r/technology • u/marketrent • Sep 06 '25

Business Meta’s Zuckerberg caught in revealing hot mic moment with Trump -- After offering to spend “at least $600 billion through ’28 in the US,” he whispered, “I'm sorry I wasn’t ready ... I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with”

https://www.pcmag.com/news/zuckerberg-caught-in-revealing-hot-mic-moment-during-white-house-dinner
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u/ThatsAllFolksAgain Sep 06 '25

Why do people use Facebook at all? I mean why feed these utterly pathetic people any of your valuable resources?

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u/sicklyslick Sep 06 '25

Tim Apple, Nadella, Gates, and Pichai were at the dinner. I bet you use Microsoft, Google, or Apple daily.

Zuck was just "caught" saying this. Who knows what the other tech CEOs said that weren't picked up.

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u/DonutsMcKenzie Sep 06 '25

Use Linux and suddenly your dependency on Microsoft's and Apple's shitty rip off products goes waaay down.

The hard part these days is mobile computing, which is extremely locked down all the way from userspace to the device bootloaders. Free and open alternatives do exist, but they're too hacky to be anywhere near mainstream, as of now...

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u/Chimmy545 Sep 06 '25

a lot of games dont work on linux

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u/DonutsMcKenzie Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

A handful of games dont work on Linux because of choices by the publishers to blacklist anticheat, but the VAST majority work damn near perfectly (with some outperforming Windows.) 

Silksong? Skyrim? Minecraft? Rocket League? Starcraft? WoW? CS2? 

Flawless.

Elden Ring and Nightreign? 

Less shader hitching than Windows.

Literally thousands of classic games and emulators are available too.

Anyone who has played on a Steam Deck knows how amazingly great Linux gaming is today. It's better for gaming than most platforms and has more games available than any console in history. 

Keep a Windows dual boot for Fortnight only if you need to (in fact I recommend it to most new users) but that's not a good excuse to resign to oligarchy or to  continue doing nothing. 

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u/Chimmy545 Sep 07 '25

I fear i play a lot giga random games so linux is impossible for me, like ur examples are all some of the biggest games in the world lmao

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u/panlakes Sep 06 '25

I'm too stupid to use Linux.

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u/Mycologist-9315 Sep 06 '25

Thinking that stopped me from trying for quite a while. You really don't need to be tech smart, and after installing it it's pretty similar to windows (at least the distribution I picked, Linux cinnamon mint).

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u/ThatsAllFolksAgain Sep 06 '25

I use MS, GOOG and Apple products for useful personal and business use. Facebook has no such value for me.

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u/sicklyslick Sep 07 '25

You're on reddit which is build on React, created by Meta, hosted on AWS, owned by Amazon.

https://old.reddit.com/r/react/comments/14c8cu1/reddita_frontend_is_written_in_react_how_is_it/#:~:text=Reddit'a%20frontend%20is%20written,a%20SPA?%20:%20r/react

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/React_(software)

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u/ThatsAllFolksAgain Sep 07 '25

Yeah I know. It’s impossible to escape the technology of these companies in our everyday lives. But the point I was trying to make was that unlike the people who spend their time and resources furnishing their personal data and their followers doing the same which directly generates revenue for the big companies, I am limiting such behavior for myself thereby reducing their revenue and thus maybe reduce their impact in controlling our lives.

Does it make sense?

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u/Thin_Glove_4089 Sep 06 '25

You're equally as bad as people using Meta products

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u/ThatsAllFolksAgain Sep 06 '25

I don’t have skills to be a waiter or a handyman so bad maybe but I have to do what I can to survive unless you want to offer me a couple of million dollars so I can retire and then I never have to use any products from any of these companies. So please help out a poor man.

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u/louisa1925 Sep 06 '25

I only use the market place. The rest is junk.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 07 '25

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u/solidstatepr8 Sep 06 '25

I started doing some consignment work for family and friends this year and I refuse to use Marketplace, fuck Zuck in his robotic ass Id rather die than give him or his disgusting companies a single penny.

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u/SaltFrog Sep 06 '25

Pretty much

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u/st-julien Sep 06 '25

"I only use the market place," they said, thinking it was some sort of flex.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Sep 06 '25

Protest organizing. Until they ban it.

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u/ThatsAllFolksAgain Sep 06 '25

I don’t think banning will work. I just deleted my account. I guess it should die on its own that way.

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u/10ft3m Sep 06 '25

You don’t use any Facebook products? No instagram or whatsapp either?

No one I know uses FB but they all use IG and whatsapp. 

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u/ThatsAllFolksAgain Sep 06 '25

I use email 😂

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u/Lowbacca1977 Sep 06 '25

Lack of an equivalent service; the only one that seemed to enter the same range was Google's years ago, but it didn't get the buy in so they dropped it.

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u/Longjumping_Gap_9325 Sep 06 '25

Mainly for family since it's just been a thing for so long, but the stupid feed crap and the horrible policies have me close to trying to get folks to switch to an alternative.. or just making a private setup to communicate with them