Mommy was one of the higher ups at IBM. Gates got most of it just handed to him. They are not the same.

Christ this is such a Lemmy take.

The other option is users just not using tech at all.

I've used my share of free software. Some of it worked well, but it always felt clunky, and just never as straightforward to use as a paid product.

But sure, I couldn't possibly have reached that conclusion on my own, it's obviously the marketing.

Barf. Or maybe, just maybe, we have other shit to do rather than spend hours trying to figure out how to do one thing in Gimp. It's great that YOU'RE passionate about tech. Some of us have other hobbies. Imagine that holy shit

Down to the red shirt.

That really nails it, I think. Tech is a hobby for some, a means to an end for the vast majority.

Sounds like you're cherry picking both; I've seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.

And hoodie!

You should not expect to use a tool (edit: competently) without spending time learning how to use it. Photoshop has a learning curve too, even if it's an easier one.

Buddy, if I open Photoshop it's gonna take me hours to learn how to do one thing too, what a horrible example lmao. There's like so many easy slam dunks you could've said too.

No, it's not. We have other shit to do and very limited quality time.

There's Dave Cutler in the article. They both heard boss music and it wasn't theirs.

See, Dave Cutler's level of "boss" for Unix would be Kirk McCusick or Bill Joy.

That has to be one of the most out of touch takes I've seen in a while. You're basically saying that things should be intentionally more complicated, and you expect the result to be people just power through and getting used to things being that way, instead of just stopping.

Yeah, 10% went to good causes but imagine what the society could afford if 100% went through instead of 0.

It's the US, so more weapons I presume.

Yeah, it's very obvious that some of the people responding here don't interact much with non-tech people, and they have DEFINITELY never worked IT.

Most people aren't interested in learning the more intricate things. And if you try to force them, they're not going to get more interested as they learn, because they literally are not interested in tech. They want to accomplish a task, if that takes a bunch of learning just for one thing, they'll go a different route, or pay someone else to do it for them.

But but but... my parents stories about self-made, and cheapskate, and he's rich cause apparently he's not frivolous, and wears sweatpants, and other dumbass lies they ate up...

That's the sentiment that allows these rich fucks to avoid paying taxes without big backlash. First focus on collecting, then on spending...

Do you hunt for all of your food and cook it from absolute scratch?

I bet you sometimes use a grocery store.

In my head this means gamepass on linux

I know it's fun to bash on Gates, but it's also bullshit. Dave Cutler worked on at least two major operating systems. He's way up there in the Hall of Fame.