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I actually talked to several lawyers about this lol

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Oh good tip actually thank you.

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Because yeah you can be a jagoff and say I’m gonna put Mint or Arch on a laptop but that doesn’t fully get windows out of our life, you’re sucked in again

e (they/them) @certificates.bsky.social · 3h

So I’ve been trying to approach the idea of divesting from windows less as a “there are alternatives that can theoretically work” angle because that’s passive and hasn’t worked and more an active “what are the friction points in order to be fully free?” angle and yeah this is part of this.

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microsoft is so entrenched via directory services, orgs can't divest from them without tearing their own skeleton out. this incentivizes (to some extent) azure for cloud, staying on O365 despite how bad most of it is. add to this how utterly shitty Google enterprise is (fisher price version of MS)

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I’ve known people that developed a duster habit and I think it’s the worst one you can have, pure nihilism.

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Something I actually have been trying to parse out is how you’d go about finding an alternative to AD DS, like that seems to be the biggest problem for most orgs.

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Right but what I mean is I think people are devaluing the strategic nature of their operating system because of raw profitability but it still serves as a launchpad for their more profitable services and nobody is even close to their market share when it comes to personal, non-server computers.

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Oh yeah like a stupid amount of money I am afraid

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 4h

Saying that Azure is the real money maker for Microsoft while Windows is not is on paper true but they still make a shitload off of Microsoft 365 and Windows’ market share does support that.

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Absolute Martian Manhunters power is so crazy I just saw a white boy recite the Shahada in his car over it

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 4h

even if you sign up for free (there's a free tier!) you're still helping us out

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 4h

Have been finally getting around to reading this and it lives up to its reputation

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 4h

You’re right about security services and compliance however there’s also a growing push in EU countries to distance themselves from American tech for sovereignty reasons.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 4h

I agree that Azure is the money maker although windows is still not insignificant and ultimately Microsoft 365 is the product that is the most interesting here. They’re a services company and Windows does support their services even if they functionally give the OS away.

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Would be funny if they accidentally put Mario in Halo and got sued.

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Ladies and gentlemen, we got her.

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My longstanding opinion is that Arch is fine but more often than not it’s for people that want to break their computers as a hobby. I’m too old for that.

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Netscape @netscape.bsky.social · 5h

Appropriate that Microsoft saw a bunch of projects, half of which were non-functional, where nobody checked the code and where their creators had no intent to maintain them, and thought “this is the future”

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YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

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Oh yeah Bazzite is real solid it’s what I use

Yeah but the problem is that their strategy for AI is also bad.

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It’s the most publicly fried I’ve seen one of these execs be, just a full concession that you don’t know what you’re doing

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$I’m going to be frank here: except in an ideological, pro-AI sense that devalues labor, I do not think any of these vibe coded decomp projects are actually good for Microsoft generally or Windows and Xbox specifically. This initiative seems so vague as to be undefinable, and the XBOX LABS splash page itself does not reveal much except a place to put your email and a bunch of footage of existing Microsoft properties put through an overly slick and tacky code effect. But if we are to take Sharma at her word that she is influenced by seeing projects like Mario in Elden Ring and software that theoretically shatters the cage of existing software ecosystems and “challenge[s] our existing business models”, then that sucks for Windows, because nobody on earth actually enjoys using Windows or the basic business model that underpins the entire operating system. Windows exists on the back of countless, tiny de facto monopolies. If the future of coding is limitless and agentic like these people believe, then nobody would ever install Windows 11 ever again. If they believe that these models are capable of producing infinite, good, complex software at a fraction of the cost, then they are conceding on some level that the rent-seeking nature of their existing software and OS ecosystem is inevitably cooked. And if they think that Copilot is going to be good or profitable enough to make up for a world where software is produced on demand, they have yet to realize that Copilot sucks ass and is a joke even among people who enjoy using AI.$

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 8h

Got really annoyed at that Sharma letter because the more I looked at XBOX LABS the less I knew what it was actually supposed to be vs. what she claimed it was.

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Side note, did you ever watch Guy Maddin's Rumors?

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 8h

best climate change movie....wrong again

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 8h

one of the weirdest developments on twitter is whoever runs the Janus Films account just posts like a film person who doesn't even seem to know or care about movies made released by janus films

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah and people hated his ass for it

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 9h

Someone submitted a vibe coded core and I’m really pissed off now. This game is art.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 9h

Wait is this AI bullshit

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but black dynamite, I sell existing business models to the community

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Are you so on x that you not understand how this is bad for you??? news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/1...

In recent weeks, we’ve seen games rapidly decompiled and rebuilt to run on hardware they were never originally designed to support. Windows PC builds have been translated to run on Apple Silicon or ported to run inside a browser through WebAssembly and WebGPU, the latter now approaching 90% global browser support. Perhaps more surprisingly, we’ve seen many of the biggest games in the world have been remixed into the source code of another.

These experiments challenge long-held assumptions about our industry: the tether between software and hardware, the boundary between creation and play, and how people discover and experience games. While it is hard to predict the future of gaming, it is easy to see the possibilities in making great games easier to access, giving old games new life and allowing more players to become creators and co-creators. These are unmistakably good outcomes for players, even when (and sometimes because) they challenge our existing business models.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10h

To be honest the surround sound option is probably the most interesting thing about the new HomePod mini but I believe this feature already existed in some weird form and they need to just commit to making a sound bar/sound system instead of "you can turn these into one if you have a Apple TV"

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New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

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Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work

Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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I will say HomeKit Secure Video is much more secure about this kind of shit than other cameras as a format, but yeah feels weird.

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Yeah it looks like a weird version of the Apple Watch, right?

Maybe you can do the Siri shit in there already I don't know I just find the idea of a family sharing texts in a single device that is not profile gated except by face ID to be like a terrifying pretext for five million fights

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I would be interested in a version of the Apple HomeView that did not have access to your texts and didn't have Siri or Apple Intelligence but also I'm not the regular use case here.

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Here are all the new HomePod Mini 2 colors

I think it's basically the same but they upgraded the guts and it does a color thing now www.theverge.com/tech/1009935...

theverge.com

We saw the HomePod Mini 2 in action.

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