• Klear@quokk.auEnglish
    39·
    5 months ago

    This is dumb. I’m currently sitting at a computer at work. It’s not my computer. It’s not even my workstation at all times, who sits where depends on how the shifts work out each day. “This computer” is a more general expression which encompasses “My computer”, one which is more correct in many cases and slighly less precise in the case of your computer at home.

    It makes perfect sense in a world where it’s common for people to use a computer they do not own. The former designation didn’t. Hence the change.

    And guess what? If you really care, you can rename it to whatever you want.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, this is on the level of those conspiracy theories that insist the Illuminati or whatever are constantly leaving enciphered clues about their existence in plain sight for no practical reason except so that Dave can post about it online after a long day at AutoZone.

      As an added bonus, “This PC” is more concise in terms of character count and syllables – which actually is pertinent for something that might get namedropped a million times a day.

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
    27·
    5 months ago

    I actually always thought that the mid-aughts trend of putting “My” in front of everything to make it feel personalized was really bizarre, considering that you weren’t ever the person labeling it that. Some developer or marketer you never met named it that. It always annoyed me when my icons started getting relabeled with names that a boomer grandpa might put on them, felt really pandery. Prior to the “My” trend, “My Computer” was just “Computer”.

      • ceenote@lemmy.world
        13·
        5 months ago

        I’m not a Linux user but even I think “tech illiterate Linux bro” is a silly thing to say.

        Though I will say the My Computer to This PC switch was probably more due to the “everyone has multiple devices now” dynamic than the “you will own nothing” dynamic.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      Well, they started with enshitification a few years after getting the MS Basic contract with IBM… So yeah, the switch to “This PC” was about 3 decades too late.

  • istdaslol@feddit.org
    8·
    5 months ago

    If you ever encountered an User you know Microsoft was just fed up with people calling confusing „my computer“ as their personal PC and thinking they can remote access theirs by clicking it on every device

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    Interesting how seriously people itt are taking this. Obviously it’s not very likely the change was specifically to warm you up to losing ownership of your computer, although it’s also not entirely impossible that kind of culture at Microsoft contributed to the decision subconsciously.

    It’s a meme. Seems like Peter Griffin’s presence here would indicate we’re not really making a claim about a real conspiracy…

  • Synapse@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 months ago

    Also, it’s showing a computer screen and not an actual computer, at least not clearly. Anyway, I’m in the clear, Gnome doesn’t have desktop icons.