Travel to Beijing, open up Google search, and see if it gives you any historically accurate results about what happened there.

I’m serious, it sounds like you could use a lesson in freedom and the world outside your country.

Did the US government tell Google to censor Tiannamen Square, or are they a global company that has to observe more than the whims of a single country?

I hope other countries start renaming the US soon.

Why didn’t they change it only in the US and not elsewhere? Could you imagine the uproar if Google censored Tiananmen Square world wide because of the Chinese government?

PS: Yes it was modified for everyone outside the US too. I am not American but your “president” is now allowed to change what name I have to call something?

I’ve had problems with just regular package upgrades. Also to be fair, Windows does have service packs which can add significant new OS features without updating to a whole other version, so it’s not like Windows XP/Vista/7/10/11 stay the exact same from when you install them.

Plus the irony is that a lot of the features in this meme have to do with Wayland, and I can’t find many LTS releases that even use it? It’ll take years before these features are included in releases that aren’t bleeding edge and will still require a whole OS reinstall to actually get them.

Must have had bad luck! I mean I’ve fixed many a Windows computer in my time so I know it’s not perfect, but I guess my expertise helps me avoid a lot of the pitfalls of Windows by not loading up all kinds of dodgy software.

Linux though will break when you do everything right, and that’s what gets me every time.

I mean I’ve worked IT for decades so I know how to do this stuff, but I also don’t want to do it after 8 hours of being paid to do it at work and all I want is to pull up a game to play on my free time without any more effort.

Linux is only free if your time is free. I also would never recommend Linux to anyone who isn’t an IT professional. 🤷

I’ve had Windows installations that chugged along for 10 years with only regular software updates. It does get slow and bloated over time, but it keeps working without any maintenance or fixing.

Meanwhile I can’t find a Linux distribution that doesn’t self-destruct in about 6 months of regular desktop use. Every time some software update corrupts GRUB, breaks X/Wayland, or something else that unexpectedly makes my computer unusable and requires me to spend hours fixing it or in some cases giving up and installing a different distro.

Let me know when a desktop Linux distro is as reliable as my 10 year old Windows install please.

The solution is simple, but not easy: Stop using their products. A mass exodus of their users will quickly take away their power.

Stop using all Alphabet/Google products. Other search engines, email providers, streaming video, and even cell phone operating systems exist. Switch to them.

Stop using all Meta products. Other social networks and messaging applications exist. Switch to them.

Stop buying from Amazon and watching their streams. Other online stores and streaming media exists. Switch to them.

Keep going for every company who has a billionaire CEO, owner, or shareholder. Their fortunes will evaporate quickly.

I’ve been moving over to Fastmail. Easy to use, tons of features, great price. 👍

Also quick tip regardless of which provider you end up on: Register a domain name for yourself and use it for your email address. This way if you want to change email providers again in the future or even host it yourself, you can take your domain name and addresses with you.

Maybe neither Democrats or Republicans are to blame, but instead it’s the wealthy capitalists who have been using their growing money and influence to force both political parties into supporting a genocide.

Plenty of CEOs of major US companies have shown their support for Israel, but very few have even acknowledge Palestine. The rest of us are just peasants living under the lie that our votes actually could meaningfully change this.

I wonder how many of the Reddit comments were from inauthentic sock puppets. I’d guess that subreddit was also used by influence peddlers to train and test their own human disinformation agents too.

Crabs in a bucket. They don’t care if things get worse for them as long as they inflict the same suffering on everyone else.

I guarantee Anthropic is still using AI to go through all the applications, and is likely using them to train specialized models which AI generated text would subtly poison or collapse.

Just run your LLM slop through an obfuscator or reword a few things here and there and voila, more chum for the slop bucket! 👍

You’re asking this question on Lemmy? Where have you been?

Don’t worry, Alberta’s premier already has her head so far up Trump’s ass that she will never allow a retaliatory tariff on oil. I’m calling now that if the federal government pushes it through anyway, then Alberta will immediately try to leave Canada and join the US.

We’re gonna be fucked either way because the country will tear itself apart over a response while getting economically strangled.

Nothing, just like the thing you experienced before you were born.

Well, the models start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’…

The US tech sector has just been completely disrupted. Turns out decades of slashing public education and demonizing “liberal” colleges is starting to catch up. Even Elmo himself said that H1B visas are critical because the US simply isn’t producing enough talent, but he and the other tech billionaires didn’t realize that money can’t buy everything, as they are now being shown with their pants down.

He’s going to slap 100% tariffs on all network packets passing in and out of China! That will fix everything including the price of eggs!

Don’t forget about the tariffs too! The US economy is actually a joke that can’t compete on the world stage anymore except by wielding their enormous capital from a handful of tech billionaires.

Yup. Now I also get that exposure and engagement are important to small businesses, but to that end they shouldn’t lock themselves to one place either. Point out the benefits of more open solutions like Bluesky and Mastodon, and the benefits of setting up their own hosted site/blog that they can then broadcast on social media but slowly cut them out as a middle man by pushing customers to their site directly.

And most certainly businesses should never use the “algorithm” on social media to collect data or get “free” advertising such as those “like/repost to win” style posts. Those are not free advertising, those are doing free data collection work for Meta.