I was at a shitty job once doing some after work collaboration with colleagues. One of those shitholes where the IT department clearly hates you. So the IT drone and I were ignoring each other when someone next to me invites us to a chat on Microsoft Teams, and the IT drone immediately says "no. uninstall it."

And the person next to me says "hey, there's no problem, it's just chat software." and the IT drone reaches under their desk for a magnetron or something and says "delete it. now." and the person next to me complies, kind of grumbling. And they were wearing flair from tech companies, I noticed.

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the IT drone was like "you didn't see their flair but it was all proprietary walled garden shit. Adobe and Apple and stuff. You get to recognize them". And I was like ohok and they continue.

"You have to nip it in the bud immediately. These programs come in and it's always a nice low investment one. And you install and use it because you don't want to be the odd person out. And it becomes a regular part of your workflow and after a while someone suggests some other integrated software. And that program is cool too."

"And then THAT program incentivizes you to install more and more of the related ecosystem and they stop being cool and you realize, oh shit, I'm trapped in a walled garden now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to switch platforms, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down."

And I was like, 'oh damn.' and they said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable tools because their end goal is to lock you into terrible, awful commitments.

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