Running Windows in a virtual machine under linux with an emulated TPM is one reasonable way to keep it relatively under control, I guess. But the graphics drivers are, shall we say, low on features.

It's an American tradition!

A lot of printers are poop. A lot of printer drivers are poop, including ones for Linux. If I want my printer to "just work" then I need to install packages. Luckily Brother produces them, and they have been doing so for years now. I've done several OS upgrades and always had new drivers available to me for them. But if they didn't do that, it would still work, I just wouldn't be able to use it via USB. My Laser PSC supports both printing and scanning via standard protocols. The only thing that wouldn't work is the on-device buttons, which I don't use anyway.

Therefore this is either user error at setup time, or user error at purchase time. That is no comfort to a home user, but we're talking about a nation here.

Google learned to embrace, extend and extinguish right out of Microsoft's playbook. They were excellent students and you can see the results in how email and web "standards" work today.

The difference is that when Microsoft did it the authorities eventually started getting in their way to promote more openness and competition again. So far there is little sign that anyone intends to challenge the way a few tech giants have recently been capturing long-established standards that we rely on for what have become vital services and effectively taking ownership for their own purposes. The governments and their regulators are either asleep at the wheel or, if you're a bit less trusting, bought and paid for.

He forgot the word "partial"

If they want that control they need to at least divest from ALL use of Microsoft "solutions" and possibly also build their own Linux distribution.

If you've got one bad cop and one "good" cop enabling him, you've got two bad cops. Both parties always vote for more funding for war, which is how this was even possible in the first place.

So they're just shitty LLMs

https://act.represent.us/sign/...
https://inequality.org/article...
https://news.web.baylor.edu/ne...

Says the oligarch fellator.

Says the non-materialist. If their purpose wasn't profit they would have founded a co-op. Your worship of capitalism is a religious belief.

Tell us more about how your religion doesn't have a fragile basis in reality.

Little bitch says what?

All of that shit is like 1% of advertising.

"The showroom isn't just where you buy a car," Automotive News quoted him saying. "It's where you decide who to trust to help you to choose the right car."

Hajajhahaha they think we trust them

Ideally, ad platforms wouldn't exist, because the whole point of them is to lie to people so they make shitty decisions. But barring that, they shouldn't be allowed to refuse to serve ads related to malfeasance similar to that of which they have been found accountable in court.

We are all slaves or potential slaves in this society. Don't be such a snowflake.

When was the last time we had a draft?

Oh fuck, you're one of those. Never mind, there's no having a rational conversation with you.