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title: Monopoly Sucks
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published: 2019-09-15
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`<apologies to people who like monopoly, no offense to ny'all>`
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> but its an even shittier lifestyle
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this rant is bought to you by my good friend [lumi](https://niu.moe/@lumi) who bought this to my attention, and ive been thinking about it all day.
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short rant but it needs to be said.
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## micro$oft winblows
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it feels good that saying that phrase is old enough now to be retro, but it feels bad that we still need to say it.
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microsoft is a shitty company, and windows basically has a literal monopoly on the market.
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you might go on about apple, but really they're just as bad, and a completely different problem all together but today we're focussing our rage towards microsoft.
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if you're on this website you're either:
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* someone who hates microsoft
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* someone who knows me irl
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and therefore i probably dont need to go into great detail about why they suck, but heres a brief list:
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* they actively prohibit peoples use of hardware that theyve paid for.
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* they actively spread irrational fear about non-microsoft products to trick people into using them
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* they actively capture massive amounts of user data, something that is ***literal spyware*** for their own benefits and profits, and give you a shittier, harder to use system if you dare opt out.
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* they use exploitative marketing and misinformation to make people think they need more expensive machines than they do
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* on top of that they just make really shitty and bloated software.
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## who cares just dont use it
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thank you, i dont.
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but this is the topic of todays rant, even though i dont use it, i still, in some sense, have to support them, and i really hate that.
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this rage should really be aimed at laptop manufacterers too, because for some reason its actually, what we in the business like to call:
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> really ***really*** fuarking hard to buy laptops that dont have windows on them.
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now, this is a mild inconvenience, but its a moral issue as well, because its undermining one of the core tennants of capitalism\*
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by which of course, i mean magical capitalism that works like people say it should, and not the garbage we have today.
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the one thing you hear all the time, that is actually somewhat decent advice for living in a corporate world
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> if you dont like something, vote with your wallet!
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and you know what, i would.
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...if it was possible to buy laptops that didnt come with a mandatory pat on the back for microsoft.
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and sure, i could find somewhere to buy a laptop that doesnt have a windows preinstalled, but its difficult, its hard, and more importantly.
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it relies on me having the know-how on how to do that.
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and sure, i do, but how many other people who are just learning about this sort of thing do?
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how many people *dont* know about this sort of thing because all theyve ever known is that if you dont buy a mac, it has windows on it.
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its disgusting, its unethical, its basically a monopoly, and im tired of paying the winblows tax just because microsoft feel the need to shove their fat mouth into everything they can get a hold of.
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## fin
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no fancy outro today, fuark microsoft, and fuark the tech sector for apparently not caring about literal monopolies we have everywhere. there are other monopolies in the tech sector but thats a rant for another time.
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today, since i cant vote with my wallet, im voting with my mouth.
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`:wq`
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