There, I saved everyone a click. Now thank me for my service.

Product manager for proprietary malware peddler attempts to convince suckers that their malware does anything other than artificially restrict users and further the cause of vendor lock-in.

I regularly laugh at proprietary software slaves. I almost forgot, which dish is on the table tonight?

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TechAlter. A guy with a name like TechAlter is crying about being trapped and exploited by some software. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh, when will they ever learn!

Modern opiate dealer

You’re “trapped & can’t switch”.

Okay, why are you trapped?

What choices did you make to get yourself into that position?

What choices can you make now that can get you out of that position?

If you cannot answer these questions and effect positive change for yourself, then by all means yes you deserve to be trapped and abused by your overlords. Enjoy.

Minetest

Maybe my memory is failing me, but there was definitely one that starts out with Janeway getting courted by an apparition (who later turns out not to be an actual ghost).

A Voyager two-parter also IIRC

What no pussy does to a mf

Yeah no, Windows 11 IS far worse than Windows 10

Yeah no, Windows 10 IS far worse than Windows 8

Yeah no, Windows 8 IS far worse than Windows 7

Perpetual Windows $VERSION_THAT_I_GREW_UP_WITH isn’t bad. No, it’s just this new one that’s terrible.

You will run the games on our extremely specific hardware using our proprietary software environment and you will like it!

But you’re remembering him right now.

Firefox ESR creates some safe distance between you and these “wonderful” new features that everybody “wants”.

And plenty enough time for a user.js template to be tweaked accordingly.

What’s a better analogy then, sensei?

If the same document forbade reviewers from talking about, say, white replacement (which I don’t personally believe btw, just trying to hold up a mirror, here), I’m sure you wouldn’t be crying censorship.

I can also list only positive things about a thing being argued for, while omitting any of its consequences.

I’m so glad I grew up when I did and got to experience video games before they began injecting overt political messaging into games.

Most people these days seem to think that “wifi” is synonymous with the internet itself. No point trying to educate them.

The internet is srs business

Used to be a meme mocking people who took internet drama too seriously.

But, in a paradoxical twist, today everyone is on the internet and the very people that used to mock now outnumber us.

Many immunocompromised people would be risking their lives by going to in person meetings

Here lies Sam Smith. He went to a meeting and later died because of it.

Many queer people live in areas where even so much as giving a hint of your queerness can be dangerous.

Like going to a store out in the country in a dress as a biological male. And leaving successfully with your groceries because actually nobody cares despite all the stereotypes and fearmongering.

If nobody is there for these people to reach out to, many just die.

In what ways? Examples?

People keep paying for them. The industry will keep on selling that way. Keep rewarding bad behavior.