I wanted to be a professional illustrator. Nowadays I barely illustrate as a hobby. Although I still enjoy it I don’t really have the skills for it.
I’m a lawyer and a programmer though. For many years I hated being a lawyer, but I would say that I’ve finally reached a point in my life and career where I’m happy with it.
I don’t really like Gnome as a desktop interface. Not sure why but never really adapted well to it.
Love KDE and Cinnamon though. Probably because I was used to Windows interface for years before I started using Linux.
I’ve just tried it, and although the idea is interesting it doesn’t seem to be working as intended.
I’m pretty sure all of these are FOSS, and thy were tagged as proprietary:
And these are also FOSS but were flagged as ‘Unknown’:
And there are others I’m not entirely sure if theyre FOSS or hybrid, that were also flagged as proprietary.
Also not a fan of needing to subscribe to give feedback (like pointing out FOSS alternatives or false positives).
I believe it’s a mix. Both ‘nostalgia goggles’ and straight up facts.
What I mean is that, when we were kids or teenagers we didn’t see things the same way our parents did. They were the ones struggling, and we were pretty much just playing around and complaining of mundane stuff. So it’s hard to tell how much ‘easier’ life was back then… we were just young.
But at the same time I do completely agree that the advancement of technology and growth of USA giant corporations really fucked a lot of things up badly. While back in the day we couldn’t find answers or information to everything so easily, we lived a more ‘natural’ life, where everyone actually expected things to take a while to happen: you had to wake up, literally read the news if you wanted, take the car or bus to the job, and just then you started working, and while working you had to do some research and so on.
Nowadays things either happen immediately or you’re tagged as lazy or something like it. You wake up with a lot of e-mails or message notifications on your smartphone, and people expect you to answer these demands ASAP. It’s not expected anymore that we do each thing in it’s own time anymore, and the volume of work is much bigger because you’re expected to solve problems much faster. This volume of demand and unrealistic expectations definitely generate stress and anxiety, which are huge health issues nowadays.
And the fact that we now realize, thanks to the amount and speed of information we have today, how the industry leads are fucking everyone up without consequences doesn’t help in the slightest, since it leads to a feeling of being powerless and exploited.
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I would guess that Microsoft has to comply to Chinese privacy and data laws, AND that China’s firewall also might block a lot of the telemetry.
I agree nonetheless. They should be using Linux a long time ago.
It seems to me they know what they’re doing: the controversial posts have been nothing but marketing to them.
Up until today I have never heard of it before. But now I’m seeing plenty of discussions around them, most regarding controversies.
That being said, regardless of their political instances (that does seem to be terrible, although I have no interest in diving deeper), there’s nothing there that smells good to me when it comes to what I would expect from a FOSS/Linux project.
That being said, that will possibly be the last time I interact with a post about this. Not interested in giving them any extra attention.