Then good! You've made your choice, and you will do whatever Microsoft say you will do. And you always will. If you don't like my phrasing, let's just say that you aren't unhappy enough to switch. It's exactly the same thing. But whatevs.

I use 1 program that I have to have a Windows machine with. When I'm done, it gets put away, and not used until I need that one program again. In between, I'm really enjoying the use of my Mac and Linux machines. Sucks to be a Windows user I guess.

Your mistake is that you assume I'm just dissing on women, because of your reasons. I'm just saying what do you expect on a fem focused site?

Yes homie. Men cheat. But unless it is with other men, it means every male cheater is cheating with a woman - Unless of course there is one very tired but relaxed woman who's having sex with a billion guys.

But homie, my experience is that since women do cheat, it is mathematically impossible - like my single woman banging every cheating male example, they will have a reason for it, and you can bet your credit score they share it with other women. Maybe he worked too much, maybe he was emotionally unavailable, maybe she was just bored with him. It happens, might as well be pragmatic about it.

And in a site where say a woman has been cheated on, they probably have little problem caring if it is shared. Their own extracurricular activities? That they probably want kept secret from the world.

There is a problem though. Lesbian marriages have a ridiculous divorce rate. I have a relative who is gay. She's on her forth marriage in 10 years now. I like her, she's witty and pretty nice. But not stable in her romantic relationships.

Voluntary, not involuntary.

And many guys have found that going to a professional is a quite acceptable solution. Much less expensive than marriage and family. The pro ladies are also a lot better at that sort of thing.

I'm not certain how we can make oversharing the highest priority, enforceable by law. Unless of course we null and void the first amendment. Let's look at the situation. A dating safety app, in very few cases will need to know that a woman had had abortions - unless the woman puts it on the site, as is her constitutional right. Foolishness and online oversharing is not illegal.

And the idea that sites can be hardened against any and all attacks will not do much more than kill most applications.

I think that there is an underlying issue here. Perhaps many or most modern women have few in-person friends. So they make ersatz friends with others on social media - yes, Tea is social media. Then in the back and forth discourse they overshare. Whereas once upon a time, they might confide in a bestie in private that they had an abortion after coming back from a girl's trip, and didn't tell their husband that she was having fun with a number of man while at the shore. Something that might have been taken to the grave, gets placed on line, and the inevitable happens. And this group of online pretend friends just egg each other on.

Never share data on line that can wreck your life. Breaches are as common as mud these days, demanding that you can post about your abortion or the four way you had at the beach with strangers should be your right and it will be a secret forever? People do stuff that should never be posted online unless they are okay with the world knowing about it.

At this point in time, who is going to do that? I do interact with a lot of young guys, up to around mid 30's. maybe ten percent are married, another 10 percent are in relationships which presumably have sexual activities involved. The rest are happy to be single and unattached.

And if they really want sex, they can visit professional ladies. Turns out a much cheaper alternative to marrying and raising a family.

Sarcasm noted!

I'm not against abortion at all. Especially when the woman's continued pregnancy might kill her. But in the present world, there appear to be a lot of women who promote it hard - almost to obsession.

But at this point, there are some issues. There are so many ways to prevent giving birth that scraping cells off a uterus is about the least pleasant and most invasive and potentially dangerous way of getting rid of those cells.

Condoms, Morning after pills, birth control pills, IUDs, non-penetrative sex. You can get your jollies without risking pregnancy.

Second issue is that the sperm supplier for those cells has absolutely no say in the matter. While some think that is right and just, we must remember that while he has no rights, he has responsibility for a couple decades if say he wants her to abort, but she doesn't. Or if he wants the resulting child, but she wants to end it. He is an irrelevant bystander other than paying.

Is this part of the fact that somewhere around half of all women of reproductive age are going to be single and childless in just a few years? It isn't the only reason, but I've heard that in the mix from so called red pilled men. PS - call them incels if you like, they would correct you that they are vcels.

To be certain, I'm referring to programs that people use professionally, and not the dreaded "In line purchases" crap. Smartphone culture is a different world. And definitely not crud baked into the OS.

I don't doubt it. In one useful version of "AI", In DDG, they have an AI assistant that makes web searches much better. Present day regular searches are worthless - example - I was looking for a case from some years ago where a man and wife drove off a bridge because GPS told them to.

Standard search just gave 10+ pages of a new case from 2023, all the same basic story, just from different news sources. I gave up, on that, and typed into DDG AI assistant "Man and wife drive off bridge because GPS told them to". A few seconds later, I had the answer.

