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by Out_of_Characte 586 days ago
>Acting like distractionware being bundled into Windows as a new thing

Now I understand where our miscommunication is coming from. I just want to say that I never held that belief, I never stated that. The various games, third parties, ads and various other tactics fall in line with what's been said to be microsofts overarching theme of extend, embrace, extinguish. You are far more knowledgeable about the history and slippery slope windows is going down. So in that respect, I would agree that I am ignorant. I take no issue to that. Though in my ignorance, I reserve my right to let, an evidently minor issue, be the last drop in the bucket to call windows not just an operating system but also a tool for malicious intent towards the user to extract monetary gain beyond the provision of an abstraction layer for developing the programs we use today.

The only bright side to windows is that we're finally getting a truly dystopian cyberpunk machine that will stop at nothing to control their users while the the common folk are left with no options and no awareness of what those Ghz processors are actually used for. That is true ignorance and I'd hope you can see we're on the same team.

>It's not entirely out of characte

check my username

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> includes a shortcut for one of the most popular games at the time

> a tool for malicious intent

> truly dystopian cyberpunk machine

> claims to not be hyperbolic

Yeah sure friendo.