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2 years agoIt started off well enough, but then it began talking about “left-wing propaganda” being promoted by Microsoft - an inherently right-wing capitalist corporation - and instantly lost all credibility. I expected it to degenerate into Covid denialism and tinfoil hat-wearing antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes. Hardly a way to win over “normies” by sounding like an absolute freak in the first place.
Edit: Just checked and to be fair, the entire instance describes itself as “content on liberating your electronics from the tyranny of left wing Big Tech surveillance.” God that’s some mental gymnastics right there: left-wing capitalism. Please read a book.
Oh, totally. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve helped folks with their computers and most of their problems seem to be from using Windows: “I’m confused about antivirus,” “I keep forgetting to check on updates for the program I use so much,” “I’m unsure if I’m on the correct site to download an exe file from,” “I keep getting ads in my taskbar,” “I was going to find a different browser to use but my computer dissuaded me from doing so,” and on and on, and I just think “If only you’d simply try Linux.”