Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes.

  I’m no microsoft fanboy, but I am shocked that they would do this.

  This is the kind of shit google does on the regular, Never heard of Microsoft doing anything like this before.

  And as I’ve said in response to instances of google doing this, I’ll say it again here. This continues to highlight the dangers of having all your eggs in one companies basket, by choosing comfort and convenience you’ve given your entire digital life over to a company that has no compunctions against metaphorically guillotining it for any reason they want.

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  • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This continues to highlight the dangers of having all your eggs in one companies basket, by choosing comfort and convenience you’ve given your entire digital life over to a company that has no compunctions against metaphorically guillotining it for any reason they want.

    I agree. Which is why I don’t use anything Microsoft. Even in software projects I go out of my way to not use a single Microsoft dependency or library.

    I self-host my own photo auto-upload with Nextcloud. I don’t use Windows. I’m forced to use MS stuff at my work but I managed to get the company-wide policy changed to allow anyone to use Linux or Mac, so I’m running Ubuntu.

    I’ve also been working up the effort to ditch stock Android and go with GrapheneOS.

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