It’s not diluting its answers, it’s making them softer to accommodate the interests of many customers and to the detriment of others.

This is more analogous to Firefox semi-deprecating compact mode and marking it as unsupported. It hurts some users. It helps those with poor vision and motor skills by making everything 10 sizes too large. I will never forgive them, but Firefox is in the mode where it’s actively hurting it’s own product in an attempt to mimic it’s competitor.

In neither case is this objectively hurting customers to benefit investors. In fact they’ve already stated that making the AI softer is more expensive. The reddit change was making it’s product worse for customers in a pre-IPO cash grab. The shift from treating customers first to treating investors first to treating founders/ceos first is enshittification. A change to a product you don’t like isn’t enshittification.

What’s nice of them is that they provide these easy to understand labels for themselves. “White male, mid 40s, used the word woke => avoid avoid avoid”

overuse of enshittification. It soon will lose all meaning, like the word meme, if you just use it to describe everything you don’t like.

Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

If it’s enshittification it’s still stage 0 where they are trying to figure out how to attract people to the service (ie the good times, ie not enshittification)

You aren’t locked in. You don’t materially lose anything by switching services. And it has options to change the conversational style.

It’s not enshittification.

This is what people usually mean these days when they talk about spyware. Not actually spyware, but counting how many hours you play each game or checking how long you refuse to update windows for.

But if you call it spyware you can write an article or fight on the internet.

It’s got like a “lite” version. You have to use the terminal to check if it’s enabled but that’s that Microsoft started doing in win10 home. I assume some asshat in marketing got the agreement they could keep their branding even if Microsoft gave out encryption for free.

Here it is https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/device-encryption-in-windows-cf7e2b6f-3e70-4882-9532-18633605b7df

Personally I found it made more sense to just bring an old pro license so I could be sure it was enabled.

It’s your bullet point number 1

Well now you’re definitely saying I’m not bait, so thank you, I agree.

You can’t enable encryption after the fact? What a backwards system…

Modern windows machines will be installed with bitlocker (full disk encryption). With manual installs it might not be.

Layoffs used to be less common prior to the itinerant CEO being the main type. Layoffs as a performance for shareholders even when it’s known that they hurt the long term stability of the company is 80s/90s.

The fight club idea was bombing a bunch of banks. This idea is mailing propaganda. These things are different.

Well if you’re in fact a woman or x, very unexpected. The vast majority of women either have been raped or know someone close to them who has been raped, and would not compare anything Microsoft is doing to raping a person. It boggles the mind.

If you’re in fact an older man, you should grow up and do better, and stop comparing Microsoft sending some innocuous telemetry to sexual assault.

Bait…at what? What exactly do you think I want from the person I’m responding to other than to make fun of their delusions? I suppose you’re saying it’s not good bait, which Id agree with.

Do you know what is in every script you run as root?

Op didn’t say social media companies today are like tobacco companies today. They said social media companies today are like tobacco companies at their worst.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Philip_Morris

This was 1999. Just because you’re under 25 doesn’t mean most of the world population is under 25.

The wiki

Lol you’re arguing like you’re an expert but only providing instructions for… what, fedora and rhel? And saying that running your package manager from the command line is to “feel like a hacker?” What a laugh. Fun fact there’s a range of distros that don’t have proper UIs for their package manager, and the vast majority don’t use dnf.

What exactly do you think is inside of those packages? Who made those scripts? You’re running those scripts as root. Is that safe?

Your jingoism is showing. Belgium is more dangerous per km travelled than the US. France is on par.

Basic doesn’t require extra sensors. If we had a camera for other reasons, 100% adaptive (or rather it should at least slow the car down if traffic slows)

Not as bad as google, but yeah they have a tendency to overstep. The only way to make settings stick is the traditional way, which is the group policy editor. Settings there usually stick for 20-30 years

I hate to alarm you but the entire planet knew climate change was going to happen 50 years ago because that was the 70s when this became well known.

Oil companies were noticing several decades before.