Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@marcoarment/116330768332281834

"• We use computers to enhance our minds, lives, and abilities—not to be controlled, restricted, tricked, placated, angered, or surveilled.

• Our computers work for us, with the utmost respect for our time, attention, money, data, and privacy.

• We are customers and owners—not resources to be harvested, annoyed, or badgered into ever more services and upsells."

I hope Ternus reads this. But more, I hope he *gets* it.

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Chris Silverman 🌻

I just keep reading this. Those bullet points feel like a sort of bill of rights for computer users.

And they crystallize, like little else I've read recently, how absolutely bad things have gotten.

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Michael Labowicz 6h ago

@csilverman I hate to be that guy and I get that there are reasons why people can't or don't want to switch, but all of these still apply as a Linux user. This is why I choose to use the platform for my personal use (work is another story - I use a Mac there)