They are preparing for a world where we don't own things and get free use of the things they choose for us to use, when they want us to use them. Act now, before it's too late. Death by a thousand cuts, so goes society.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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I fucking knew it
Jfc, they're really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.
Who is asking for this shit ? Do they even run consumer surveys ?
Shareholders want the line to go up. Trapping everyone into endlesss subscriptions is a great way to guarantee revenue.
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Shareholders are asking for it, since monthly recurring revenue is great for profit sheets.
They run plenty of surveys, but the results go right in the trash.
Why would they ask consumers what they want when they can tell consumers what they want. What are you gonna do, move to Linux?
One would hope for a more broad institutional change like schools or workplaces not renewing contracts, but individual action matters too. Closest schools ever got in the US was with Chromebooks, and at least a few places in the EU are ditching MS for better options.
Shareholders are asking for it, noone else. Consumers are irrelevant serfs who doesn't provide the majority of profits anyway, so it is inconsequential what they think.
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Enclosures really worked well the first time, boy how.
ai recreates 'bsod' for the cloud. fantastic. rebooting server farms. ignore flickering lights
Install Linux Problem Solved.
It might be some kind of bias playing tricks on me, but it really gives me the impression that since those corporations started embracing ai and claiming that they use high percentages of it in their work, some trend of things stopping working has been on the rise. I swear those services from big companies used to be considered so highly available and stable, that people would be incredulous if they stopped.
For a while there it look like Microsoft was changing from the EEE company of the 90s. They couldn't pretend they knew what they were doing for very long though and here we are. They evolved from evil and stupid to just stupid.
They're still evil. It's more like evil and stupid to evil and incompetent
I prefer to use Windows 10 and Linux. What about using old versions of Microsoft Office?