Homo Homini Lupus Est
since its usually not the victim that actively tries to end up in the shitter but the perpetrator that actively attempts to exploit them.
Fair point. I stand corrected. Guess I wash a bit too harsh in judgement.
Victim-blaming to me seems inherently ignorant in itself. How does one even come up with the idea of blaming someone whos the victim of the crime?
Touché. That was indeed ignorant of me.
And that’s why I always self-hosted. In the 80s out of necessity and since the internet out of an anti-cloud-sentiment. My archive is many many terabytes of images, videos, emails, complete website-rips (before archive.org) and whatnot since the last 40 years. Triple backed up.
Either the site gets backed, or you, or they enshittify and lock you in forever.
I never paid for a single Microsoft product.
I get your point but why is ignorance to be accepted but corpo behavior isn’t? I mean sure, fuck MS for that, but who is really surprised by a US-company enshittifying their already bad crap? Can only be people who don’t really know what they’re doing there. Which is ignorance.
Your example kinda lacks in the regard that everyone needs insurance but noone needs Microsoft office. Otherwise same point (assuming there’d be a good free healthcare alternative): if you died because you’re ignorant to the things that matter in this world, and you refused to educate or inform yourself beforehand… Well?
If I leave my front door wide open, I can’t be surprised when someone comes in and robs me blind. Just because I don’t know burglaries exist.
Doesn’t change my point. Why pay for it? Either just use it for free or get libreoffice. If I pay a thing from a corpo like MS, behavior like that is totally to be expected. Why even be surprised?
Well, you’re not wrong, but who the heck buys a “perpetual” license for a Microsoft product unless it’s for a company? And especially why pay for stupid boost water office if you could have libre for free?
If it’s not stupidity then at least ignorance. Doesn’t mean Microsoft is an arse for doing that.
But isn’t that just the definition of ignorance? I just do something I know nothing about and also don’t care to inform myself beforehand?
Like me going to the garage with my car. They could tell me whatever they want and I have to believe it. That is ignorance I pay with probably spiced up bills of things I never needed.