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Cake day: January 8th, 2026
  • Butterphinger@lemmy.ziptoLinux@programming.dev•After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all
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    12 hours ago

    ya got me! I knew

    My prediction is that by 2040, Windows and your entire online existence as a… “normie” will be encapsulated within walled gardens via client access almost entirely.

    Those of us still able to host anything will be doing it with ebay finds and crowsourced parts.

    …but this is but one of my many branching possible timelines, maybe we get the “America goes KEN mode” timeline, “Mother nature rolls her sleeves up” or the “Humanity finally stands up for itself and realizes a leftist/socialist utopia” timelines. There’s always the “China sics robot dogs with machineguns on everyone” timeline.

    Hell, maybe a blend, idk.

  • Butterphinger@lemmy.ziptoLinux@programming.dev•After three months on Linux, I don’t miss Windows at all
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    16 hours ago

    There’s a dangerous bet going on right now that doesn’t make the most sense.

    It’s Microsoft.

    I just don’t really understand their game right now. They’re still playing like every card in the game is in their hand and they have nothing to lose, so I wonder, Linux friends, fellow enjoyers of hardware sold to the public, what do they know that we don’t know?

    It’s almost as if Microsoft and every other hardware and mainstream software developer is secretly betting on the loss of private home computing. It’s almost as if in the longrun, they aren’t worried about our choices.

    These Linux wins all over the place are cool and all, but the lack of any sweat whatsoever from these bozos has me on edge. Wtf is their game? From AAA gaming to your email client, it’s all getting worse and they know it, they just keep doubling down.