Windows 11 is enshittfying a feature that let you skip making a Microsoft account

There, FTFY.

Great if it is done right. This will put a stop all those screenshoted memes from Fediverse.

The witch trial which explains duck typing perfectly.

Yeah, deal with it, Copilot/LLM plugin!

“Victory for free speech (as long as it means only we get to talk”)! /s

Actually, it was invented by Douglas Engelbart in Stanford in the 60s

https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/162/000/

Xerox (re)made it for the PC in the 80s.

I agree to a certain extent; at least elementary school should and remain device free.

“I was trying to be the Netflix for wallpapers.” /s

It is not great, but however with WebEx, at least it comfortably runs in the browser without consuming all the CPUs.

Teams

Matrix being federated and interoperable from day 1 was pushing for this and there was a blog post on this:

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/09/whatsapp-dma/

Agree! It can only act as a reference. I like the approach taken by distributions like Yunohost where all the details are abstracted away.

I think it can be configured and it depends on the client to allow it or not.

So…like Lemmy?

Also punched cards had around 80 columns, which put a hard limit on the number of characters per line.

If it is a pay what you want model I am all for it. This would be similar to how elementary OS st

The problem with a fixed price is you have to always calibrate it according to the economy of the user’s geolocation. What is cheap for a person from a developed world may be unaffordable for a third world county.

The flagship communities are quite alive, but the niche communities have not really taken off. I am talking from both the absence of such communities, and my experience trying to migrate !fluidmechanics. The subreddit has around 10k humans (or bots).

G.P.U.

We are free to learn, but learning is not free.

Freedom vs cost. One cannot pickup a skill without time, effort and more importantly access to guidance and a vast library of content. Same applies to man or machine. The difference is how corporations have essentially reinvented piracy to facilitate their selfish ends after decades of dictating what’s right with DMCA, DRM and what not.

While you cannot uninstall it, you should be able to disable Google Assistant and the Google app. That should cripple its access to such features.