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[kradeelav]

reading about google's unveiling of ai-only search pages at i/o, windows 11 fast tracking blatant always-on spyware, and seeing this apple ad for the first time today is making me seriously consider the timetable to get off the last remnants of gmail/drive/going back to a dumbphone/etc for good.

the genuine condescension to humanity i see written all over those actions is. mm. ethically distressing, to say the least. when the actual hell did it get so bold.

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[helicoprion]

Today I got an email from my company's IT department asking "hey are you accessing email using Thunderbird on a Linux machine?"

And I was like, "yeah. Is there an issue?"

And the dude's like "no, just checking, because nobody ever does either of those things so I was wondering if you'd been hacked" lmao. Truth is when my previous computer died I just absolutely could not face the prospect of installing Windows 10 again and then having to neuter all the weird ass intrusive stuff from square 1. But I guess mostly people have been conditioned to passively accept that kind of shit???

Which is just to say that. Yeah I feel this. Increasingly.

[queenlua]

fuck yes i love thunderbird

[kradeelav]

hahaha oh gosh that email story's kind of hilarious ... honestly you probably made the IT departments day knowing there's another (real) linux user out there~