Travel to Beijing, open up Google search, and see if it gives you any historically accurate results about what happened there.

I’m serious, it sounds like you could use a lesson in freedom and the world outside your country.

Did the US government tell Google to censor Tiannamen Square, or are they a global company that has to observe more than the whims of a single country?

I hope other countries start renaming the US soon.

Why didn’t they change it only in the US and not elsewhere? Could you imagine the uproar if Google censored Tiananmen Square world wide because of the Chinese government?

PS: Yes it was modified for everyone outside the US too. I am not American but your “president” is now allowed to change what name I have to call something?

I’ve had problems with just regular package upgrades. Also to be fair, Windows does have service packs which can add significant new OS features without updating to a whole other version, so it’s not like Windows XP/Vista/7/10/11 stay the exact same from when you install them.

Plus the irony is that a lot of the features in this meme have to do with Wayland, and I can find many LTS releases that even use it? It’ll take years before these features are included in releases that aren’t bleeding edge and will still require a whole OS reinstall to actually get them.

Must have had bad luck! I mean I’ve fixed many a Windows computer in my time so I know it’s not perfect, but I guess my expertise helps me avoid a lot of the pitfalls of Windows by not loading up all kinds of dodgy software.

Linux though will break when you do everything right, and that’s what gets me every time.

I mean I’ve worked IT for decades so I know how to do this stuff, but I also don’t want to do it after 8 hours of being paid to do it at work and all I want is to pull up a game to play on my free time without any more effort.

Linux is only free if your time is free. I also would never recommend Linux to anyone who isn’t an IT professional. 🤷

I’ve had Windows installations that chugged along for 10 years with only regular software updates. It does get slow and bloated over time, but it keeps working without any maintenance or fixing.

Meanwhile I can’t find a Linux distribution that doesn’t self-destruct in about 6 months of regular desktop use. Every time some software update corrupts GRUB, breaks X/Wayland, or something else that unexpectedly makes my computer unusable and requires me to spend hours fixing it or in some cases giving up and installing a different distro.

Let me know when a desktop Linux distro is as reliable as my 10 year old Windows install please.

It’s crazy that people will destroy their own lives just to tell trans people which bathroom to use. 🙄

The solution is simple, but not easy: Stop using their products. A mass exodus of their users will quickly take away their power.

Stop using all Alphabet/Google products. Other search engines, email providers, streaming video, and even cell phone operating systems exist. Switch to them.

Stop using all Meta products. Other social networks and messaging applications exist. Switch to them.

Stop buying from Amazon and watching their streams. Other online stores and streaming media exists. Switch to them.

Keep going for every company who has a billionaire CEO, owner, or shareholder. Their fortunes will evaporate quickly.

If you couldn’t tell this isn’t a political war, it’s a class war. We need to stand up to these mega corporations because their billionaire CEOs are the root cause of this issue and we’re all happily donating money to them by letting them use our data for free.

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon… They are all actively involved in every other “important thing” you could mention.