Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I would love it if someone could share a counterexample. I want it to be true that companies don't just turn evil but can become better too.
Psychopaths (shown here)[1] show up where ever there is money and power, make life shit for all the better / empathetic staff, who end up leaving, gut the place and move onto the next company once it's trashed.
[1] https://pics.me.me/ha-ha-business-pig-roll-com-guys-i-havent...
Would you like to login to your own computer with an online microsoft account - again no way to turn off the nag
Want to exit Teams or Onedrive? nag
And both m$ an google (via chrome) are scanning your computer for executables - for your safety of course!
When they change the terms of iCloud use the options are agree or the passive aggressive “Maybe be latter”.
That really means we’ll keep asking you until you agree.
Any company using the phrase “maybe latter” instead of “no” is not one you can trust.
Wsl, the barely usable product with breaking bugs, such as simple disk io, until wsl2 came to improve _some_ of the features? Nah.
The most detrimental change to IT, containers, still depends on hyper-v for networking in the latest version and can only build for the same kernel.
Cheap PR for garbage products to try and push PC monopoly.
And yes, the people using Windows and deploying to Linux use WSL2 now instead of WSL. They used to run a Linux VM or dual boot. Another success for Microsoft. WSL2 can also run GUI applications. They'll end up controlling the Linux desktop.
Secondly, I found it very difficult to install another browser like chrome. It wouldn’t let me install chrome unless I downloaded a specific app from Microsoft store to allow my machine to use another browser besides edge. All the while closing annoying pop ups about how edge is just like chrome.
I’m done with their products.
I looked on DDG for _ubuntu turn on a usb disk after it was switched off_ and it didn't return anything related to the query. I added !g and Google gave me [1] as the second result.
[1] https://superuser.com/questions/1626369/power-off-external-d...
I’d bet that an experienced ddg user might have workarounds for this kind of thing. I’ve certainly found adding a few extra terms gives me what I need.
Today I'm quite skeptical of any business that doesn't have a proper business model. I've seen it too many times: offer nice free things until you have enough users, and then start squeezing. Bait and switch.
At this point I'm more interested in internet search that isn't reliant on the goodwill and dignity of a private company.
But they have? DDG was founded 13 years ago...
And "bussiness model": https://wikiless.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo?lang=en#Business_model And: https://www.nichepursuits.com/how-does-duckduckgo-make-money...
Still fallback to !g bangs on every couple of days.
If true, that means our social pressure on Google (and Facebook, collaterally) is working, and we should keep applying it.
The right thing to do would be to pop up a question asking if I want to opt in, keeping it to off if dismissed.
Considering all the other blocking modals Google is forcing me through as part of CAPTCHA when surfing the web, that should not be a big deal.
Opting an existing user into data retention without asking them is never defensible, and I imagine this will result in heavy fines in the EU down the line (after all, private individuals can be Workspace admins as well, it’s not strictly used by businesses)
[real time search ongoing]
Goodness how have I not known this?!
I recall seeing it as sluggish and awkward when I finally decided to check it, abusing Ajax. Other web interfaces (that I tried) were more lightweight and predictable, and regular mail clients I found to be a much better UX. So I've mostly attributed Gmail popularity to Google promoting it, possibly using that invite-only policy to make the users to spread the invitations. It sounds like at least some users actually liked it, but I don't think it's a clear example of a good service by Google.
I recommended people use Google in part because there was, at the time, less risk of them clicking on something and being confused by it. (Why is there news in my email? Where's my email? How do I search?)