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To the OP: this is extremely well written. It explains something crucially important in a very measured style. I saw your update .. please do not be disheartene

To the OP: this is extremely well written. It explains something crucially important in a very measured style. I saw your update .. please do not be disheartened about people picking nits. If you read comments to other popular posts, you'll observe that we sometimes ignore the main theme go to great lengths picking some nits to infinitesimal bits. I bought MS Office Professional some 15 years ago. Having been bit by other vendors, I bought the disks. There is nothing on them that the license is for X years (or maybe there is, .. if so, very well hidden in legalese). Now, the company has been going to great lengths to force me to get a later version and pay them a monthly rent. I do not need it, and already paid for the license for what I use. So I will continue to use Windows 7 or 10 or whatever. I am close to putting together a Linux laptop. I see that Consumer Reports has asked that enshittifier to keep supporting Windows 10. One can only hope. I too, while paying my dues to America, will start to look elsewhere. Thank you.

gchamonlive 1y ago
Thanks for the encouraging words. It really means a lot. Yeah it feels like people default to assuming we bash on US for sport, that we enjoy it's shortcomings and would also enjoy seeing it burn to the ground. It's not. I wished I didn't have to write these kinds of stuff. I wish I only focused on my area of interest which is philosophy of consciousness. But we have to write these harsh criticism because we want to see things just because we don't wanna see it burn to the ground, but flourish and be ever more inviting for collaboration. It's illogical to think otherwise because it's counterproductive to share knowledge with an actor we'd aim to neutralize. But when slack can change terms, when Microsoft can push spyware and nobody is accountable for anything, when what's the point of a transaction? These all feels like scams. If I'm going to get scammed I prefer not to buy anything at all.

gchamonlive 1y ago

Thanks for the encouraging words. It really means a lot. Yeah it feels like people default to assuming we bash on US for sport, that we enjoy it's shortcomings and would also enjoy seeing it burn to the ground. It's not. I wished I didn't have to write these kinds of stuff. I wish I only focused on my area of interest which is philosophy of consciousness. But we have to write these harsh criticism because we want to see things just because we don't wanna see it burn to the ground, but flourish and be ever more inviting for collaboration. It's illogical to think otherwise because it's counterproductive to share knowledge with an actor we'd aim to neutralize. But when slack can change terms, when Microsoft can push spyware and nobody is accountable for anything, when what's the point of a transaction? These all feels like scams. If I'm going to get scammed I prefer not to buy anything at all.