"these tools also provide powerful weapons to fight crime, for the vast majority of officers who are *not* rogue."

60% ain't massive and 40% of cops do DV, you think that ain't rogue? Cops are fundamentally untrustworthy.

Who can you trust?

No, we clearly can't make you willing participants in a surveillance society understand that it's a shit substitute for meeting needs.

It is only needed if the cops don't follow the rules.

I think this is because you don't need one to install and play games, we had playonlinux and we have lutris and heroic. I haven't used the latter but lutris makes installing and playing games from GOG very easy.

Like machine looms, we should be giving a share of the profits from the improvements in productivity to all people, as The People are collectively responsible for the improvements, but while machine looms only put people out of work, LLMs are doing that plus going into systems that abuse them in lots of other ways.

You can't have an insightful discussion involving Microsoft while ignoring their past, present, and probable future of crap.

This is by design. Otherwise these systems would be designed with meaningful oversight.

Since they were designed in such a way as to enable abuse, that must be the goal, right? Otherwise we'd have to appeal to incompetence.

"don't you think it takes a psychological toll on the people forced to work the job?"

It's a fuck of a lot less than becoming unemployed and wondering how you are going to keep a roof over you because a clanker took your job and is taking all the other jobs you're qualified for.

Skilled knowledge workers sometimes forget that some people aren't equipped to do their kind of work. Some people absolutely do just want to do a job forever, collect paychecks, and retire on social security, and there is nothing wrong with that. There has never been a time in history when everyone was well educated and high skilled, and there probably never will be... Especially as we are headed the other direction as a species

That's a very, very weird thing to care about unless you're being paid to feel that way. Since Microsoft has done so much shit to so many people in so many ways it's otherwise inexplicable that anyone would come out of the woodwork to defend them. It's like when George Bush pointed out that Hitler had a dog.

The humans are usually no help regardless. They are often not sufficiently trained to do their jobs, and they frequently have no power to do anything for the customer anyway.

Sure, but if you knew what you were doing you could install the generic adobe postscript driver with the appropriate ppd... so what we're really establishing here is that Windows never "just worked" and required a lot of specialist knowledge that people have just willfully forgotten about apparently in order to support their argument that Linux is hard.

That's like saying that all a new pharmacist needs to learn to get started in dispensing is one book: The PDR. The information on the medications is in there, the knowledge to comprehend it is not. If you had an infinite amount of time, and one of the really well-documented versions of Unix, what you say is true, for an educated and/or talented user. But not all man pages are very good, and some are missing entirely and it's not obvious where to find the documentation.

Some things are also only documented in the pages for programmers, but I've never seen a Unix system come with the kind of documentation you'd reasonably need to start learning C, or in most cases even shell scripting (although the modern bash man page is pretty good!)

If you read what I wrote, you didn't understand it.

Feel free to ask for clarification, or simply to point out any parts of what I wrote that you find unclear. I'm looking for ways to better explain this.