Our Computer

I was bored at work so chatted with Microsoft support about this.

Summary of funny part

Me: no, it's an advertisement, asking me to try a Microsoft product. The ad came through my message tray. I have all ad services turned off.

Them: that's not an ad, that's recommendation for a better service

Me: are you aware that you just described an advertisement?

Them: yes.

Lmao is that a Lemmy watermark? 💀

I've been on Linux for a while but this shit is starting to make my wife ask about switching over. Which is something I never thought I'd see.

It’s been downhill since Windows 7. I think this will be my last Windows PC.

I just don’t feel safe with Windows that next time I boot up there won’t be some fresh horror I didn’t ask for and have to go research how to put back in the bottle.

It’s like having your computer pre-rooted with malware.

Yes, being comoditized by a corporation. True socialism comrade. Truly we've seized the means of production.

Install Linux, problem resolved.

Actually its their🇺🇸. Not your, not our. Its their own and you arr kinda like renting it

Friends don't let friends drive windows.

The first thing you would do after browsing lemmy would be installing linux because there are many foss enthusiasist and linux users playing around here in lemmy making you switch to linux

That’s in fact why I’m a linux user now

I think you'll find it is no longer "My Computer" but now "This PC"

Oppression breeds rebellion, why relying on a software you have zero control over, that the company that owns it respects you so litle that they pre install adware and spyware, learn to use Linux or BSD, you don't have to use it all the time, but learn the basics, understand how this machine you use so much works, seize that litle piece of freedom back, and even if you choose to use windows again, after knowing more of how things work, you will be more able to force it in working your way.

Only linux is "ours"

When you install windows ypu can set timezone to "world" and it will not be there...

You can also avoid making a microsoft account (or logging in) if you log innusing [email protected] and any password.

Then it will say something went wrong but you can continue, by making an offline account

I swear to god if I have to remove Bing search bar from my desktop one more time...

I've got a worse one. I was using Windows in a VM the other day and got an ad for Xbox controllers. Basically "check out our new controller colors, click on this notification to go buy one."

My absolute most hated one is when signing in and using a two factor Authenticator. If you don’t use the Microsoft one. Every time you log in it “recommends” you to use their own. Fuck off.

Before anyone says go Linux. This is a work comp. I use Linux and Mac at home.

Isn't it suspicious how hard they've been pushing "clipchamp"? Like it's probably full of telemetry or something.

Yeah, being forced to sit through unskippable ads in order to even just play solitaire is real special. And even if you close the program and restart your PC, the ads are still right there waiting for you to watch before you can continue with your game. This is probably going to be my last Windows machine.

The notification center is useless, if I have an app-specific notification then it's highlighted in my taskbar anyway. All of the inline ads are delivered through notifications, so just turn off notification center in registry and the problem is solved. Same for removing edit with clipchamp from context menus. Tbh I'm not super against them bringing attention to their 1st party apps because things like the Photos app happen occasionally and that was an objective improvement for OS-bundled photo software. The problem is that Clipchamp sucks ass

Socialism is when a corporation does stuff.

And it’s more socialism the more stuff it does.

And if it does a whole load of stuff, that’s communism.

"You are the product"

Is this american or windows 11 thing? I have never seen stuff like that on windows 10

OC for you.

No shit, who else would add a damn lemmy watermark.

Honestly it's so annoying that instead I decided to get a FOSS video editor instead

It's so ironic that a paid product that you'll never own and is so anti consumer is used by most over the alternative that you could own for free and cares about users! Keep complaining🍿

That is exactly why you buy cheap keys for your windows install and remove everything you don't need. Edge got nuked from orbit by me and most annoying ads disappeared with it. I killed all notifications and I am now much happier.