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That’s actually already a thing potentially, TV and even appliance makers have been fielding using meshnet tech to spy on users regardless of if they’re connected to the web or not for a while now.

Assuming they don’t start using meshnet to spy on you anyways.

I’m an old head, having daily-driven Linux since 2012, and so far it’s been great. And the current pathetic state of Windows further reinforces my resolve to not go back to running that OS, or when or if I do end up running it, only doing so in a VM.

No, the US needs to really heavily regulate AI before it destroys every line of work other than slinging a mop or working a skilled trade, and before it destroys everyone’s water supply and potentially the power grid itself.

In fact, if the EPA wasn’t gutted, AI companies would be in deep shit right now for how they’re ravaging the environment with their datacenters currently.

Oh shit, who would’ve guessed Meta tried to abuse their userbase and then sweep it under the rug… /sarcasm

Of course they’d do this, this is fully expected behavior for them.

Then I booted into Windows and in less than 10 minutes was fed up the whole OS. I realized I had to look up things just as often as I was on Linux, but in Linux it was because I didn’t know where it was, where as on Windows it was actively hidden from me and fighting me every step of the way. Windows is in no way easier, It’s just the struggle you’ve gotten so used to fighting with every single day that you’ve forgotten it exists.

I’m not even going to sugarcoat it, Windows treats you like you’re a freakin’ idiot, and that applies to all SKUs, although the Home SKU is the absolute worst of the bunch about treating its users like they’re too dumb for their own good.

Linux, and also BSD too for that matter, at least actually respects its users’ intelligence, because Windows sure as hell doesn’t.

Not to mention for-profit schools, at least in the US.

For anticheat.

Not for kernel-level stuff, shit like this requires a baremetal Windows install generally.

Or, you know, paper.

• That’s what desk/workspace scanning in the most extreme cases is meant to detect. This is why I really don’t like online schooling, because in the absolute worst case, your school will literally scan your place.

You know what would be a really good way to show if your students learned your course material? Let them show it with a practical test of some kind…

If agentic AI is a security risk, why the hell is MS trying to force it in as an integral part of Windows, then? I mean, unless they want people to get malware…

Assuming MS don’t eventually tweak the activation system to kill MAS altogether and deactivate pirated Enterprise/IoT and LTSC/LTSC IoT installs in the process.

Sebo stuff is also built really well too, or it better be given it’s commonly abused in commercial settings; think hotels and schools and the like, plus bypass designs like what Sebo typically uses mean sucking things up like coins won’t break your machine, vs. direct-air designs like what Kirby uses in which sucking up hard objects will break your machine.

Just buy a normal vacuum since those can still be used without web connectivity. Avoid anything made by TTI if you want your shit to last though. Also, avoid Kirby and Rainbow due to their scammy business model and extortionate pricing (seriously, quad figures for a vacuum is ridiculous even without the scammy business model).

Given BSD is supposed to be a complete package while Linux has a separate kernel and userland, that’s probably why.

Do you think IBM wouldn’t make Red Hat completely proprietary if they had the chance?

Adding to this, Google would make Android fully proprietary in a heartbeat if they could, given they’re already closing down more and more portions of the AOSP.

And conceivably all it would take to turn Android fully proprietary ala Windows, is to hard-fork AOSP to keep the Lineage/Graphene/etc. users happy, and then rewrite main Android as closed-source.

That won’t be of much good should Tor or I2P get taken down too, and a major Tor exit node operator recently getting arrested doesn’t spell anything good on that end.

If Win were released this way normally, there wouldn’t be as many haters.

• It used to be until Win8.x. Win7 was the last release where the only bloat you had to deal with was third-party bloat on a shitty OEM prebuilt you got at your local big-box store. A clean install from a vanilla MS install media was just that; a clean install. -sigh- You know Windows is toast when you’re nostalgic for the days where the extent of your bloatware woes were Norton or McAfee, or whatever OEM bloat came on your system that a clean install with a vanilla media would easily get rid of.