceberg kind of a thing, to make people think it’s something positive and not be afraid.

The most advanced things will be used by law enforcement and military to control and monitor the populations in secret.

So while I like tech, I’m also convinced that humans are going to use it to make the planet horrible to live on, to the degree that “don’t get children” is the best advice ever.

This is typical of Windows in general. You are basically a guest in your own computer, asking for permission to do something from Microsoft, or in this case, Nvidia.

They are tarded actually, in constant need to be in the center of attention, and people talking about them. Seemingly no good human qualities whatsoever, but a lot of intellectual problem solving skills, which they apply only to make themselves richer and more powerful.

They could apply their problem solving skills and money to improve life for humans on the planet but they don’t have the consciousness to do so.

What a waste.

At least people in open source are trying to work together to build an alternative to the walled gardens and preditory ad platforms we call the internet today.

The EU has been really great lately. Gdpr laws are protecting us from all of these shitty preditory services that Americans will be the first to sign up on.

Yup it has the potential to let people communicate and enjoy time together without big corps in the middle.

I don’t think there will be a massive influx of new users. People who care about not supporting reddit has already moved over. :) There would be little point waiting for reddit clients to shut down before starting to explore Lemmy.