Maybe for use cases like TikTok or games some might, but a lot of Mac users use their machines professionally. We work on a tight schedule and no distractions allowed. If say I'm using Adobe CC and an ad pops up, Ima tell them that if their crazy SaaS prices aren't enough, they're going to lose a customer who's been loyal since the 1980's. A customer who once guided others to the suite, but also has a lot of people he talks to.

AC posts insightful! Something tells me you are AC to avoid burning mod points.

At the place I retired from, I somehow ended up being the Support person for Macs. We had a few hundred of them. You are right in that they were so trouble free It didn't impact my actual work - I seldom had an issue.

On the other hand there was an entire group, several dozen who supported Windows, and they were busy. Even called me in on a regular basis. Which kind of negates the "Macs are too expensive!" mantra when you need an army to keep the Windows machines running. I ended up becoming the IT support for the C-Suite on their Windows computer. Most of our IT people were afraid of the C-Suite people, just about pissed themselves if they had to interact. I wasn't. Most were my friends. Just people.

Yeah, something is a little odd here. Seems like a sort of honeypot for gullible women? Who in their right mind would post that kind of stuff on a "dating safety app?"

A lot of places are encountering issues, as some women have been posting names and addresses to doxx about men they are dating. And using those places the women find out they are in situationships with the same guys.

The odd thing is they act surprised, considering the on dating apps 80 percent of women find only some top 10-20 percent of men on those apps as acceptable. So a few guys are getting laid with different women all the time.

So yeah, it's almost certainly a gossip site, and some gullible people thought it would be private and are way oversharing. Please ladies - don't do this!

What is your definition of "slave labor"? If a company is using involuntary servitude, forcing people to work uncompensated, and actually owning people, no - I wouldn't support them.

But if your definition is that people are getting paid less than here in the USA, why buy off them. The employees are getting paid well by that countries standards, and perhaps in order to conform to that definition, the factories should close down, and the now freed employees can go back to what they were doing before - subsistence living.

I had given a lot of thought to this - at one time I thought that any employee in any place in the world should be paid at the same rate as here in the US. But then the US wouldn't buy their products. The lower paid employees in these countries are bootstrapping to a higher living standard. I'm not surprised they prefer it to a life of farming just to survive. Does this make any sense to you?

We have to decide. As I noted, the concept of global trade is fairly complex, with some decisions sending people back to subsistence living. So where I once supported the idea of simply not trading, or trade at higher expense with countries where some of the manufacturing is a choice between that job and essentially no job at all other than growing enough food to live on. Especially when that factory work provides a better lifestyle.

As for me - can you come up with a reason why I should support a religion that for so many years has allowed pedophilia to continue unpunished - indeed encouraging it? Moving a priest who like sex with prepubescents to another diocese when parents get upset that it is their son he's banging only supplies the nerve with fresh new mouths and anuses to enjoy.

The Catholic Church taught me that man makes gawd in his own image, and a lot of churches believe their god at least tolerates kiddie diddlers. I came away from that experience an athiest, and their concept of heaven and hell are equally repugnant in my opinion, assuming if there is such a thing. I can get some people upset when I note that if I'm wrong, and I stand before the angry desert gawd some day, I'm going to punch the cunt bastard, giving him a real reason to send me to hell.

I've always noted that you could take a Mac user from say version 6.7 on a Mac and sat them down in front of one running the latest OS, in a few minutes, they could find their way around enough to do some work.

And I am maintaining a network of W10 and a couple W11 Windows machines. What the actual hell? Stuff moved around for no apparent real reason. Things that I did via muscle memory in W10 took a web search to find where the stuff moved to. Considering someone had to do web pages explaining where it went tells me I wasn't the only one. I call it Windows Whack-a-mole administration.

True dat. I still hear people bitching and moaning about "Macs only have one button mice!" Probably 30+ years since I've used one. So should I complain to them about Serial mice? 8^).

As a user of all three OSs, I gotta say that Windows is brittle, prone to problems, not very secure, it is just corporate inertia that props them up. Mac is my daily driver, because I'm fussy about my computers working, and updating when I tell them to update. And while I spend a lot of time in Terminal on my Macs, Linux is just fun. Probably my inner geek, but I enjoy compiling and installing programs the Linux way.

90+ percent of my problems are Windows issues, and if you take "futzing" into account, taking a lot of time to make things work, it's even higher.

He was probably parroting something he read on Reddit. And BTW, I'm expecting ads and other crap in Enterprise soon. I've had my Enterprise laptop do a forced update at horribly inopportune times. I called the IT people and they said they couldn't do anything about it, even when I told them who would be visiting them if my work was messed up. So I'm expecting lots of fun new indignities to happen, and the faithful to defend them.

Same here, It's only certain vendors, and it is a PITA anyhow. I've done the same. At least with Linux, I haven't been monetized, the updates are installed when I choose, and there are much fewer problems.