▲ 501 ▼ Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them (www.neowin.net) submitted 3 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 145 comments fedilink hide all child comments The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.
[–] baconsunday@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 months ago (4 children) Fearmongering garbage. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) A visceral reaction but aimed at the wrong person. It's just an observation of the trends. The fact that tech companies no longer need to sell to consumers, the intermingling of tech companies with the US government, the trending authoritarianism of world governments, and the moral panic being manufactured to implement age verification, the erosion of encryption, and the now-illegality of VPNs by first world governments. Go read some slop by Curtis Yarvin. He's the mind behind the ideology of the new right. That is where it's headed. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (2 children) Or free money. Take the wager! Why don't you fine folk both put your money where your sermingly-confidently-omniscient mouths are? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] baconsunday@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) because I don't eat my momey sir permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago I see. Well I'm absolutely not here to kink-shame. You do whatever you want to do with....that then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) A visceral reaction but aimed at the wrong person. It's just an observation of the trends. The fact that tech companies no longer need to sell to consumers, the intermingling of tech companies with the US government, the trending authoritarianism of world governments, and the moral panic being manufactured to implement age verification, the erosion of encryption, and the now-illegality of VPNs by first world governments. Go read some slop by Curtis Yarvin. He's the mind behind the ideology of the new right. That is where it's headed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (2 children) Or free money. Take the wager! Why don't you fine folk both put your money where your sermingly-confidently-omniscient mouths are? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] baconsunday@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) because I don't eat my momey sir permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago I see. Well I'm absolutely not here to kink-shame. You do whatever you want to do with....that then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] baconsunday@lemmy.zip 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) because I don't eat my momey sir permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago I see. Well I'm absolutely not here to kink-shame. You do whatever you want to do with....that then. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago I see. Well I'm absolutely not here to kink-shame. You do whatever you want to do with....that then. permalink fedilink source parent