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@stux@mstdn.social 4 hr. ago

Btw, there is no #Microsoft outage when you don’t use Microsoft 🤷

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@TheMNWolf@furry.engineer 41 min. ago

@stux The only way I ever know that Microsoft fucked up yet again is by the memes that show up.

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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 1 hr. ago

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@linuxgal@techhub.social 2 hr. ago

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@pewnack@aus.social 3 hr. ago

Smart arse

@daarin@mastodon.social 3 hr. ago

@stux There was something up with Microsoft?

Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud

@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud@masto.ai 3 hr. ago

@stux I noticed nothing.

@ello911@mastodon.social 3 hr. ago

@stux what should people use? Process of elimination says no Google, no Microsoft, no Apple, not Raspberry Pi, and Firefox is using 2000s nostalgia pathos marketing which feels pretty underhanded. Dolphin Browser? Linux? Are we gonna stop using computers in general??

@kfarinsky@masto.ai 3 hr. ago

@stux
It's both down and not down until you check it. Quantum email. 😄

vitaut 🤍❤️🤍 🇺🇦

@vitaut@mastodon.social 3 hr. ago

@stux Folks at our dentist office were very impressed when I told them that we (mostly) don't use Microsoft products.

@Npars01@mstdn.social 3 hr. ago

Corollary, there is no technofascist brotherhood when people stop buying fossil fuels.

That axis alliance between American tech and the oil industry; it needs to go.

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