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

• 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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      • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I can’t make or fix a car but I choose the 3rd parties to fix my property how I want it, or if it gets fixed at all. Being able to crash my car or being able to “resell a license” in the EU is not enough.

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