In ex-USSR it was pretty intentional.

It is still a thing, but nobody wants to use it, because the flaws of other systems they want to use for themselves.

Starlancer was nice I think

Well, how can one speak about some thing’s author, the person who has built it from scratch, as of someone who can ruin it or not?

That said, it’s hard for me to read her in English, and I’ve read HP mostly in at least three translations to Russian, one official and two unofficial ones. The former sucks, and from the latter two the one which reads the best is by the least professional translator (actually she’s not a translator at all), and I mean Maria Spivak (the original one to circulate in the Runet and samizdat versions, not the abomination published much later).

It communicates the feeling of mad and a bit hooligan-ish fairy tale, I suspect that emotionally it’s the closest to the original.

Anyway, it’s pretty normal for an author to have a magnum opus and the rest of their works to just not make sense.

Some were standing before me, but TBH they likely had acquaintances working in one government embezzling money.

She’s not an idiot, but literally every other piece of writing she’s ever put out kinda slams the “smarter than most of humanity” line.

EDIT: accidental keypress

This happens and doesn’t mean that she

lucked into an amazing world that managed to remain a good story despite her writing, not because of it

, everyone who has, you know, actually created something knows that from experience.

Doesn’t quite cut it.

Now if there’s no other option or if the variant with Linux is labeled as “other” or “no OS”, and listed separately, normies still choose Windows 99% of cases. Sometimes they pirate it.

They should have a clear choice in the store from a few OSes with details. Summaries with screenshots will do.

I had some, but not anymore.

Man I’m gonna have to bite the bullet and make my next machine a linux one

Make a compressed backup and try with this one. You’ll feel good.

Life sentence. Solved.

I don’t like solving things with regulation, because that’s always a victory in one battle making the enemy stronger for all the following ones.

But doing this EU-style, like browser choice, only with operating systems, can be a solution.

People love cheap and easy things. That’s how social media won over normal web. Seeing the choice between “install Fedora for freeeeeee” and “install Windows for 20$” significant amount will choose the former.

I’ve been called a sovereign citizen as an insult, though I’m just a voluntarist (not sure if ancap or generic anarchist), and that sometimes was past the point of me saying

things like “Listen here you little shit”

but I’ll admit “the society” wasn’t persuaded. Though sometimes it felt that possibly more than half of the people present agreed, but were confident that the majority doesn’t.

It’s actually a very good propaganda strategy - even if most people disagree with you (as the bad guy), what’s important is that they believe that others agree and thus keep their heads down.

Windows 2000 was amazing, though. Something really inspiring belief in good corporations and bright capitalist future. LOL

Frugality is what powers evolution. These people don’t want evolution, they want to build a religion.

It’s a text generator. All these people, were they to live in Antiquity, would jump ship to ship trying to visit every oracle and prophet in the Mediterranean asking questions about universe and seeking deep meaning in short texts of the Chinese fortune cookie kind.

This is even more dumb when even Joan f-g Rowling in her books about magic for children described how and why magic can’t do this. One of the reasons I like Harry Potter - not for the plot or the human part, but for the magic there being quite similar to computers in our time. With similar limitations, except for unique cases.

So no matter how much one hates Rowling (I don’t, she’s done more good than evil by far still), she’s smarter and more decent than most of the humanity. That sucks.

I wonder if all this is to burn enough energy to make ignorant people believe that we have AI. And then use that AI as a justification of the existing order of things, the same way “civil contract” is. That it’s not really technical, but rather a very big and expensive propaganda campaign for abolishing democracies.

Another attempt to approach king Midas’ powers by turning matter into shit, because apparently if we can turn it into shit, then eventually we’ll learn to turn it into gold.

It’s amazingly stupid. Among other things because it’s been described by Lem in either “Summa Technologiae” or “Megabit Bomb”, I don’t remember which. Possibly both.

But one doesn’t have to read Lem for the concept of entropy.

It just feels so boring. People with power showing with all their herd that they don’t deserve that power, because they don’t understand simple concepts.

They are behaving as if someone promised them to outlaw FOSS operating systems.

OK, it’s totally false now, but before that bill it was technically false, but practically usually true. I don’t live in Israel and kinda forgot that whole thing due to being more interested in it in the context of Israel arming Azerbaijan.