I too think that it would be better for everyone if the USA was cut off from technology.

Here

No one wants to log in to look at twitter posts either

I never really trusted them. Now I know why.

Well at least I'm not here perpetuating the delusion that desktop Linux desktop is as user-friendly and productive for every use-case as Windows and macOS are.

Wait, are you saying Windows and macOS are user-friendly and productive for every use-case? That's hilarious!

I mean, it's the main way of installing software in immutable Fedora distributions, so it would be very surprising if it wasn't preinstalled.

And they recently added a feature where they tell your friends on the platform what kind of porn you've been watching ✌🏾 I think I'll stick to Jellyfin.

Even before any of the vaccines were finished, there were plans to not grant them any patent protection so they can be produced and distributed as widely as possible. Gates and his foundation lobbied hard against that and instead came up with the bullshit plan to have rich countries buy vaccines for poor countries, which helped no one but the insane profits of the pharma companies. In the case of the vaccine developed with public funding by the Oxford University, Gates actively talked them out of releasing it with an open license, so they sold it to AstraZeneca instead.

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-under-bill-gates-vaccine-colonialism/

These subconscious effects are indeed the most effective ways for an ad to work. However, if an ad is obnoxious enough for you to remember, it can get you to actively avoid the advertised product as well.

"We aim to provide a meaningfully worse experience than the sailors of the seven seas are getting," Amazon insisted.

Imagine being an AI-generated summary of an article criticizing AI-written articles

All I want to do is download a program and click on it to install. How fucking hard is that. I am not a programmer and have zero desire to be one.

For most modern Linux distributions that's exactly how it works. You have an app store, you look for the program, click install, then click launch.