representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir

I know my Gandalf like your average LOTR fan, but boy do I wish death upon these people…

Don’t give them ideas. Next they’ll cut the blood stream to your brain.

Fairphone has really gone off the deep end. 6 phone models in what? less than 12 years? That’s what they call dedication to sustainability? Really? They used to say the most sustainable phone is your old phone, assuming you can continue to use it. Yet - my Fairphone 1, still in good working order hardware-wise, I had to “scrap” because no more SW updates. When my FP2 hardware (charging port) eventually failed, they no longer sold the relevant spare parts.

What good are exchangeable parts, if they are removed from the shop around the time that a well-treated phone might need them?

It’s the thing that the only person who can know for sure you have it is you yourself. If you have to ask, I might have to assume you could be a biological machine.

Except that wouldn’t explain conscience. There’s absolutely no need for conscience or an illusion(*) of conscience. Yet we have it.

• arguably, conscience can by definition not be an illusion. We either perceive “ourselves” or we don’t

Get fucked Microshit!

I don’t see how this is worse.

Sadly I took my claim from observation of the real world. And I wasn’t even talking about machine learning systems yet. Some teenagers and young adults nowadays are already walking zombies hooked to tiktok.

Trust me I have used Windows long enough to know what I am talking about. It has zero features that can’t be replaced with an overall net positive. People who defend modern Microsoft products just suffer from Stockholm or Dunning Kruger syndrome

Here, you dropped an /s

While I don’t necessarily disagree, wasn’t it mostly less bad than the rural areas all around?

Ah, okay - if Windows remains, they are not nearly exploiting the cost saving potential. That explains the low number.

I love software development, I hope they have such people as well. In terms of maintenance though, my (reasonably comolex) software is nearly maintenance free and much easier to operate. I believe that can be true for all custom developments, generic solutions are more complex by their nature of having more functions than needed in any specific use case.

Munich racist shitheads (a.k.a. CSU) absolutely do love that sweet “freedom money” a.k.a. bribes though. Corrupt fuckers…

That sounds like a ridiculously lowballed amount. Also, working with open source tools should increase productivity and decrease brainrot among workers in the public sector. Using Microshit kills brain cells. Not even joking, I actually think it makes users fucking dumb.

Whelp. Same thought :(

Did you mean: Move fast and murder children?

nice try. get fucked, microsoft.

Is it against the terms of service / use? If not - fair play to them. It’s stupid, but it’s easy to fix by adjusting the terms & conditions, and when they are in violation, completely deny all services to their ip range.

Decent human beings in every country find that word offensive (with the exception of the people of color slang culture saying it among each other). The people not finding it offensive are mentally ill hate-filled racists.

my apologies, I was actually thinking of “unlocking the bootloader”, rooting a device without an unlocked bootloader didn’t even occur to me. And since unlocking a bootloader is non-trivial by design, that would prevent any such accidents.