I begun that boycott a couple weeks back and am not planning on stopping. Most of the stuff you can get from Amazon, you can get from AliExpress at a significantly lower price (they have more variety as well in my experience)

Windows is at least relatively un intrusive with that stuff, MacOS often makes hidden metadata files with the same extension as the files they store info about

I installed an old program the other day that added a Thumbs.db file from 2008 to every folder containing images as it extracted the program files to disk.

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And this is why I’ve never touched anything AI related

they put it in the whale. that is how docker transports things and you cannot change my mind.

It was proposed as a badge, but it originally comes from https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certification-program/amp/

Well for a start, Lemmy doesn’t, y’know, suck.