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Perhaps I’m the one who misread. I took OP’s comment as saying working for a foreign company with no presence in the US while living in the US. On a second read, that might not be what they meant.

Because money keeps getting deposited in your bank account every two weeks and you’re not reporting any income.

Banks hand all of that information over.

Good, they absolutely should be.

Good lord I would hope critical surgical computers like that aren’t networked externally… Somehow I’m guessing I’m wrong.

Sure. I could accept hearing “Windows is more polished than most Linux distro’s”. But to say blankly that Windows is polished is crazy talk. It’s jank as balls. Its got like 3 totally discrete and independent UI frameworks for the menus operating in parallel, and somehow none of them provide all the functionality you would need, have to mix and match them.

That’s just a single example. I could rant for hours.

I agree with your point, but I never would have thought of describing Windows as “polished”.

I can’t be bothered to learn git.

How to become unemployable as an engineer 101.

Dumb take. I don’t need to sit down and have a beer with my anti-vax MAGA neighbors to understand them. I understand them just fine, they’re brain damaged morons.

Well that other guy said it’s only 66megs so, you’re wrong.

/s

Great rebuttal. Really got him with this one.

That ship has long sailed unfortunately. The industry gave up on optimization in favour of praying that hardware advancements can keep up with the bloat.

Sam Altman was actually president of Y combinator from 2014 - 2019. An interesting connection when you realise HN has been actively removing news critical of the Gen AI bubble hype.

How else was he supposed to keep the user base up!???

Yep

That being said, just yesterday I looked at the man page for gcc because I wasn’t sure how to use a specific option and it was very useful. Gave me exactly the info I needed.

Maybe there is some merit to simply reading the documentation instead of asking to be spoon fed… I’m prepared to be downvoted to oblivion for this opinion.

My point was to illustrate a comparable big corpo’s flippant response to negative PR.

We’ve entered a stage in the software industries development where these mega corps are making so much money off of your data that they simply don’t care about PR, very often responding to negative PR in a consumer hostile manner.

Besides, Microsoft has been scraping personal data through Windows for over a decade. Why would they stop now? Business/enterprise licenses will likely have the ability to disable the recall feature. Regular consumers can go fuck themselves, as usual.

Would Microsoft even care? Do normies think about this kind of thing?

Google’s gemini has been delivering some pants-on-head stupid results in the search and Google’s comment on the situation was basically “ya, it do be that way”.

You lack imagination. What happens when the system mistakenly identifies someone as a violent offender and they get tackled by a bunch of cops, likely resulting in bodily injury.

He’s not. There were unsubstantiated accusations from a disgruntled former employee that were proved to be false.

Some people just hear what they want though.

Didn’t mention I’ve been using Linux since before the twin towers fell

Is this supposed to be some kind of flex? Average user age on lemmy is more than old enough for the majority of users to have been using linux pre 9-11.

am a long term open source dev and contributor…

That is a flex, kudos. I’ve been dreaming about contributing to an open source project for a while now.