They are about more efficiency in enriching themselves. Forcing people back into inefficient office-based work is just a tool to fire huge chunks of them while filtering for those easier exploited.

Yes. Much more power to a small amount of rich morons and sycophants while firing most people actually doing government day-to-day work makes the government smaller…

In my experience the fuck ups on the level where you need technical help are more in line with a “just freshly reinstall Windows yet another time”-scenario

But a huge part is conditioning because people are forced to use Windows early and get used to it.

I have made the exact same “oh, this just works and is quite intuitive and convenient”-experience with Linux installs… for people lacking that prior forced contact with Windows (say older relatives with their first PC for example…).

The wiki is actually good for beginners, too. As you are often forced to reallylly read through subpages and cross-referenced topics until you somewhat understand why you are doing something instead of just how. Doesn’t make it easy ofc but a beginner can totally handle the wiki, it just takes more time.

Depends… mostly on party affiliation and bank account.

Sadly he is indeed “special”…

But I thought we were trying to not let that shitshow evolve into a full scale war.

Cute that were under the assumption people understood how tariffs worked.

She’s wrong and right at the same time…

not a right-wing extremist ❌

mainstream American ✅

If you need to order Amazon three times to hold a proper vote on unionizing the actual word is not “ordering” but “asking nicely”…

Not that I […] want to minimize the experience.

But isn’t that something that happens at pretty much all companies

Pick one…

Sure… let’s keep hallucinating how a Trump win is some isolated result and how other countries will cope with it.

They won’t. They will follow the same route.

The exact same propaganda that fried US citizen’s brains is working everywhere and it’s completely irrelevant if the current German government is united for another year or disbands in 5 minutes. The next election will see the same kind of right-wing lying populist morons, just in a slightly different flavor, win in Germany (it’s no coincidence they spend the last years in communication with MAGA idiots for pointers how to campaign).

Yeah… encouraging people to vote side by side with the morons pretending the moon landing didn’t happen.

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It’s been years since I took a look at this but I vaguely remember a handy kioskrc config file under xfce4…

found it…

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597

That sounds like the non-techies would be able to fix it themselves on Windows without you being around, which in my experince isn’t the case.

It might be different for you with a lot of tech-affine people in your family. But for those of us being forced to be the tech support anyway, it can really make a difference if you have to fix a Linux issue once in a while or have to reinstall Windows for the 5th time this year…