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I’d rather have Mohammed Atta as a copilot than Microsoft’s insufferable tool.

  • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    There are great masses of the public who are very indifferent to it, it will be forced into their lives and they’ll accept the new normal, and will get so used to it that they will be unable to imagine it ever going away.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      this ^ year after year, decade after decade, the development and adoption of new features in computer technology have been driven not by user demand, but by the career aspirations of big tech middle managers and overpaid marketing slobs. they’ve made the personal computer a nightmare machine for the average person, but without a solid footing in a liberatory computing paradigm, they have no means to do otherwise.