Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in

• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who really owns the computer you paid for :/

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  • PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You. But the People that provide the OS control it. That’s the case with Free OS too.

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    • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If someone else controls it then you don’t own it - it only does what you want if the real owners says so.

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      • PlexSheep@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’d disagree.you can still sell it’s break it, throw it out of a window, and so on. But control is outsourced. And it has to be, because developing your own system is too impractical. It’s not a bad thing that your OS is controlled by orgs, they push updates and software we don’t even know about that makes stuff work. But it’s a bad thing when that org is scummy, like M$

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