this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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Because hardware is getting cheaper by the day, especially RAM and SSDs, so I should be happy I get to rent a reviled, unwanted, AI-crammed OS from Microslop to put on my not-at-all expensive new machine I have to buy just to run it, that will package all my data up and send it home on the regular, via bandwidth I also pay for, to use it to train their AI for free, along with every other byte of private data they're stealing around the world as fast as they can get their hands on it. But wait, I'm not happy enough! Because then Microslop also gets to sell that same private, personally-generated data along with geolocation and wifi triangulation and every other privacy-obliterating feature they can cram in with it to advertisers for ad targeting wherever I go, as well as to my own hostile government as surveillance should I happen to be brown, not cis-het, and/or suspected of engaging in thoughtcrime. AND there's even a bonus! My subscription fees, as well as my data sold every which way they can flog it to others of the Epstein class, will very likely fund Microslop's direct involvement in genocide, just as it has done in Gaza and elsewhere. Win/win all around!
Yeah, no. Shitty company, shitty product, enshittifying the world one PC at a time. Fuck that.
Not only do you get to pay for the hardware to be able to use the software, and then pay for the software to be allowed to use it. When you use the software it siphons various user data off of you to train their AI with, so that you, the valued customer, can also pay for that AI service.