I thought the cloud was a dumb idea back when I was doing IT. Why would you want to be reliant on 2 companies, your ISP and your cloud service provider, to do business? Why would you want to give big data access to your proprietary and customer data? Why would you want to get stuck paying whatever they asked, when they started raising prices on you down the road?

If you were still my customer, you'd be happy knowing that while your friends are paying big bucks to migrate off the cloud, your data never left. Of course, I wouldn't have made as much money as the people who got to charge you for 2 migrations, and then there's all that wasted heat and carbon.

They figured out that a lot of people don't ever bring grocery bags, so they keep buying the reusable bags, and they end up polluting the earth.

There are so many ways we can reduce pollution. Your cell phone could be designed to make the battery last longer, but that isn't as profitable. same for notebook batteries. It's all about profit and greedy people. I live on the ocean. When you see a rich person pull in to a remote anchorage in a mega yacht, running generators 24-7 to power the water maker, lights, toys, etc, and they have this big yacht for 2-4 people, and you see the pollution they create, you realize that's only half of it. They have another big yacht that follows them around with all their toys on it. So many things are made just to be disposable that don't need to be, but it's more profitable that way. They're making cars like cell phones now, designed to last 3-4 years of payments, then get a new one. Until we design things that are good for people, instead of profit, we're doomed.

I figure they spy on how I use their Photo Editor and then incorporate features based on my use for their paying customers. (I am a professional photographer)

If you upload all your photos to their cloud services, that allows them to train AI off your photos, mine your photos for location and friend data, etc. No thanks, I'll back up my photos to my computer myself.

I don't do business with paypal or vendmo after paypal and ebay ripped me off 10 years ago.

I love the look on people's faces when they ask if they can vendmo or paypal me money and I tell them "No." Either find another way to pay me or go away. I don't do business with thieves, I don't care how many of your friends are ok with their abuse.

and it was already brought up, but during covid they threatened people with fines, as if there weren't enough other reasons to avoid them. https://news.yahoo.com/paypal-...

I googled it for you: https://news.yahoo.com/paypal-...

They're not just tricking you in to using Edge, they want to know why you're not using Edge.
Just wait until they have their own AI chip and key on your computer. Pretty soon you'll have to fight them for access to all of your display.
Glad I'm on Linux Mint. My computer is a tool for me to work, I don't share it with Microsoft for free.

Let's wait until we detect the level of chemicals needed to hurt people, so then we have a group of hurt people (aka customers) that will need new healthcare treatments we will have to develop for profit.

They just keep proving that an ounce of prevention isn't worth a big pile of money.

Are we all glad we have Africa for big pharma to test their drugs on?

Smart devices don't make consumers dumb. Smart devices are bought by dumb consumers. Dumb consumers are made by TV, smart phones, processed food, and a horrible public school system.

I don't want a computer car. I want privacy. I don't want to ask my car if I can do something, I want to tell it what to do.
Look what they did to our phones.

Somebody needs to build a dumb electric car, that just does what the owner wants, and not what the people who built it want.

The narrative is to socially isolate people so they become dependent on their phones and tvs and monthly subscriptions.

If you turn down my invite you're off the list!

I call BS. If it was really an issue people would be attacking the 1% like their lives depended on it.

CNN finds expert that agrees with their narrative... sounds like a headline for the onion.

Do you have any idea how weird it was to be in Mexico, and before you could go in to a liquor store, we would put bandanas on our face like bandits???
you had to do that at banks too!

A sad attempt at trying to improve functionality. People want computers as a tool. We don't want to rent it from you, we don't want you spying on us, watching what we do, seeing if there's some way you can turn it in to profit for yourself.

If you make a good tool, you will be profitable. If you want to just control and squeeze people, you're only going to get the stupid people to go along with that.