Please wait...
Too much of that happens, there wont be new machines to buy. And lots of people out of work.
At this point in time, if i have to buy something because what little i have left dies, ill just go with backmarket or something. My last phone and previous ( not current ) Chromebook came from there. And while it wont meet your requirements for hurting the supply chain, no one is making a dime off your purchase, other than them.
everyone in the supply chain loses money.
The conclusion, which I'd like to find a way to verify, is that if you
buy one of these machines and immediately install Linux, everyone in
the supply chain loses money. Maybe the hardware manufacturer made a
little because the machine was manufactured in China by some child
laborer making 11 cents an hour. All the crapware companies paid their
subsidies for eyeballs they will never access. The conventional wisdom
was don't buy a machine with Windows preinstalled because Microsoft
doesn't deserve your money, but if you can make them *lose* money now
... hey, go ahead and buy it.
I think you are correct at this point.
Still, I am the sort of person who lives on recycled hardware because I can't justify buying 300 bucks in equipment when I can get my tasks done in a machine that costs me 90. The only exception is actual server hardware, but server hardware does not come with Windows preinstalled anyway. At least the one they sell around here doesn't.
2025-05-18 16:34 from Nurb432
Subject: Re: How to make Microsoft lose money?
Too much of that happens, there wont be new machines to buy. And
lots of people out of work.
Oh, no! Spyware coders will be left unemployed! See how I cry!!!!!!!
There used to be some empathy left in me but I am trying very hard to remove it. 30% of what I do is fight targetted spam and unsolicited bulk mail so I regard people in the mass marketing industry as vermin. Their only purpose is to justify 30% of my existence as a digital pest control techniccian.
We have truly entered the age of bullshit jobs in which there is more people getting paid for useless tasks that generate no value than on growing corn and extracting coal. Society has degenerated into a cycle in which somebody pays in order to make life impossible for people, who then pay somebody to protect them from the first group. It is like some sort of Ponzi scheme that is only sustained because an ever reducing group of people who does actual work sustain society for the ever growing group of parasytes to exist.
So no, no empathy from me. Fuck them all and watch them starve in a homeless camp under a bridge.
Subject: Re: How to make Microsoft lose money?
My computing needs are pretty meager too. I don't play games on the computer (we're a Nintendo house yo) and the desktops/laptops run little more than web browsers and text editors. I splurged a little on the server, but the SSD's were hand-me-downs from [redacted] and the machine will probably handle most of my computing tasks for a decade.
Interestingly, one of the companies we all hate, in essence is supporting Israel due to selling stuff to them, bla bla. So they now have employees bypassing bans on politics to send out company wide pro Palestine rhetoric.
Banning politics at work, also a point in their favor. And it pains me to say that.
With luck the offenders are taken out back and turned into fertilizer. Firing them for breaking the rules, isn't enough.
I will never use Copilot, because it is garbage. I use Grok, and even then, I don't want a dedicated key for it! Not on Windows, not on Linux, not ever.
Yes, I know I can map it back to right-ctrl, and yes, I did. But it's a backlit doubleshot key so I can't just repaint it with the correct legend.
And for that, Bill Gates needs to be punished by being shredded alive in a wood chipper.
Ya, its bad enough having a 'windows' key on nearly every "PC" keyboard now. ( of course apple has their own version, but they are within the walled garden.... )
In the end it's just a flex. Apple has their logo on a key so M$ has to have one as well.
But putting Copilot in the bottom row? What the actual fuck were they thinking?
Application keys go on TOP, you absolute lowlifes. If you have media keys, or extra keys to start a browser, or one that opens a calculator ... seen it all, not that useful but ok, but THAT is where you'd put a key to open the cursed Grandson-of-Clippy.
Just heard through the grapevine that M$ just did another round of layoffs. The massacre continues.
They're still trying to peddle the lie that the affected jobs are being replaced by AI. This is of course a lie.
The truth, according to the inside scuttlebutt, is that as they continue moving software onto the cloud, they know they can get away with less AI because they've crowdsourced QA to their users and can fix shipped defects on the fly instead of having to send out a fix like they used to.
And a portion of the jobs are moving to India. This is consistent, of course: if you want to know what M$ is up to in any given year, just look at what IBM was doing 30 years prior. IBM and M$ have always behaved like master and apprentice sith lords.