microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place my tin foil hat theory is that the entire tech industry is planning and carrying out these things in order to push people away from owning a computer and instead paying for cloud computing as their desktop experience, privacy and security risks included
but the big tech sector appears to be profoundly stupid so there's no way they could possibly plan out such a thingTech oligarchs are perfectly capable of colluding on a profitable global financial crash & on the eradication of general purpose computing
https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/18/on-the-war-on-general-purpose-computing/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Coming_War_on_General_Computation
The evidence?
The fossil fuel money funding these tech fascists conduct a successful social engineering campaign to end democracy & fry the planet
The self-destructive goals may be dumb, but the people behind the tactics & propaganda aren't.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/ai-data-centers-energy-demands/686064/https://thewalrus.ca/data-centres-are-on-track-to-wreck-the-planet/
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
@eniko i still run 1 of 2 Win7 laptops i replaced Windows with Linux to avoid Win8.
I don't even wanna know how much money I saved over the years..
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
"Of course - I understand. But I have this old ThinkPad with 4Gb RAM and it runs most Linux distros perfectly."
microsoft: "Not like that!"
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@eniko y'know that comic where someone says they enjoyed good omens and these creeping snakelike shadow figures emerge saying Discworld, Discworld, you should try Discworld, and there are more and more of them until the panels are completely overwhelmed with them and our guy suffocates beneath their recommendations
Well, brace for Linux dudes
@ifixcoinops bizarrely it was worse on bluesky than here
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
hey while you're here check out the gay mario bros 3 game: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
Shrug. I installed linux in 1995 and never looked back. Y'all have fun.
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hey while you're here check out the gay mario bros 3 game: https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
you don't actually need to tell me about linux
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Shrug. I installed linux in 1995 and never looked back. Y'all have fun.
@lemgandi you do realize the post was a joke about the absurdity of the situation, not a complaint about my personal situation, right?
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@lemgandi you do realize the post was a joke about the absurdity of the situation, not a complaint about my personal situation, right?
Sigh. Grin. Yeh, but a lot of people have their ** stuck in that crack right now.
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microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place windows 11: mmm nom nom tasty bootloader
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