arandomthought

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[–] arandomthought 140 points 3 months ago (22 children)

Tell me you work in the US without telling me you work in the US.

[–] arandomthought 68 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I can recommend the "Behind the Bastards" (podcast) episode on Steve Jobs.
What a weird... weird man.

[–] arandomthought 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

lol, is that this "small government" and the oh so free market that we keep hearing so much about?

[–] arandomthought 40 points 3 months ago

Love the image of wheeds just popping up all over your garden where you don't want them.
It's a great metaphor for the "HEY, TRY THIS NEW THING!" shit microsoft pulls.

[–] arandomthought 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Additionally much software (and hardware even more) primarely targets windows as a platform. The way printers mostly "just work"™ on Linux still amazes me, because printer vendors have all the incentives to make their stuff work for the most used platform, which sadly isn't Linux right now.

[–] arandomthought 2 points 3 months ago

Don't worry, we need more of those too. <3

[–] arandomthought 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Then you'd have 0 dollars because they aren't dorks. They're nerds and we need more of them. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

[–] arandomthought 20 points 3 months ago
[–] arandomthought 27 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Full disclosure: I ran manjaro as a daily driver for a while a few years back bad have been forced back on windows as well by company policy. So I'm not going to be the ultimate authority to answer your questions.
All I wanted to comment is that with iTunes and Office you have picked two pieces of software by two companies that have a very strong interest in not letting you migrate away from them. I tried to migrate my gf's password manager from the iCloud one to bitwarden and it's amazing the hoops they make you jump through to get at your data. So what you might be experiencing right now is a thing called "vendor lock", and I wish you the best of luck for finding a way out. ;)

[–] arandomthought 23 points 3 months ago

Love the Cave Johnson quote in the readme that just preempts any of those pesky "why" questions.

[–] arandomthought 1 points 3 months ago

Upvoted, saw your comment, immediately removed my upvote.

[–] arandomthought 55 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Have a look around...

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