I have never been really fond of Lenovo notebooks, even if they are used by many notable Linux hackers. Now I have an actual yet feeble reason to avoid them, preferring Linux-friendly vendors (such as Laptopwithlinux.com, tuxedocomputers.com, slimbook.com, even dell.com or system76.com in the USA) since it happens that in my country Lenovo does not…
Category: Yet another reason to avoid
Yet another reason to avoid, Yet another reason to avoid Microsoft
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Bing“real name” is “Microsoft Bing” as it is owned by Microsoft, so reading that Neocities Is Blocked by Bing makes me desire to avoid Bing, especially because Bing gave no reason for this blockage. It is not a real censorship but since most people tend to reach any website throught a search engine it essentially…
Ethics, Privacy, Yet another reason to avoid
Perché i siti pubblici promuovono gratuitamente le Big Tech?
Perché i siti pubblici promuovono gratuitamente le Big Tech? Si domandano su opensalerno.it. Infatti ogni icona di Facebook, Instagram o X sui siti istituzionali è pubblicità gratuita per giganti privati che rafforzano i loro monopoli tracciando i cittadini e costringendoli all’uso di piattaforme proprietarie. Esistono molte alternative davvero libere: A mio modo di vedere le…
Yet another reason to avoid Microsoft
Windows activation is now online-only…
If you needed yet another reason to leave Windows, Slashdot tells us that Microsoft has “quietluy” discontinued the offline activation of Windows. Neowin reports that: Offline Windows activation has been possible to do using the phone. However, it looks like Microsoft has quietly killed off that method as users online have found that they are…
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Windows Power Users Frustrated as Microsoft Forces Automatic App Updates or yet another reason not to use Windows and other proprietary programs
Catholicism, Ethics, Yet another reason to avoid, Yet another reason to avoid Google
La scure dei GAFAM sulla messa in latino?
Chi bazzica il mondo del software libero è conscio che i giganti della rete – i cosidetti GAFAM , ossia Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft – siano entità di cui diffidare, che “Il potere corrompe, il potere assoluto corrompe assolutamente”. L’altroieri Google ha cancellato blog.messainlatino.it per presunti “crimini d’odio”, senza però specificare quali ai proprietari…
Yet another reason to avoid, Yet another reason to avoid Google
Yet Another Reason to avoid Google
For my series “yet another reason to avoid x”… this time is Google’s turn Nextcloud has accused Google of sabotaging its Android Files app by revoking the “All files access” permission, which the company says cripples functionality for its 824,000 users and forces reliance on limited alternatives like SAF and MediaStore. I do use NextCloud…