I think it is and it's getting worse.. just like how Windows 11 is a huge step back from Windows 7 in terms of the user actually being able to control his/her computer. It's like there's this attitude by software companies that they are entitled to use the bandwidth, hardware, electricity, battery life, and user's time that the user pays for - without ever making a priority what the user really would like. Software lately is always doing 'extra' in the background while never prioritizing what is directly what the user is wanting or needing. I hate the whole industry right now. Heads need to roll for real change. Apple sucks, Google sucks, Microsoft sucks, Adobe sucks, and every other software company sucks.. and hardware companies suck for putting up with it. Ever notice how every device - even a damn TV - needs to make the user wait so 'an app can update' or ads need to load before the menu? Pick up a device you haven't touched in a week and that device will waste your time first doing whatever it needs to do.

The user needs prioritized more..

Seriously.. Microsoft can make billions of dollars without bundling or ruining the computing experience by spying on everyone and driving everyone into this fucked up paranoid world. Why do they have a need to do this? Is anything you do private at all? well not if you use Windows. Who the hell is making these decisions?

This seriously sucks.. It's like we can see we're all climbing onboard a train slowly driving us to hell.. And yet I type this on a computer running Windows 11.

Seriously.. it's more likely that Gates is a fuckin liar and he mostly got lucky. The guy is desperate to make himself look like a hero for some reason.

Intel could come roaring back.. but only if they keep the workforce (engineers) and not the wokeforce (everyone that does anything other than enable engineers.) I do not predict Intel doing this. Instead, they will be more like IBM, AMD will get a sizeable lead, and Intel will spend its efforts getting taxpayer money to invest in it.

We really need some consumer friendly laws for what any OS should and should not have as default..
- no using bandwidth without user consent
- no tracking behavior without consent
- no ads
- no screen recording or keylogging
- ability to work completely offline if desired
- full user/admin control over update process
- full documentation over what the OS is doing when it decides to randomly thrash the hard drive or spike CPU/GPU usage

Anyway.. so basically Microsoft would be banned by law in my perfect world.

Hey Rockwell Automation... can we finally get a ViewSE client or server that works on Ubuntu now?

No need for a cupholder in a vehicle? Found the AI bot..

Reddit is a 'free speech' platform that is heavily censored and curated to push a narrative using numerous Chinese bots to make a user think the world is much more Socialist than it really is..

How much is that really worth? Probably not much.. So on Wall Street? It will probably be pushed to be worth a fortune - because money controls the narrative and the narrative controls the money.

I was a big Apple user for a while - when their Macbook Pros had Intel processors and things were compatible.. Now I just have an Iphone and Apple really pisses me off every day. I am so sick of shit where interoperability is actively being prevented. Here's some examples - I can't use IMessages on anything other than a Mac. I can't create a contact for a group text in my Iphone.. if it includes non-Iphone users.. WTF is that.. I have a list for work where people are supposed to be alerted if I am doing certain tasks - and I cannot save that list and name it in my Iphone because it's not 100% Iphone users.. Anti-competitive monopoly much? I think so.

Anyway.. Apple is probably the #1 offender for this type of shit where tech is purposely made not compatible or easily interoperable.. But fuck the whole tech industry in general for making everything this way. Every new device I consider buying carries a heavy burden of 'administrative' time to download all apps, sync everything, enter settings.. then you gotta keep it updated.. and constantly re login to stuff over and over - despite already logging into the device.

Today's tech is such backward annoying garbage. We could be doing so much better. Fuck Apple and fuck everyone else too.

Does anyone in the Linux community ever stop and think, "Maybe we should focus on some collaboration and consolidation rather than creating yet more options for the other 96% of desktop users?"

It seems the 'open source' linux model appears to be "Contribute to open source long enough to become successful, then use legal technicalities to close the source you promised to keep open."

All I know is I've spent countless hours with differing linux distros and never feel at home because everything specific I attempt to learn has been deprecated and replaced by something newer and different for no apparent reason. Linux distros are like the 'Dooplers' on Star Trek: Lower Decks. We'll see real Linux progress in the real world (the other 96% of users), when you Dooplers start de-Dooplicating.

Anyone that was alive for Windows 3.1 knows you'd say "Gateway 2000 486 dx2 66" not "Gateway 4dx2-66".. Also, Windows 3.11 was more common.. Sometimes I wonder how fucked up our timelines really are that people need to fake being around for when PC's came in cow-spotted boxes.

Totally agreed.. Maybe we need some more government regulation about how the media (including fucking Slashdot) tends to push government expansion propaganda in the news. In a true free market, the government would regulate something like safety standards, publish scheduling and pricing stats, and that's about it.. Then, we, the consumers, would be able to choose our flights based on price and airline performance.

I am so fucking sick of the stupid fucking software industry. Somehow, they have convinced the whole IT (and their management) world that software is more secure when its patches are 'always up to date.' So, you trust the software company to build in 'automatic updates' that give the software full administrative control of your server/computer to supply patches (meaning.. software typically programmed very recently) and somehow this is the solution... I believe it's bullshit that we somehow trust the most recent version of software to be more secure rather than trust other software/hardware to police that software. Some software has been running well for 20 years.. and then there's some theoretical vulnerability (that is probably already mitigated by firewall or other security practice) and it must urgently be patched with some database-corrupting, dependency-destroying, feature-disabling, license-killing, hotfix that has been tested for a total of 2 days.

The user should have much more control over his/her computer/server. Software really should be getting better. Instead, every fucking thing is a headache and IT/software can blame 'security' as the reason for all headaches.

Ronnagrams - the perfect unit to finally weigh yo momma.. Been calling it YoMommagrams all this time..

Yo momma is fat.

Good.. nothing gets engineers kicked into high gear like telling them everything they're trying to do is impossible.. And this is coming from someone rooting for (and investing in) AMD for the past 30 years. For the first time, I might invest in Intel too... because they're so fucked, they might actually let the engineers run the show for once in a long time.

What am I rooting for? Well, I want to make money... but what I'd rather have over money is a major advancement for mankind. We all really should be approaching chip design like we're all in a fight for survival.