Bizarroland

Yeah they're following the IBM playbook of being the operating system that businesses run.

I just wish they would take a hint and release a paid version that has none of the ads, none of the bloatware, and none of the bullshit.

I feel confident that I could pay them just as much money as they would ever earn from mining my data and annoying the ever-loving fuck out of me and I would be happier about that.

But since they won't do that fortunately there's things like Atlas OS.

"Come take care of big pappa penguin, baby bird"

Yep. It's my goal to be as unprofitable a citizen for our corporate overlords as possible.

I want them to lose money by doing business with me.

I want them to go bankrupt so that their future replacements can learn from their mistakes and not repeat them.

If they choose to be user hostile, I'll match their energy and multiply it. Fuck em.

Your powers of deduction are sherlockian and uncanny

I only have four fingers and a thumb but I have three penises and two vaginas and six titties.

Yeah realistically you're talking about a team of 10 to 30 people whose entire job is to give the final thumbs up or thumbs down to an ad.

You're talking one to three million dollars a year, maybe throw an extra million on for the VP.

Chump change, they just don't want to pay it cuz nobody's forcing them to

My guess is that if you're going to start a MSP you can do that with Foss and probably have a lot of success as long as you've got the sales chops to get the contracts.

Then you can funnel some of your customers money to foss well also increasing awareness and adoption of the better free and open source software programs

Most of the small to mid size companies that I have worked for would choose a larger more established system that costs more even if it offers less over a self-hosted one that they had to pay some sort of fee for.

Is like this weird idea in the business world that if you're using Foss systems that it must be completely free, and that the reason why you are using it is because you are broke or cheap.

Everything turns to shit whenever a metric becomes a goal, and multiply that by Infinity whenever that goal involves making money.

Ads are the worst thing about the internet. There's not an option to escape them under any circumstances and when you use things like adblock people crawl out of the woodwork to tell you how you're stealing money from people.

I'm sorry, I'm paying for the service of accessing the internet. How I do so should be my decision and not somebody else's under any circumstances, so long as I am not breaking the law.

I work in it and one of our employees brought a laptop to us that had been completely and thoroughly dismantled with a screwdriver.

She told us that she wanted to remove the hard drive but she couldn't find it.

It had a flash hard drive that had been detached from the board was sitting next to the Wi-Fi card.

Me and the other it guy just kind of like looked at each other for a minute and then got her a new laptop.

To be fair she was due for an upgrade anyway, but I've never had anyone dismantle their soon to be recycled devices.

I bought a Samsung mono laser and printed approximately 400 pages on it before the fusor broke and would cost more than the entire printer did to replace.

I was past the 6-month warranty as well so I chucked it and bought a $10 Brother MFC-7860dw monoprinter from the thrift store that printed in the store.

It turned out that it would jam like the grateful Dead if it printed more than one page though.

Apparently that is a common issue with them and inside of the printer there is a small cork pad that gets twisted down and hits every time it picks up a new sheet of paper and the cork had gotten sticky somehow.

The fix for this incredibly complicated and delicate procedure is to open one side of the printer and take a piece of Scotch tape and cover over that tiny cork pad.

I did that 7 years ago and it still prints perfectly today.