Slave Morals

All these slave morality and mentality motherfuckers are like, “Should master be able to beat me any time he likes or only three times a day?”

And they ask that as a sincere question. Like, they are invested in being slaves. They want it. They crave it. They love it.

I might still be forced to act like a slave at times but I’ll never justify it. I’ll never think it’s better. I’ll never just bend willingly into that. And that’s the difference between someone like that dude and me.

Fuck that guy and all the BS he stands for.

Obfus

Back then, UI was intended to make the operating system more usable and discoverable for the end users. It was not intended as a resume-builder for UI/UX types and was not aimed primarily at looking pretty for 15 seconds on a PowerPoint slide shown to MBAs.

That’s all changed. Additionally, modern OSes and applications are explicitly designed to steer you to ads and away from useful functionality.

Enshittification fully in action.

Alignment Problem

It sure is convenient that corporate interests align so very well with preventing dear old Grammy from sending her money to scammers in Nigeria (which she of course does anyway).

Surely it’s just coincidental that Google, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft preventing me from installing software on devices I fully and wholly own and surveilling me 24/7 are what is required to keep gramma and the kids safe.

You people who buy into all that, are you fucking stupid? What the goddamn hell is wrong with your brains? Do you just have no critical discernment nor ability to detect specious, risible arguments at fucking all?

FUCK.

Sideload My Fist

Are you allowed to run whatever computer program you want on the hardware you own?

What a dumbass.

Hell fucking yes I should be able to load whatever software I want onto hardware I own. Anything else is outright tyranny and should be punished severely.

This is just a scam alliance with a clown pretending to be “reasonable” and Google et al. who very much wish to prevent us from owning anything and with them being in control of all we see, experience, and are able to run.

Evil, evil all around.

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