Cyberwolf

but saying that a Chinese company isn’t “under the control of Xi Jinping”, the guy who crushed Hong Kong for having too much independence

Just take that sentence at face value and consider the ridiculousness of actually believing the guy alone has that amount of crushing power.

You’re just regurgitating unfounded US propaganda which, being on Lemmy, is very unfortunate to see.

If you think Xi Jinping is dictating what BYD does with their cars then you don’t understand the fundamentals as to why China managed to attract so much foreign investment and got to where they are now in the first place.

Chinese electric cars are just better. BYD is what Tesla wanted to be, but actually fulfills its promises. Plus it isn’t ran by a dictator.

I, too, am a Linux user.

Yeah… That explains the user experience Windows offers versus Mac.

Anybody who’s being honest will say Mac is nicer to use, especially non-tech people. Only nerds prefer the Windows design language over Windows.

Let’s face it: if Macs could run game as well as windows, Microsoft would go bankrupt tomorrow.

You get my meaning. I was referring to Broadcast TV, as you called it.

I don’t think the internet is more impervious to propaganda than cable TV tbh. YouTube has been pushing far-right propaganda since at least 2013. Quite effectively, too.

I think you’ll find that, sadly, nobody is worse for HIG than software engineers, especially Linux aficionados.

They like their design as unpalatable and shit-lookalike as possible.

I use both. They work well and get out of my way, while adding security. Just make sure you use a distro that has those things working OOTB and you’ll be fine.

It’s getting to the point where it’s better to just straight up ask Claude, not gonna lie.

I wish to compliment Microsoft of accurately prophesying that Windows 10 would be my last windows.

Don’t you get it? The propaganda needs you to be rallied into a constant state of China Bad sentiment, even if the excuses for such don’t make sense.

As another European, I flat out trust China more than the US. They don’t make BS like this up.

It’s just their devices just aren’t up to standards. Of all, only Pixel phones have the security features GrapheneOS is looking for. If that isn’t indicative of the garbage that OEMs are putting out there, I don’t know what is.

I feel like we’re living in a [Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start the Fire]

I don’t understand why you’d say this. The US 100% did start all these fires. Not only did they start them, they keep adding wood to the fire. It’s so blatant even a blind person could see.

Billy Joel has great song and I appreciate him as an artist, but I’ll he damned if he isn’t an imperialist justifier.

Same thing on Google results. I don’t use Google but I use what are basically frontends for Google and all it feeds you with every search are AI-generated websites.

Every Google search must be precedented by writing “Reddit”, now.

AI. BOTS. MILLENIAL INFANTILE DESIGN. CORPORATE SPEAK.

Gee, I wonder why people aren’t tripping over themselves to join this.

Instead, crony capitalism, abuse of power, or something else is more appropriate

So, standard capitalism stuff?

That would be 1 in 4 users and that’s just not accurate at all.

What you mean to say is 25% of Windows users still use windows 7.

Its still an alarming statistic, and no wonder bruteforce cyberattacks are still so effective today considering it hasn’t received security updates in like 10 years.

I sincerely hope those people aren’t connecting their devices to the internet like, at all.

I’m fairly sure at this point even using a Debian based distro is better than sticking to windows 7.

I understand, but my point is that MacOS is more than serviceable as a work-focused operating system. It is more than capable to replace Windows as long as you’re willing to accept a different work flow.

If you’re already on Linux then great, stay there. But the average consumer wants something easier to use, and MacOS is easy. More importantly, it doesn’t treat you like garbage like Windows does.

Speaking of, this video came to mind.

I disagree that Linux isn’t an alternative but even if it wasn’t, MacOS is.

Seems like Microsoft doesn’t mind having their userbase reduce another 20% and giving it to their main competitor.

Maybe this time they’ll change their ways.