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1. maxlath (maxlath@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Dec-2017 08:31:55 EST maxlath

   Linux: the place where you progressively forget how evil proprietary OS can be, and when rumours of their evilness come back from the other side, you take them for stories to frighten children https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/7h57hd/me_after_2_days_of_windows_10/dqo8k3t/

   1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 26-May-2018 07:01:25 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

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      @maxlath I was trying to explain to someone the other day how Windows is now a remotely managed OS. It's like computing was in the 1960s/70s, I said, in that the server/mainframe/cloud is king and it can push arbitrary stuff onto users. The feudal analogy is not accidental. The Windows user is really peripheral to the system and has no real control over their typing terminal. If Microsoft wants to push an ad onto your desktop or fuck around with settings in the background they can do it.