Maybe the draft was from before May and they didn’t change it? lol.

Ah, of course. The model isn’t wrong, it’s the input that’s wrong. Yes, yes. Please give me investment money now.

Finally, T10

It’s sort of the opposite (prior to Windows 12 supposedly being subscription based). They were claiming you’d pay once and get get all subsequent versions for free. The way they offered upgrades to 10 and 11 for free from previous versions.

I don’t wanna sound like someone defending Microsoft, but that line was taken out of context. It was originally something like “last one you’ll buy” meaning they’re giving free upgrades now to future OSes.

…but then again, even under that meaning this is pretty shitty. Most people would rather buy something than have to rent it forever. Especially when the norm is already that they own it. Doubly so when that price is already hidden and baked into the price of the hardware the user is buying. Most folks probably aren’t even aware they’re “paying” for Windows in some form when they buy a laptop.

(Yes yes nobody owns Windows, they own a license to use it blah blah blah.)

It’s sort of funny to me, that original Windows 10 “last OS” thing came from around the time Jetbrains tried to push a subscription model over a purchase model. They ended up going with subscription with a perpetual fall back license which seems to be the best of both. (Once you pay for 12 continuous months, whatever version you had at the start of the 12 months you get a perpetual license for. So if you stop paying the subscription after 15 months, whatever version existed 12 months ago you can use forever.) I can’t really see Microsoft doing that though.

Ahhh gotcha

It’s a meme, I don’t think folks are meant to view this as something other than ironic.

You’re paying or seeing ads?

Not just the knowledge and time but the urgency too. It was an emergency.

My head canon is that this comic made people work harder on image recognition.

Web browsers don’t make money. It’s why only chrome basically exists and that’s a cost center to support Google’s Internet ad hegemony and they spend billions a year on it.

Yep. Well, I don’t necessarily agree it started exclusively for the ads, but they definitely wanted to create something that they control. Microsoft Edge and Opera switching to Chromium just means Google has more soft control on how the web operates. (Even saying “soft” there is pretty generous.) A majority of browsers are Chromium forks. Google can control how the web operates because of it.

But to your point though, thwarting ad blocking is a huge part of it now. The manifest V3 changes (which severely limited what sorts of ad blocking extensions could do) came the same year they listed ad blocking as a significant risk to their revenue in their shareholder statement. Which, I just wanna mention for folks who might not be keeping up with this as much, isn’t some sort of conspiratorial statement. It’s a public document because they’re a publicly traded company.

LibreOffice just doesn’t roll of the tongue like OoenOffice though. Which really sucks. I even catch myself saying it when I mean LibreOffice.

“one of the most evil people in history is dead” says the pedophile president.

Tuning forks are big fake

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Edit: That was supposed to be a corkscrew joke but sparkling wine doesn’t need a corkscrew. Oops.

That’s so fucking weird! I wish we could hear a recording. That’s amazing.

I don’t wanna test it. I’ve heard of folks getting nasty grams from their ISP about it and having like X strikes before getting cut off. What VPN do you use? I’ve been curious to try one.

Not without risking your ISP cutting your Internet off. You need a VPN to mitigate that risk.

That’s true, but it’s also free.

You won’t get your Internet cut off because some copyright holder sends your ISP a complaint.