We're going to restart your computer during active hours. Your work will be interrupted. Fuck you.
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Yeah, came home to my pc having restarted itself for updates the other day, despite having 2 VMs running at the time that were not properly shut down. Then Windows tried to push their cloud backup on me... twice, and it reset my mouse speed to the default for some reason
Then Windows tried to push their cloud backup on me... twice
This is major boundary respect by Microsoft's standards
Cloud backup just means they will use all and any data on your pc and network to train their shitty ai to do more shitty things and continue stealing our data. Yay future.
Lets say they don't use private data for training
(Continue reading when you're done laughing):
Eventually, victims eventually run out of "free" storage.
The humble corporation will do a bunch of psychologically unethical tricks to basically hypnotize users into forking over those three digits at the back of the family credit card.
Now the victim's data is effectively held ransom. Keep paying or lose it.
But they won't stop paying. They paid for a year's plan at a discount and the peaceful megacorp conveniently hit autorenew for them at checkout.
12 months roll around and oopsie, they already have the money. They could go through the refund process, but they've got shit on their plate, might as well keep it for another year.
I could keep rambling, but on Lemmy, I'm probably preaching to the choir about the first verse of genesis.
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Hmm something’s missing. Where is the ai integration?
“Your clock has been set to UTC+08:00 since this is what most people use.”
Not enough AI. Gotta use the webcam+AI to set the timezone to one that's most frequently used by people of whatever ethnicity it thinks you are.
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Oh no. We're going to get Vibe Clocks aren't we? AI is just going to spit out times and it's on you to check to make sure it's correct.
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Hi I'm Clock Copilot
Set up an alarm at 7:53 am? Statistically this when most people wake up.
No
Set a 8:00:85 timer? To make you feel better about your dead grandma?
No
*Sets an 2:30 am timer anyway
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And why the fuck is windows always "preparing" to do something!? Are you generating a record of my activities to phone home with? Just do the damn thing!
Well, downloading maybe. But it should just say fuckin downloading!
I recommend Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC, which is supported until 2032 and has never required me to update my fucking clock or calculator, never crashed my SSD, and never randomly encrypted my hard drive and lost the recovery keys! And, there’s no OneDrive, Copilot, Recall, Cortana, Clippy, or whatever else Microsoft’s cocaine addled executives have come up with this week to FUCK us.
Since thats the standard for operating systems we’re working with now, I’d say this one is pretty good!
Here’s how you can purchase your copy today!
Isn't the IoT version missing some features?
The real fix is to switch to Linux.
Also, what's wrong with Clippy?
IoT is missing all the features I hate, but they can usually be installed manually if desired.
I’m holding out till 2032 for Linux by which time I will be dead or ready to switch.
I was one of those cool 90’s kids who hated Clippy, and I am still just as immature.
Why are you waiting so long? Windows XP pushed me over the edge and I switched to Linux then. Everything was suddenly better. Computers were useful and fun again.
What are you waiting for?
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Just a moment
Progress bar at 100%
Progress text reads "complete"
Wait 2 hours
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I installed Windows 11 on my new office PC yesterday, and it took hours.
- The initial boot took forever because it decided it needed to do an update as part of the install,
- Then after install when you enter your Microsoft account details so it downloads the entire internet including OneDrive (gross),
- Then you switch to AU locale because despite saying I'm in Australia during install it's set me up as US language and currency and imperial measurements etc but Melbourne timezone (also incorrect),
- Then you uninstall and disable all the stupid Candy Crush and celebrity news (in the start menu?? why??) and LinkedIn and Xbox gaming crap and all this other stuff that just appears,
- Allocate another day to uninstall all the MS Office stuff I don't want (especially OneDrive),
- Then you can install Firefox and Thunderbird and Nextcloud and Libre Office and Irfanview and accounting software,
- And finally everything starts syncing and away we go time to be productive...
- Jokes! Critical update and it's time to reboot multiple times.
I can boot from a Ventoy USB and have a new distro installed and working on my laptop in under an hour ffs.
This has happened twice now: I'll build a new PC about the time my father will buy a tower from Dell.
Mine comes in 4 boxes from 3 vendors over the course of a few days. His arrives fully assembled with an OS installed.
I take 3 or 4 hours to put the machine together, boot into a Linux live session, let the installer run, I get up and do something else while that goes. When that's done, I boot into the OS, run a big ol apt or dnf or whatever command to install most of the software I like, that runs for awhile, that installs my backup software. I restore a file backup from my old machine, that runs for an hour or so, gotta love spinning rust external hard drives. And then I'm moved in and up and running.
My father, meanwhile, will:
- Erase the copy of Windows that Dell included on the machine and install it fresh, which might be the only way to actually remove McAfee.
- Spend an entire week, full time, installing software. Downloading setup.exes from vendor websites, running install wizards, telling Windows "Yes, put these program files in the Program Files folder" several dozen times in a row, installing some stuff to include MS Office from disc, which Windows increasingly fights him about.
- Somehow also taking a rather long time manually restoring file backups.
- Tweaking settings for DAYS.
I'll have an SSD fail. I'll go to Best Buy, buy another off the shelf, pop the thing in, and either reinstall the OS and my software, which is a rather straightforward automatic process, or simply restore my most recent file backup, which is a couple clicks, depending if it's my / or /home drive.
