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Yes. Exactly. Although there isn’t much left worth stealing from Microsoft.

(This was a low-key “Microsoft bad, Linux supreme”, comment.)

(And now it’s no longer low-key.)

(I’m using a touch-screen keyboard for writing this. And yet I can’t open my doors using the keyboard. Ever wondered why that is?)

(Correct, because I forgot my keys at home and didn’t put them on my keyboard.)

(Now it’s just a –board.)

(Oral diarrhea over. Go get some guhd Linux!)

That depends on where you live.

Yes, I know. That’s why I said:

However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country.

No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.

However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country. Knowlegde should be a free and shared common good.

Capitalism wherever it is found. Not just the USA.

Ecosia did something similar.

“If you don’t have anything to hide, you won’t mind us looking, would you?”

Wasn’t the user count declining?

I think it’s more a twitterix is dying thing, as user count was declining last time I checked.

Which ones?

Forex traders are shocked.

That’s why you need to think about the company you’re going to invest in.

Your critique is accurate for too many companies, yes. But by far not for all.

That you deliver reasons for why you claim I’m wrong.

It’s freemium, not free. As I said before, OpenAI limits the number of prompts you can make per hour in case you don’t want to pay. Also, using the API or ChatGPT 4 costs money. Users of search engines are usually not asked for money.

Well… as I said. OpenAI asks for money, search engines usually don’t. Ergo, OpenAI is not free. (But freemium.)

Despite claiming that’s not the case, you lack the necessary proof and don’t seem to care about countering my argument with something of substance.

Such a discussion will not be fruitful if you are unwilling to deliver.

The ones where you just claim that despite it being not true or which ones do you mean?

Yes, and consider what insane amount of pressure was necessary to achive this. Over 200.000 negative reviews for HD2. That makes it very unlikely to happen again. It shows how little gamers can achieve and how little their concerns are heard if they are not accumulating to a critical mass.

*they’re buying studios who make legendary games and kill them.

They are a parasite to the gaming landscape.

I’ve never been asked to pay for using one of the aforementioned search engines. I have been asked to pay for OpenAI products.

So I don’t see how you come to that conclusion.

It’s “freemium”, not free. There is a difference. You can’t use ChatGPT 4 without paying as well as the API. Also, you are limited in the number of prompts you can make per hour before you are put on pause and asked to pay.

Search engines like Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, etc. don’t ask you for money. Regardless how intensively you use it. (They might come with other drawbacks though like Google with privacy, environment, ethical principles, …)