Seems minor. If they wanted people to pay for it, they would block games since thats what most young people use windows for…

Yes but capitalism = profits is all that matters.

Also since big tech has more money than almost anything, they become illegal unofficial kings in a world where money is all that matters. They influence entire elections and what information is able to be shared.

Yeah. I havent used windows in a long time but when I was, you could play games without any license… What is locked?

Actually these days, windows is free because what Microsoft wants is your user data. And unless you stop that from being sent to Microsoft, you are generating profit for them every time you use your computer.

Its actually brilliant. Every day when people turn on their computer or phone, Microsoft and Google makes billions from their time. By doing nothing. Passive income.

I would never go to see a movie with such a person. Wtf.

And she is 40…she sounds like a teenager.

Yeah its so strange to watch people treat Trump as a good guy. What the hell is going on. I can only assume Americans are overworked and overstressed and cant think anymore. I probably would be too in that country.

Trump will always do what is in his own best interest, money or power wise. He gives zero fucks about anyone else.

The thing is, its not going to fall apart forever (unfortunately). Billions are invested by all big tech companies into enormous server farms just for AI and their entire future stock value is now based on them coming up with a way to make a profit from this.

Replacing humans can lead to a lot of profit since salaries are one of the most expensive things in a company.

So I dont know. I think the future will suck. But what else is new.

Its a hard question to answer. How many jobs are created by those people? Is it a net positive or negative compared to someone who doesnt create any successful company in his life?

I think I just hate the personality of the American billionaries. They are missing a lot of things inside, but that is also why they work so hard, because they need attention and feeling superior to others. Happy people dont even compare themselves to others very much and they feel good just having enough money to get a decent place to live, a decent car and decent food every day. And a partner to make life feel meaningful.

Of course now, young women are being totally brainwashed by social media so now they think they need to find rich single guys and ignore 90% of guys out there, which makes it hard to find a partner.

Its all part of the larger plan of making men feel like they dont have a purpose. Its just psyops. But thats a different discussion…

No I dont think we should destroy taxes. But I would love if they actually benefitted the majority of people, like you and me. After 50 years of being here on this planet, I havent seen that happening. I see old people getting poor health care, living on very little pension, and being forgotten by society.

All im saying is that the system is largely just sucking up money from everybody and using it for things the majority will never benefit from. We are easily talking many many millions in taxes over the years that you and I will never see again.

And of course you can say, shouldnt we pay taxes to support the weak in society? Yes, but again, i dont see that happening. I see old people being poor, i even see people being homeless. I see a lot of pain every day in people who actually need help but dont get it, because in capitalism, profits matter, not people.

So I guess im pretty much saying that taxes in capitalism ends up being profits for someone rich, not you and me. And also in communism, all systems I would guess. Because there isnt any system that puts human happiness above profits.

Always have been my friend.

Good one :)

Thats one way of looking at it, sure.

Another way is that you could have had that money in your bank now, living a better life, maybe being able to stop working earlier, spending time with your family and friends, not feeling exhausted all the time.

Of course we have to pay some taxes but many people dont see any positive results from it at all, in the shape of better schools, roads, or whatever.

Yeah I agree. We have to wake up a bit. Real change happens outside of this place.

I didnt ask Ai before i made this comment.

Its a natural home grown comment, 100% AI free, from one of my favorite braincells.

Wait until you do the math on how many millions you are paying in tax to the state, and what you get back for it. Almost nothing gets back to you.

I think our entire way of working is completely fucked up. Trading our time here for money, working until we are exhausted. For what. Then we get old and has lost the energy of youth, at some corp desk.

Its honestly a tragedy what we spend our lives doing.

We arent smarter. Actually most people here have no voice or influence outside of their computer screen.

We can use some tech, sure. But I very much challenge the idea that we are smarter as a group than other university students.

But since a lot of us have poor social skills, we compensate by thinking we are smarter or better, when we should instead train our social skills and stop thinking like that.

Edit: You meant they dont work to access things outside of China of course.

You cant ban vpns, its easy for tech people to set up a vpn server on any server on the internet and connect to it. Wireguard for example, super simple.

Yeah there are some differences. Flatpaks are not updated when you update your system but you can run the “flatpak update” command to update all your Flatpak apps at once.

After install, it should just work. :)

That can happen if you have an old version. Happened to me a few times also. It just means YouTube changed something so you need to update and see if its been fixed.

Go to freetubeapp.io and make sure you have installed the latest version which is 0.23.5 beta right now.