First RCS now this, today has been wild

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    1 year ago

    I’m a Linux guy and I don’t really care about Windows, but I’m glad to see this happening and every day I thank Europe for being the main entity fighting for regulation of big tech monopolies, because America is really failing.

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      1 year ago

      Its nuts that during the Obama admin, all anyone cared about was the threat of zero privacy. Now everyone in the US has surrendered to it, because our politicians have sold our digital privacy rights to the tech companies.

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      EU is very much a mixed bag. On the one hand, they do this, on the other hand, they tried to ban P2P encryption and microtargetted religious and elderly in resisting countries, feeding them the classic “it’s for the children’s safety” lies.

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        10 months ago

        they tried to ban P2P encryption

        They recently enshrined it as an unalienable human right as a world first.

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        Though we have to remind ourselves that it’s mainly the EU Commission who does this.

        The Supreme Court spoke out against it from the very beginning, the Parliament voted against it, it’s really only the Commission who doesn’t want to understand that EU law applies to them, too.

        Quite a few positions in there that need to be held by new people who understand the damn law.

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      1 year ago

      VPN to Sweden, update Windows to the EEA version, profit?

      I’m not holding my breath, but we can hope.

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    ABOUT FUCKING TIME. Take edge and shove it so far up your data tracking sphincter of a face hole.

    Can we please get these laws on a global level.

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    1 year ago

    This is cool and all, but why do we always stop at Microsoft? I think it would be more impactful in 2023 if we can uninstall Safari from iOS devices and Chrome from Android?

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    As an American, all I can say is thank you Europe for continuing to have sensible legislation that forces these companies to have decent policies worldwide if only to comply with EU laws. I only use Windows on my company provided laptop but just because I don’t need to worry about it personally doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t care about how it affects others.

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    1 year ago

    So apparently having consumer-friendly laws does in fact lead to better products. Cool.

    Perhaps the USA and other countries should follow the EU’s good example on this.

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    1 year ago

    Thank you Europe. Once again you prove yourself to be what we all aspire to be.

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      1 year ago

      Even better as a Windows 10 user - get to avoid the issues with version 11 and the issues with Linux!

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            not sure how it’s really relevant.

            Your original comment mentioned this…

            Even better as a Windows 10 user - get to avoid the issues with version 11

            I responded with the end of life date for Windows 10 to let you know that those are depending on staying on Windows 10 can only do so for a limited amount of time, and hence only have a limited time of avoiding issues with Windows 10. That’s the relevance.

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              1 year ago

              You can say this about all software though? Linux also won’t be around forever… So it’s somewhat irrelevant.

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                You can say this about all software though? Linux also won’t be around forever… So it’s somewhat irrelevant.

                First, we’re talking about OS’s, and not software in general. Please don’t use a debate tactic to move the goal posts.

                Second, nope, you can’t, so it is relevant. Linux has always been here when other OSs have come and gone (OS/2 anyone?).

                To your original comment…

                Even better as a Windows 10 user - get to avoid the issues with version 11

                Just to reiterate, Windows 10 has a shelf life that is very much shorter than Linux’s, so you won’t be a Windows 10 user for much longer.

                Regardless of how you feel about this and/or Windows vs. Linux, you’ll need to plan for it.

                Make the smart move, you’ll benefit more financially and otherwise for doing so.

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                  Windows has always been free for me so it’s no big issue. But yes, as a current Windows 10 user my point still stands that the best of both worlds is using it IMO. Have the widest support for games and can easily remove any bloatware you want from it already.

                  You are the one who originally changed the goal posts about it being changed in 2 years time and that being an issue. I’ll worry about that in 2 years time - for all we know Microsoft will extend the support.

                  But also to your point, Linux is very young itself so you can’t expect it to always be around. Once it’s around for 100+ years sure, but I just don’t see that being a thing. There’ll come a time where it’s no longer relevant.

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    1 year ago

    Hell has truly frozen over. I guarantee that uninstalling edge will break something else in Windows