Clearly I was not the first with that call to action.

But seriously, Windows is awful. I've had to use it lately, and it's comically bad. Like the OS shows me ads! Wtf!? In Fahrenheit 451, it describes the billboards as longer so you can read them while driving fast on the highway, and I feel like the ads Windows shows are basically a similar type of dystopian. And like, now you can disable more with menus, but then the disable option is like buried somewhere hard to find.

New job time!

Thank you for responding. That--RPGs-- makes sense to me. I can conceptualize a game where you're basically able to cram more into your actual life. I feel -- nay, I've witnessed -- a lot of businesses engage in practices that explicitly disempower their customers, and I see that practice a lot in videogames nowadays. That irks me. It's ultimately treating customers like ATMs, and I am not on board!

Interesting. So where I think I don't like video games writ large, I may only resonate with particular genres or particular mechanics, etc(?).

That makes sense.

I further believe I see more sameness exist than actually exists because I simply am not as familiar with the subject matter.

Wtf -- if you put more money in a glitchy vending machine, you're gonna get yet more items.😑

In fairness, x11 is a bit of a dumpster fire and has been as long as I've used Linux (since 2003).

Bless you🙏

I remain to be convinced people aren't already stupid.

Ohhhhhhhh -- thank you.

I don't follow. What am I missing?

Agreed. I think of that scene from the end of The Truman Show: the viewers are transfixed, Truman is trying to break free from the set. Then, the show goes off the air, and a viewer at home says, "Alright. What else is on?"

That's how I feel about the outrage-bait now. Like so many businesses built their castles on beach sand that they're inevitably getting washed away. How did they not see that coming?

Google and Facebook -- ahem, Meta -- are both society-harming monopolies. Microsoft (who is certainly no saint) seems like a tame monopolist circa the late 1990s in comparison.