By that logic owning anything is theft.

It can be exploitative, but it’s not automatically so. Both parties benefit from the agreement in different ways.

Rent isn’t theft. It’s payment for a service. Whether or not that service is of value to you is a different story, but not everyone is interested in owning.

There are benefits to renting. You don’t have to be financially responsible for repairs, you don’t have to do maintenance or pay someone to do it for you, you have much less financial risk, and you can relocate much easier.

And not all landlords are rich people. I do agree that corporate ownership of residential property shouldn’t be allowed, though.

Ah, thanks for clarifying. I didn’t think you were disagreeing, I just thought I didn’t make my point well enough (which I didn’t since I didn’t reiterate the stance I was referring to).

That’s pretty much the gist of it. Human inertia is a hell of a drug.

The general population isn’t even aware that Linux exists.

I’m not saying that installing Linux is something the general population is incapable of. My comment was in response to all of the people astounded that people still use Windows.

That wasn’t a Microsoft issue. It was a bad driver from the company.

I think it’s really easy for Lemmy users to assume that the general population has the same technological interest and literacy that they do.

The Windows 11 users they are talking about are from an /r/pcmasterrace thread.

The vast, vast majority of consumers don’t give a shit. They don’t care enough to even think about whether their computer is actually secure, they don’t care that they don’t own their OS, and they don’t care that AI is being shoved in.

Their computer is a magic box to them, and they don’t care to know more.

They also did something to the store that makes our endpoint management software think it’s a virus.

Because the vast majority of users don’t care enough to change what they’re used to and learn something new. They just don’t care that they don’t own their computer.

Don’t underestimate human inertia.

Hell, if MS ever really starts pushing VDI, I guarantee there will be mass adoption.

Yeah, I actually had one who gave out his textbook for free, but definitely had the mixture you did.

It wasn’t until my IT courses that they straight up told us to pirate it.

Our professors would just show us how under the guise of “definitely don’t do this”.

You’re assuming that it wasn’t caught. He could have easily been informed and did it anyway because opsec is in opposition to their goals.

They want to make us vulnerable.

I’m sure most of his base will rub one out to it.

The “In God We Trust” bit on our money leaves out that money is God now.

Not kinda, it is problematic.

It’s always not an admission. Sometimes it’s more expensive to win a case than to pay out.

Not saying that’s what happened here, but a settlement doesn’t always mean the one who settled is at fault.

Depends on if it’s a state or federal charge.

For planes there’s a catalytic process that can turn ethanol into jet fuel.

Yeah, my mom asked me for suggestions on a new computer since hers couldn’t do win11, so I just threw mint on it. She had no trouble making the switch.