Yes. Exactly. Although there isn’t much left worth stealing from Microsoft.

(This was a low-key “Microsoft bad, Linux supreme”, comment.)

(And now it’s no longer low-key.)

(I’m using a touch-screen keyboard for writing this. And yet I can’t open my doors using the keyboard. Ever wondered why that is?)

(Correct, because I forgot my keys at home and didn’t put them on my keyboard.)

(Now it’s just a –board.)

(Oral diarrhea over. Go get some guhd Linux!)

That depends on where you live.

Yes, I know. That’s why I said:

However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country.

No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.

However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country. Knowlegde should be a free and shared common good.

Capitalism wherever it is found. Not just the USA.

Ecosia did something similar.

“If you don’t have anything to hide, you won’t mind us looking, would you?”

Wasn’t the user count declining?

I think it’s more a twitterix is dying thing, as user count was declining last time I checked.

Which ones?

Forex traders are shocked.

That’s why you need to think about the company you’re going to invest in.

Your critique is accurate for too many companies, yes. But by far not for all.

That you deliver reasons for why you claim I’m wrong.

It’s freemium, not free. As I said before, OpenAI limits the number of prompts you can make per hour in case you don’t want to pay. Also, using the API or ChatGPT 4 costs money. Users of search engines are usually not asked for money.

Well… as I said. OpenAI asks for money, search engines usually don’t. Ergo, OpenAI is not free. (But freemium.)

Despite claiming that’s not the case, you lack the necessary proof and don’t seem to care about countering my argument with something of substance.

Such a discussion will not be fruitful if you are unwilling to deliver.

The ones where you just claim that despite it being not true or which ones do you mean?

Yes, and consider what insane amount of pressure was necessary to achive this. Over 200.000 negative reviews for HD2. That makes it very unlikely to happen again. It shows how little gamers can achieve and how little their concerns are heard if they are not accumulating to a critical mass.

*they’re buying studios who make legendary games and kill them.

They are a parasite to the gaming landscape.

I’ve never been asked to pay for using one of the aforementioned search engines. I have been asked to pay for OpenAI products.

So I don’t see how you come to that conclusion.

It’s “freemium”, not free. There is a difference. You can’t use ChatGPT 4 without paying as well as the API. Also, you are limited in the number of prompts you can make per hour before you are put on pause and asked to pay.

Search engines like Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, etc. don’t ask you for money. Regardless how intensively you use it. (They might come with other drawbacks though like Google with privacy, environment, ethical principles, …)

Some may not have the money for such expenses.

Some may have ethical issues regarding how the CEO invests his profits into military companies. And Spotify makes less money with ads than with the subscription fee.

Some don’t want to pay for ad-free Spotify, since the subscription fee is much higher than what they make with ads. They don’t see the price as justified.

Some prefer other ways to listen to music, since they have an issue how a plethora of artists don’t really benefit from Spotify and are rather exploited. (Okay, those listeners are probably not meant here anyway as they are not affected.)

Some have a problem with such subscription services, especially if you do not own a copy of the music and there is a risk of the music, they like to listen to, being removed from Spotify’s library.

Some especially don’t want to pay for Spotify if they removed a feature, miss a feature or moved a feature behind the subscription, if that feature was previously available or should be available, because there are some things which are taken for granted or are usually expected and they protest against a business model of “creating value by taking something away”.

Some may be cheap, yes.

But surely not all of them. There can be many reasons and it’s usually a good idea not to shove all people of group X into a single drawer and judge them in such an inconsiderate way.

It feels to me like every second version of Windoof is shit if you start at XP (my first Windoof OS, no experience with earlier ones):

• XP guhd
• Vista shite
• 7 guhd
• 8 shite
• 10 guhd
• 11 shite

Until now I was able to skip every second version and could wait until the newer and better one was released. But now it seems that I need to make a complete switch to a suitable gaming Linux OS. I don’t have any other use for Windoof.

Your poll results feel therefore relatable to me. I want a system that just works and with which I can do everything I need to. I don’t mind testing new features. Often I welcome them. But if I can already expect that I have to adjust to new features which are unavoidable, and from which I can tell – either by reading reviews or testing myself – that I really don’t like them, then of course I stay with the system which doesn’t have them as long as I can still do everything I need to.