Continue to use Linux as my primary go-to for operating system except in cases where I am in need of a Windows machine.
Then, when it comes to Windows, continue being informed about the inner workings of the OS and using Powershell and other tricks to get around the worst of Microsoft excesses.
It definitely has an air of "the misbehaving kids realized the teacher is on the way back to the classroom."
The Engineers Dilemma:
Once you get off your butt to go see what the problem is, the problem will mysteriously solve itself for the time being.
Source: Worked in local television News Production. We would regularly call on the engineers for the problem to fucking resolve itself by the time they showed up. Always made me feel real stupid.
That's fair. I don't know why you got downvoted for asking a reasonable question. Not everybody deals with these issues front and center.
Refusal to let the user decide how they want to use the system. Examples such as:
If I uninstall Skype or Candy Crush, I expect them to stay uninstalled. Nope. Each update, Microsoft says "Nope, you need these" and re-installs them.
Pushing Microsoft Accounts hard. For most consumers, the copy of Windows 11 they'll get won't even allow them to use a local account. If they're savvy enough, they might be able to look up the PowerShell commands to bypass it, but it's pretty much a done deal for most average people: if you want to use consumer Windows, you're looking at needing to submit to using a Microsoft account for logging in.
Ads ads ads everywhere! I don't ever remember Microsoft being this pushy before. It won't shut the fuck up about Microsoft Edge. Hell, I had to put up with fucking Cortana on every install until very recently when they finally decided to drop her useless ass.
They have in general decided to say "fuck what the consumer wants, they'll use our OS how we say."
They know that gaming is the one thing that often keeps people from switching to Linux.
They know this because they keep purposefully making Windows worse and less consumer-friendly. They want you to use Windows how they want you to use it, in a way that maximizes profit for Microsoft.
*Valve laughs in Gabe Newell, owner of Valve and former employee of Microsoft.
Motherfucker left Microsoft to focus on games. He spearheaded the move to Linux to protect their store from becoming blocked on Windows. He knows how Microsoft works, intimately.
I’d be really surprised if Valve got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.
Using imfglip and linking to it instead of hosting the image somewhere (Lemmy? Imgbb?) definitely makes you one of the baddies.
Also there's several variations of this meme that you could have used that don't use a violent abusers image. Like a similar one with Geordi LaForge from Star Trek.
Fuck, no wonder we all just... understand each other. It's just one big table now.
I think what's probably filtering it is that it's designed like the internet of yesteryear. It mimics early reddit and the forums which came before. It speaks to millennials in what we're looking for in social media (the stuff that feels comfortable and familiar, the stuff we grew up with).
I think gen z in many ways is just as tech savvy, but more for understanding the nuances of modern applications. The user interface for things like Snapchat or Tiktok take me a while to get used to, and I was never a fan of endlessly scrolling video (or vertically filmed video, dear GOD), and yet to young people, those things are a snap and more easy to navigate than what we find easy to navigate. I learned to edit media in Final Cut Pro and Photoshop and there's gen z kids blowing me out of the water in over-the-top production-value by using off-the-shelf apps and just their phone. It's kind of wild how accessible media creation has gotten. I learned mine literally working at a television station, streaming kids learn it from studying online.
I think gen z is probably mostly just young and hasn't become as jaded and cynical as we have yet about things like advertising or algorithmically manicured social feeds. They don't see a problem with them yet because they haven't been alive long enough to have enough bad experiences to turn them away from such systems. Even for our generation, we're in the minority: most people our age bracket still use Facebook. We're like the weird kids, we never stopped being weird.
Oh I'm sure there's plenty of Gen Zers here, it just the humor for memes seems to mainly fall squarely in the millennial style of humor. Also, when I reference media from my youth, I get lots of upvotes from people who obviously grew up with the same stuff.
I've seen a handful of gen z "deep fried" type memes where the memes get really weird and deeply self referential, but I see far more of the snarky millennial style humor than the obscure meta gen z humor.
EDIT: Also, when I post music videos. I tend to get a lot more love for mildly accessible late 90's/early 2000's music than I do for any music that was released in say, the last ten years. A lot of people my age have been reticent to experience new music, but that happens in every generation, as well.
Also GLaDOS: "Managing to misspell a word that is only a single letter definitely is some kind of triumph."