Simply abandon the US and move the forum to civilization.

They show me an ad, and they are out. It is that simple. Luckily, my life does not depend on streaming.

I think one can simply replace “Reddit” with “online” here. They might have done their studies on Reddit, but I expect the same behavior in any online place.

Reminds me of a visit to a British castle. Parking was inside the grounds, and there were two picnic areas. One close to the parking lot, one rather far away. Our (local) friends decided on a picnic spot at the far end, and I went all the way to the car to get the stuff.

On my way to the car I saw a single family setting up their lunch on the picnic place next to the parking lot and grumbled why we could not have used this spot instead.

On my way back, I learned why. The family with the little kids were sitting on the blanket, besieged by the duck Mafia from the nearby pond who demanded their share.

Just a friendly gesture among right-wing autocrats.

The good thing is that most of those “arcane magic things” in the terminal can simply be copied and pasted into said terminal. Whereas finding an obscure option on a windows program setting three requestors and five buttons deep is a nightmare, especially if your UI is not set to English.

For them, adding the AI is probably cheaper then fixing the UI.

I did not invent “recall”.

Have you ever seen how long it takes for a tree to grow?

I would not mind if they toned it down to what other people do for a watermark. As in: if you really look for it, it is noticeable, but it does not obstruct actual contents, or makes it harder to read.

And if they don’t want it to be copied or scanned, just drop in a few Eurions.

If I have documents on my harddisk, they are private. If a windows 11 user has documents on their harddisk, they are not.

If they are still using windows, their privacy and data safety was never of importance to them, anyway.

Or just get the data back from the backups they made.

European data on European servers is fine, as long as American agencies can’t just access data on those (which one cannot rule out with American companies).

The US takes tariffs on the good stuff? Looks like there will be more stuff for us in the future.

They have to give s shit, because they are ultimately responsible for the handling (and abuse, if it comes to that) of the data, and as European companies they are in easy reach of the European law.

Under Trump 2.0, some Europeans fear that storing their data in the bit barns of Microsoft, Google and AWS is no longer safe

It never was, and all the laws that were installed to make this appear legal were nothing but meaningless fig leaves.

Have you ever heard of sparse files, and how Linux and Windows deal with zips of it? You’ll love this.

Not mine. There are a lot of reasons not to use Windows, and this is just one of them.

A project I am supporting just dropped a mail on that subject. They will handle all non-US deliveries including Canada and Mexico through other countries. Originally, they wanted to handle everything from the US. Good for us, as we expect to have a relay in the EU so we don’t even have to deal with customs.

In some corners, the fediverse is not better. Overreaching mods are wherever they can feel their power.