My father...look, some men build model train sets, some men paint, some men plant gardens, some men fish, my father backs up his computer. I have a cabinet full of HIS backup hard drives because he's playing pretend he has "offsite backups." When he suffers an SSD failure, he:
- Comes over to my house to monologue about it for 5 to 10 minutes
- Spends an afternoon on the phone with Dell. At some point he convinces them to honor the warranty he paid extra for.
- 1.5 weeks later the one service tech Dell has for this state arrives with an SSD and installs it.
- Engage the full manual reinstall business, because 1. he's got his whole system on one drive, and 2. for some reason he isn't willing to actually use the full system image backups he takes.
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My wife came to me saying her laptop wasn't working. She was on it last night. It was forcing a Windows account login. Shift-10 disabled so I couldn't bypass.
Microsoft can straight fuck itself after this. Trying to brick an 8 year old laptop with a local account. Fuck that noise. My wife is gonna have to learn Linux.
trying to reinstall Windows on a used computer I got recently sent me over the edge. holy fucking shit that was so complicated. there is just no way to install windows without a Microsoft account now, their documentation is both out of date in some locations, non-existent in others (posts removed), and seemingly up-to-date yet incorrect in other locations. I followed the instructions for installing with a Microsoft account and then unlinking it, and it was fucking hell. I had to do some back door shit (not really, but stuff that the average user doesn't stand a chance of doing) in order to get my account actually unlinked so that I could sign in with the local credentials
I will not be buying Microsoft again. just going to transition slowly as Windows 10 fades away
Download pro, during install before setting initial account: shift+f10 (may have to hold fn key if laptop). When the cmd box opens type oobe\bypassnro hit enter an PC reboots. Disconnect networking. Say I don't have internet. Now you can do local accounts.
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We replaced "Clock" with ClockPilot. It is so much better! Go ahead ask Clock Pilot what time it is!
You: Clockpilot What Time is It?
🤖 Clockpilot: “Ah, an excellent question! It’s breakfast time in 12 different countries, next week already in New Zealand, and—wait, hang on—did you know Saturn’s day is only 10.7 hours long? If you were there, you’d already be late for bed.
...Anyway. Locally speaking: it’s ... thinking ....did you adjust for Daylight Savings, quantum drift, or whether your cat stepped on your keyboard last spring?
Would you like me to set an alarm for:
Your next existential crisis, The heat-death of the universe, or Dinner?
You: Clockpilot I said WHAT TIME IS IT!
Oh, of course! It's 5.20 AM on the 35. April in the 114. Juche year in North Korea. have a productive day!
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It's just getting updated to, modern times. (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Clock needs an update? To decimal time, or what?
Or did they have to patch it because they managed to build a security hole into the original?
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I installed win11 in a vm just for fun, then ran the deblpat script. The amount of shit that removed was astonishing.
Still sucks ass but at least its not as bad as a damn emachine from 2005. Win 11 performance is so damn shit.
What absolute scares me is how even if you download Windows Enterprise IoT, which already comes extremely clean out of the box, and then run your favorite debloating script (removing even more crap)... the system still shows a noticeable delay when opening the right click menu, or the start menu, or a new Explorer window. So the most basic possible tasks, that you do constantly, for some reason are slow on a modern multi-core processor and a clean build of the OS.
How the hell did they manage to downgrade... the start menu? the right click menu? How?
I read they're using react, the JavaScript library, for the start menu. If true that strikes me as insane
They're likely using react native (Microsoft has pretty much gone all in on react for new ui things). It's not as crazy as it sounds, the majority of cross platform mobile apps use react native.
It's important to note that it's not a web browser that's rendering the ui. The way it works is that react native provides a way for js logic to define the ui declaratively (kinda like HTML), then react native calls platform native components to do the actual rendering. So you declare <Button> and what comes out on the other end is a real, genuine windows-provided button.
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Also Clock is now an Electron app running in its own instance of Chromium, because the devs are afraid of static typing, thus everything needed to be in Javascript.
Not sure if joking...
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The clock needs an update every second! /s
"Exact time is no longer available. For the precise time, subscribe to Clock com. Thank you for upgrading "
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"Guys, today we just reinvented time!"
-Microsoft (or something idk...)
I'm installing Linux on an old laptop this October to start getting used to it. Meanwhile I'm getting the extra year of security updates for Windows on my main laptop. Then, when that year is over, I'm installing Linux on my main laptop and sticking with it.
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Modern user-friendly Linux in a nutshell:
"Hey that kernel update finished in the background, unless you were bored enough to stare at this window for the last 3 whole minutes. It would be best to reboot your machine as soon as it works for you, boss! 😎"
Please note however that modern user-friendly linux does not use emojis in notifications about system updates. That was just for fun.
I use mint btw
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Microsoft needs to sit in on a one bar prison for 36hrs. It used to be bad. Now its tortuous.
Why even does anyone put up with any of it?
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My main gripe is Windows Defender. I have an app that integrates with Home Assistant and Windows keeps flagging a component as a Trojan virus. Makes sense, as it's supposed to access admin level functions to read some sensors and enable remote power control.
But for years I've seen MsMpEng.exe, or the antivirus, constantly scan my 4TB HDD, either looking for viruses or doing some stupid NTFS remapping thing. It's loud and only spun up when idle on Win10, but became more aggressive on Win11 with less time to start scanning and not stopping when I move the mouse.
The latest development with breaking my app just means I'm more vigilant in turning the entire antivirus off when it turns on and starts scanning.
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