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If you want to make Microsoft's CEO cry then you install Linux and convince all of your friends to do the same.
Using their OS, feeding them telemetry, being opted into their cloud storage but swapping some letters in your browser content is about as useless as mopping a sewer pipe.
They're also suggesting a Chrome extension, as if Chrome doesn't also feed a fascist beast's slop machine.
I can't fault them, their heart is in the right place even if they don't actually know what to do.
Give 'em tips as you can and wait a few years, we were all idiots at one point
"Wnat to make a billion dollar company cry? use an even worse billion dollar companies attempt to stranglehold control of the internet!"
What an idiotic article, from the headline down.
Locally replacing some letters with some other letters is going to make Microsoft's CEO cry? Really?
Also, I'll not be using Chrome, lol.
You can do this in uBlock Origin without having to install another add-on by adding the following to My filters and enabling Allow custom filters requiring trust
*##+js(rpnt, #Text, "Microsoft", "Microslop")
*##+js(rpnt, #Text, "microsoft", "microslop")
*##+js(rpnt, #Text, "MICROSOFT", "MICROSLOP")
This will probably break some things but I'm not sure I care enough to figure out what. Enjoy.
Ublock really seems to be much more powerful than we think. I feel like it alone could replace almost every extension we have. Wish there were some friendly guides for it
Does it also have a regex replace option? I'd vastly prefer that
Probably, but that was more time than I was willing to invest in microslop.
Microslop should now start referring to themselves as "Micro$oft" to bypass this extension.
Ew, Chrome.
The only Chrome I'm touching is userChrome.css
Edge users: "haha yes, ew, chrome"
CADs... we need professional, reliable CADs working on linux. Photoediting is a lost cause. (Imo, of course)
I just grew a pair of balls and installed arch exclusively for gaming. As things are now, temperature monitoring looks easier than I expected and I just tried 7 games, all working like a charm.
How brave, using Google Chrome to protest Microsoft... with an extension that only changes things locally. I promise that Microsoft doesn't care one iota about you renaming things to Microslop with an extension. This is like proudly calling yourself a protester because you hung a sign up in your room where nobody else can see it. I guess it could annoy them a tiny bit if they see it become really popular I guess?
In other news, it's really funny seeing an AI summary at the top of this article.
If you really want to freak Microsoft out, switch to Linux. Nothing terrifies them more than the moment you decide to leave.
This weekend. I’ve asked my significant other to check through and backup any files she may need but we’re switching off Microslops ecosystem this coming week. Got it down to Ubuntu or Mint for an ease of use while not jumping in the hole too deep. But we are in agreement at least to turn away.
Avoid Ubuntu - it's made by the Microsoft of the Linux world. If you want an easy transition from Windows specifically, then you really ought to run KDE Plasma as your desktop environment, as that is by far the most similar to Windows in terms of look, layout and workflow, and it is very flexible in what can be changed and adjusted. GNOME is the other big one, but it feels more Mac-like or tablet-like.
It's preferable to pick one of those two, as they support the modern Wayland protocol, whereas other desktop environments still only support X11 or only partially support Wayland - I don't want to infodump on you right now, but suffice to say that Wayland is more secure, and is widely regarded as the future of Linux, while the old X11 has security issues, and is only in maintenance mode now.
Mint, for whatever reason, and unlike almost every other distro, doesn't come with KDE Plasma as an option. I would recommend Fedora - it's very solid and well developed, an all purposes workhorse that can do anything you need it to, and it's a first class citizen anywhere, since it is one of the most commonly used distros by far. My runner-up would be OpenSUSE. If you're dead set on something Ubuntu-based, then I would take a look at Tuxedo OS, or perhaps just going back to the roots, and install Debian.
The only issue with Fedora, and it isn't a big one, is that the maintainers are adament about only including OSS. This isn't much of an issue except that it doesn't come with some video codecs IIRC. This meant that some videos online wouldn't play until you add the codec. This isn't hard, but it is a small frustration point for casual users.
I'm definitely not knowledgeable enough to contrast and compare linux distros but I'll chime in with my experience for two years now on Pop!_OS.
So far, I'm super happy! Was simple to install and setup. Aside from Photoshop, there's nothing I miss, and when in a pinch I've got photopea ready to go. I've got steam on there for gaming with little to no issues. My ds4 Bluetooth works out of the box, better than it did on windows. The options for how to install apps are great (love the pop shop 'app store').
I do a lot of go development using vscode (happy to try an alternative but the go ecosystem and plugin support is fantastic for vscode) and it's smooth sailing.
My biggest hiccups were trying to use experimental nvidia drivers but rolling back to stable releases wasn't too painful.
Linux Mint is a fantastic place to start (I would say the best place, personally). It's especially good if you use an Nvidia card, as it makes the driver install trivial with the built-in driver installer tool.
What if I do have an Nvidia card? I've been to and fro on switching for such a long time. I have so much random shit on my PC that it's making the overhead to leave daunting.
Then I would suggest the standard Linux Mint Cinnamon, which as I said makes it extremely easy to install the Nvidia driver.
If you really want to freak Microsoft out show up at their executive's houses.
When I was your age, we called them Micro$oft. Too bad there were no extensions in Netscape Navigator.
I dunno why the dollar sign version lost favor with anyone. It’s perpetually true, easy to type, and communicates far more succinctly than any screed about M$’s greed and enshittification.
Micro$lop, why not both
It was (and is) spot on but Microsoft won the war for minds and lots of people in the Linux community started using Microsoft products like vscode and calling them good guys because they were running Linux datacenters and making kernel contributions. Microsoft employed some really good people working on some cool things. You were called out for being immature and holding outdated grudges if you used slang terms and you couldn't participate in conversations and be taken seriously.
Meanwhile Microsoft was still being Microsoft. They bought the defacto town square - github - in an attempt to control the platform. Then they mined the content to train LLMs. Now the LLMs bombard open source projects with crap. Even as Windows is dying they are trying to drag us down as well.
They are a big company and big companies sometimes do good things. No hate on their engineers. But Microsoft have always been the enemy and they will always be the enemy. It is their nature.
Spot on, no notes
Probably lost favor due to keyboard types, lots of folks type exclusively on digital phone keyboards where the $ is a bit more mechanically awkward than shift+4. But hey we still have Michaelsoft Binbows.
Microsoft's CEO won't give even the slightest fuck about you doing this.
Literally this morning a client had a production problem. I asked for documentation and they sent a SharePoint link. I replied that we do not have or want access to their Microsoft ecosystem. They wasted over an hour trying to figure out how to email me a set of logs because their MS Org configurations do not allow sharing of files outside of company hardware. Good shit.
I hear signal is a great place to share information with many people.
some of them may even be the ones you want to share it with.
Yeah, let's make fun of one slop peddling giant by adding some spyware to another slop peddling giant's product (that's also spyware)
Take that, Nutella!
I don't get why these lazy one-off text replacement extensions keep making "tech news". You can do this shit easily with a short userscript, and there are plenty of extensions for practically every browser that let you set your own text replacement settings. No need for individual extensions for each.
What meme archive of antiquity did you dig that up from?
not OP, but I'm almost certain that's xkcd (and it's an antique for sure)
"Make evil CEO cry by fellating different, alternative, evil CEO"
No ty
lol microslop was the one that removed all the features. I just removed the spyware (windows itself)