An insightful blog post from Charlie Stross (npub1dnd…hzjs) summarising a lot of the furor over #microsoft #recall. The snark at the end about Microsoft making 2025 the year of Linux on the desktop made me realise a small thing that I think is important:
MS is the last hold-out still charging money for a consumer operating system. Obviously Linux is free and Apple tries to prevent their OS running on non-Apple hardware, but only MS charges you for the privilege of enduring their #AI force feeding. You’re paying them money and you’re STILL not the customer.
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html
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