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I agree that such large-scale action is effective.

Masturbating, I'm masturbating. And so are you when you think that voting with your wallet does anything.

Indeed, you are thoroughly pacified. Your objections and moral outage quelled and your sense of significance sustained by the illusion that simply buying from a different conglomerate will have any impact.

Any suggestion that your impotent protest is inadequate must surely come from a childish fool.

Dude, people don't like to work on the weekends. They also don't like to schedule things on Mondays or Fridays. This means they had to use Tuesday for prep and Thursday was reserved for troubleshooting. It always had to be Wednesday. Welcome to the working world.

Unrelated to their question but I think Linux users would be more likely than windows users to opt out, when presented with such a prompt.

Oh no, someone posted something to the internet that I, personally, was already aware of! When will the tyranny end?

I think the point is that we're deluded to think that voting with our wallets does anything. You still work. You still buy. You still support the system. The one step you're taking only gets you partway from the couch to the refrigerator. It doesn't get you out the door and into a protest that would actually make a difference.

Windows 11 is enshitified enough to be annoying and loaded with government and corporate spyware enough to be alarming. Meanwhile, Linux has become user friendly, optimized for everything but the latest hardware and capable of running most games.

Wow, that's expensive. I'm a cheap ass. I've always had cheap, old Toyotas.

I can see how it's nice to have a more modern car but I just can't justify all the expenses. I'd rather retire sooner.

Janky but if it works, it works.

Oh, I just checked and I was wrong. I pay $61/month to Progressive for liability on a >20 year old small pickup truck in California. $100k per person, $300k per accident, in case I crash into a pile of Ferraris or something.

The liability is $50/month but uninsured motorist insurance is most of that additional $11.

I'm paying for insurance in case I get hit by someone who doesn't have insurance? Ridiculous.

That's wild. I pay less than $500 a year for like $100k in liability insurance. Maybe I'm just old and have a good record.

Do you have tickets?