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I prefer a dumb TV.
So you prefer Japanese spyware instead.
My concern is the likelyhood that companies using MS products will cut corners by using deprecated/unsupported OSs for years after the last security patch, which will lead to security breaches for many consumers.
That likelihood is high, real and current.
If they're smart they won't do that as they know people are buying their products specifically for that reason.
If they're smart...
I.e. M$ doesn't want people circumventing paywalls, let them use the (magnificent) wayback machine if they want to.
Tanna is relatively fortunate – his employer gives him four hours a month to work on the project.
4 full hours?! Wooooow, what a benevolent employer! ~/s~
having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask
Email is the usual analogy.
trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating.
Your average person will just land on mastodon.social without bothering to read the TOS... i mean rules, you know that.
And you missed a real key argument: network effect. If average person's friends are on platform XYZ, that's where average person will be (although this is stronger with messengers).
You're probably thinking of PairDrop (which also allows extranet).