SorteKaninMicrosoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash
QuandaleDingleWell, there’s really no point in following their Discord if you don’t like Windows as it is.
SternWoulda thought MS would have a slack or teams or whatever dogwater multi user chat product no one uses that they have idk
It’s like having a Twitter or YouTube channel or whatever; apparently a Discord server for corporate PR is pretty much mandatory.
Except teams works for shit, so better to use discord
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INeedMana
Left as CenterMicroslop does apparently, but under a fake name.
All the teams devs hang out there
The Slop doesn’t like Teams, lol. Meanwhile, I have to use it for work.
LeonTeams is such a stupid piece of software. At first I was like “well this will make organising things really easy!” but I quickly learned that everyone has their own ideas about organisation and the moment a new person pops in there’s a new way of doing it. The end result is a chat application with a fuckton of random files flying around, various applications just smashed into it, and it tries to do so many things that it barely works for the core features it should be used for.
Turns out, the best way to organise files was to have a common system and just use the regular FS all along. Who would’ve thought it?
You left out the fun part where Teams itself gets an update that moves or deprecrates a feature you are accustomed to.
It is so cumbersome to use. Which chat did I see that vital piece of information in? Why does a feature that used to open in Teams itself now open a browser window to display it?
Mine has a permanent warning triangle telling me something is wrong with one of my accounts but it doesn’t tell me what or how to fix it. Neither account seems to be problematic either.
It also spontaneously updates and withholds notifications from me. I don’t really sit with my nose in Teams all the time, so every so often I’ll remember to check it and notice a colleague has sent me a question or something 4 hours ago. 💀
Honestly just give me an IRC or something instead.
…Who would be in the Microsoft Discord? Why?
Wasn’t there some old internet saying that once megacorps join a social media platform en masse, it’s uncool? What happened to that?
franzbroetchenDiehard Windows fanboys exist and believe in the myth that their voice in a corporate Discord server matters
Oneplus did listen to the community during the Oneplus 1 and 2 era, but everything started going to shit slowly. Now they are just another soulless flagship churning factory
EpicFailGuyThis, I was there when it happened.
They actually hired a few from our ranks (rom community) to work on Oxygen OS.
I myself received an Oppo find 7a for testing (Chinese version of what would become the one plus 1)
They got internally removed by parent company. Now Oneplus is just rebrand of Oppo
rozodrubelieve it or not there are microsoft fanboys so it doesn’t surprise me there is a discord. You can also find A LOT of them on bluesky of all places where they seem to be worse than the “just use linux” people.
SkullgridYou can also find A LOT of them on bluesky of all places where they seem to be worse than the “just use linux” people.
Jesus fucking christ, proselyting for the majority OS for a corporation worth billions?
And it’s a ~3 Trillion dollar company, so…
Hundreds of billions is a more accurate figure. You could’ve also said they’re worth multiple dollars and had been correct.
I use to go to lan parties and the amount of fellating of microsoft shit was off the scale. I once heard someone getting shittalked for having an apple monitor hooked to their windows pc. But if you ask them for some tech help with a problem, they give you the most jank solution. Or they tell you to install some weird ass driver off a sketchy website. No wonder they have to use antivirues.
For a long time, I was platform agnostic and eventually I gave up on antivirus hooping and I realized that you don’t actually download weird shit and run shit without vetting it. Never got a virus on my windows partition.
quick_snailYes. Discord has been uncool for a while.
Yes. Discord has been uncool for a while.
Is this true anymore?
I feel like corporate astroturfing has gotten so intense that users are either oblivious, or get acclimated to it and keep using the platform. Because, you know, where else are you gonna go?
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CerebralHawksSo, they’re going to stop pushing AI slop…?
No?
Then they’re not serving you. They’re serving someone else and you’re either the product, or the byproduct. Get a Mac, or switch to Linux, if you’re still running Windows in 2026.
I mean obviously, “buy a whole new machine” is kind of a tall order, but some of us were willing to vote with our wallets. Linux is free and requires virtually no commitment. It’s pretty trivial to go back to Windows if you really want to do — even from within Linux.
I wouldn’t go for a Mac, firstly because I don’t like Macs (never have) but also more importantly, if tradition has shown us anything by now is that Apple likes to wait things out and give it their own spin afterwards.
Oh no, I mean you’re right about Apple sitting and waiting (like they did with the iPod 25 years ago, like they’re doing with foldable phones now), but Apple has always pushed AI. They just push AI like they push gaming, just enough to say they do to make the investors happy. Siri has always sucked for what people want it to do. Apple Intelligence is a straight-up non-starter. Now the investors are pushing them to release some AI, so they’re partnering with Google (Gemini). And that was supposed to be in 26.4 but now it’s being pushed back yet again. Essentially, Cupertino is digging its heels with AI. They need to be dragged kicking and screaming by the investors.
Totally fair if you don’t like the platform. There have been some straight up trash Macs Apple has never apologised for, it’s always “meh, just buy the next one.” I struck gold buying in the M2 generation (M2 Pro desktop, M2 base laptop). Everything’s trying to support the M1, and I have like a 12% advantage over that, and the power in the M4 and M5 generations is attracting both customers and developers. And all the M-chips are super power efficient, which is great for the laptops. I don’t think there are any bad M-series Macs, except the ones with 8GB RAM. And even then…
But yeah, if you already have working hardware, Linux is the better option. Even if you don’t, there are cheap PCs that can be had for less than the base Mac mini ($500). And then you can go back to Windows if you aren’t ready to jump into the deep end of saying “fuck Microslop.” Same is true of Intel Macs, but the M-series, I don’t think they can run Windows. They could run Windows for ARM if drivers are available but I’m not sure what the status of that is, or if there would even be a benefit (namely running legacy Windows code, for x86 and x86-64 — if you can’t do that, a Linux distro with Proton would be a better option to dual boot into or to replace macOS with if you wanna go that way, but again, you can get to Linux for less).
That’s what’s interesting about Microsoft, their customer is usually not the user. It’s the hardware vendor. It is the company you work for. They get money for enabling those people to get what they want with only the obligatory effort to make the users accept it. Frequently those customers want to act against the interests of the users, and Microsoft is there for it.
True; we use Windows at work, and I honestly wouldn’t recommend they switch to Linux (or Macs, for that matter, though that would be entertaining). I also wouldn’t want to be IT if they do switch operating systems. I do feel that both are better, but I’ve also been using Windows since 3.1 (early 90s), Linux off and on since the late 90s, and macOS since Ventura (2020? 2021? Something like that). So I’m good with whatever. I’ve talked to people (mostly, Boomers) who tell me they’re sick of Microslop’s shit, and I’ve told them “just get a Mac,” but using a whole other computer is scary. I bring up Linux and how it being hard to use is mostly an online myth and it’ll run on their computer alongside Windows while they learn… they’re not willing to jump. Imagine if they were forced to at work. It would not be okay for weeks, if not months.
Telling people who are sick of mircoslop to get a mac is like telling people who are sick of getting punched in the face to get punched in the throat instead.
DiplomjodlerDamn! That’ll show those pesky proles!
Microslop, now with added Barbers Streisand effect.
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MS Coslopit
To celebrate i had to play Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce