You ever see someone whose clearly abused by their spouse/parent/whatever and you’re like “you gotta get away from them”…but they’re like “no it’s okay I need this, and it’s not that bad, most of the bruises are under my shirt”.
My OS is not abusing me. I’m fine. In fact it’s been incredibly empowering for the last 40 years. I mean it WAS abuse back then, trying to install the damn thing from those 5.25" floppies. Now it’s smooth as butter and I love it because I remember the journey from then to now so clearly.
No, it is abusing you. What you’re describing is akin to the conditioning and grooming most abusers are good at.
You just got used to all the data collection and telemetry and restrictive licenses and not owning your own computer or your software. Your abuser has made you think it’s all okay.
It’s not okay. This is the consumer abuse that the whole damn industry is getting away with.
I doubt MS could change for the better. People still keep on enabling them no matter how hard they hit the users or admins. Part of that is because they’ve got you reliant on them. All of your apps, all of your files, everything is in their system.
Does this sound familiar? Sort of like how abusers will control their victims financial and social activity?
Honestly I never thought of this analogy before today and it seemed to be in bad taste because of the seriousness of abuse…but the similarities are there…
You ever see someone whose clearly abused by their spouse/parent/whatever and you’re like “you gotta get away from them”…but they’re like “no it’s okay I need this, and it’s not that bad, most of the bruises are under my shirt”.
It’s sorta like that.
My OS is not abusing me. I’m fine. In fact it’s been incredibly empowering for the last 40 years. I mean it WAS abuse back then, trying to install the damn thing from those 5.25" floppies. Now it’s smooth as butter and I love it because I remember the journey from then to now so clearly.
No, it is abusing you. What you’re describing is akin to the conditioning and grooming most abusers are good at.
You just got used to all the data collection and telemetry and restrictive licenses and not owning your own computer or your software. Your abuser has made you think it’s all okay.
It’s not okay. This is the consumer abuse that the whole damn industry is getting away with.
The urge to shout “HE CAN CHANGE! YOU DON’T KNOW HIM LIKE I DO!” is pretty strong right now 🤣
I doubt MS could change for the better. People still keep on enabling them no matter how hard they hit the users or admins. Part of that is because they’ve got you reliant on them. All of your apps, all of your files, everything is in their system.
Does this sound familiar? Sort of like how abusers will control their victims financial and social activity?
Honestly I never thought of this analogy before today and it seemed to be in bad taste because of the seriousness of abuse…but the similarities are there…