Linux is so light and fast. Im not missing much on windows.

Theil reproduced?

First generation not better, brighter, more adaptable than the prior generation. Fitting, given everything else.

Addisons maybe?

Wow. He got old.

Spot on with this perspective.

They’re management on a nice suit insisting everyone show up for content that’s so exciting it’s better left to an email.

Now, I can’t unsee it.

Except AOC and Bernie, of course, they have their shit together.

This would be more apt if it was a bloated corpse with flies circling.

You shall buy, not produce. Have your crafts, but don’t get entrepreneurial with it.

This is coordinated. Multiple states at the same time.

I don’t think it has anything to do with guns. Middle of the bell curve, most people aren’t using these for guns. They’re using these for right to repair. They’re using these for garage businesses. Shop businesses. Small businesses. (See: not corporate USA). Or for making/creatimg.

I’ve no doubt there are people sitting on some small slice of a tail on the bell curve who do print gun parts, but this is about corporate America.

It’s also a foot in the door dig on free and open source software.

It’s a way to block individual and small business from horning in on corporate America’s profit for a comparably tiny slice of their own.

Printing a knob to replace a broken on/off switch instead of buying a whole new item? Worse, selling that item or even just posting the pattern for free? We can’t have that.

Now, you’re bypassing my item’s proprietary system by printing…

Wait. I was able to sell threaded hand screw knobs for $5 each. Now you’re all just printing them? And the pattern is up there for free?

We need a law.

It’s all being dumped into data centers now. Google and Meta don’t need your face to prove who you are to create a new login, they need it to link data. What’s awful is the need to log in is so intense, it worked. Apparently YouTube aspirations are worth it. And shopping Facebook marketplace.

Now, Amazon isn’t allowing returns for many an individual without a pic or upload of government issued ID. Amazon allowed you to both pay and have an item shipped without this ID. But for a return, they now need it. I’m not saying this ask isn’t multipurpose, but it also links your data together and is probably being dumped into data centers with everything else.

My point is, it’s not just Microsoft’s choices.