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Some days I think the Microsoft personal computing team is just a division of the Apple marketing department where their main charge is to help sell more Macs.
by SavageBeast 2y ago
Some days I think the Microsoft personal computing team is just a division of the Apple marketing department where their main charge is to help sell more Macs.
About 1x/year I get frustrated with the depth of my lock-in to the Apple Ecosystem and start looking for an alternative (thats not a science project).
After I go through the Windows offerings and do some reading I'm generally happy to go back to dealing with whatever bullshit Apple want's to cram down my throat this release. Now sure iCloud knows the depths of my soul but at least I voluntarily put things there. Thats a far cry from some AI screen capping me in the background and running some AI over it (to show me more relevant ads in the Start Menu).
- angulardragon03 2y agoI use a Mac every day, for work and personal stuff. I have a Windows desktop PC, that I use almost exclusively for playing PC games with friends. I already had to use some obscure method to bypass signing in with my Microsoft account during installation. I boot it anywhere between once a month and a few times a week, and about 50% of the time some random configuration changes and I can’t do the one thing that I set out to do (play a game) without updating or downgrading some arbitrary driver. Oh, and it nags me almost every boot to sign in with my Microsoft account for one reason or another. And this is an operating system with an MSRP of $200! There are loads of things to critique about my Mac, but I can use it daily just fine, without the OS trying to trick me into signing into some service or other. The daily experience of using it feels much more consensual, as you describe.
- weikju 2y agohah we need to come up with a campaign - "Consensual Computing".