Windows 11 is fucking horrible.

The only reason I still have a windows machine is for PC VR gaming, and even that minimal interaction is annoying. Every major update seems exclusively be MS further enshitifying their OS. It’s an hour of research and work into remove whatever new garbage they’ve added.

Yeah! Anyone that thinks “Corporate run AI is problematic, obnoxious trash” is obviously a luddite. Everyone knows that all implementations of new technology is inherently good – even when it’s used by awful people with bad intentions.

Every city in the western world already has at least one rack of servers running 24/7. The have their own domain names, they have a web presence, etc – running a mastodon instance on existing infrastructure hardly qualifies as wasteful.