Yes, very true. It would be so nice to be able to get that as an OOBE behavior rather than a hacked together set of registry hacks and patched executables. Not denigrating the devs of these projects, they do an amazing job out engineering Microsoft’s attempts to stop them. It’s just absurd that the primary/only option for the operating system of a set of devices as ubiquitous as personal computers is such advertisment riddled shit with no ability to even buy out of it.
Man, can you imagine how good a bare bones version of win 10 would be? Drop all the useless software and telemetry services, only run the 3 or 4 background services that people use, and use flat window decorations like win 8. Essentially a modernized windows XP. Would be rad.
How could I when I’ve been being notified it’s existence for the better part of the last decade?
Microsoft is truly the king of putting out a product that no one wanted or asked for, then wondering why no one wants it. I’m sure they will soon begin the second phase of any Microsoft product: spending a small country’s GDP marketing it to try to get people to use it, despite it being prominently displayed on approximately 5 billion operating systems already.
A tried and true strategy to piss through more money than god to justify spending more money than god building the thing that no one wants. Looking at you, IE and edge.
So… Pretty much the exact behavior that caused crowdstrike? If only they could afford a testing environment.
Had an account on .world, but that instance has non stop tech issues. Db0 seemed nice enough, and anarchists are decent company.
Not talking about individuals, homie. Talking about companies.
The snark of the following comment is not directed towards you, OP, but at the tech industry at large.
What I don’t understand is why people are still surprised when this shit happens. Today, cloudflare takes down half the internet, last month it was AWS. Crowdstrike did it last year even more severely. Akamai has also caused major issues like this before, as has Google. M365/azure outages barely get reported on because they are so frequent. Yet, they are all still being used to hold up most of our infrastructure. Every single company I’ve done IT for has used at least one of these companies for critical infrastructure. There just aren’t any other realistic options due to the refusal of non IT people to learn about IT.
If you try to use something other than one of the big companies, you’re hit with one or more roadblocks.
You “don’t have the budget” to selfhost. Bean counters would rather pay $100 a month indefinitely than $5k to buy new hardware that will save $1000 a month for years.
No approval for non giant corpo option, because using AWS is cheaper and has brand recognition. This is due to the same economics and myopia that caused Walmart to be one of the only places you can get groceries.
There is no other option. Every year that goes by, more small companies get gobbled up by big tech M&A. Unless your company opts to create its own implementation of a service/software, you’re stuck with one of only a few options, even if you could get the approval to use something not run on big tech.
Even if you manage to jump all of the previous hurdles, the Internet connected software you’re using probably relies on big tech infrastructure too. Every company has to navigate all of these hurdles for every saas/infrastructure implementation, and the only ones that successfully do it have to have leadership that not only understands why the decisions have to be made, but also need to be willing to accept the extra cost. Anyone that has dealt with upper management knows that this is exceptionally rare.
So what we are left with is a system that every professional knows is deeply broken and monopolized. The people that actually make the final decisions are largely ignorant and unwilling to invest money in fixing it, instead choosing short term savings and lack of commitment over long term security and continuity.
“accused”? They literally found women being held against their will at his building. The only reason he isn’t rotting in a Romanian prison for human trafficking is Donald Trump.
Because our road systems are designed around cars. This means that it’s dangerous and impeding when a cyclist shares the road. Unfortunately, we just keep building bigger roads and removing bike lanes. This just serves to make it more of a pain in the ass for literally everyone because bikers have to use the car lanes instead of just paving an extra 6 feet of road.
TL;DR america will pave every natural surface for traffic, but won’t mark any sliver of it for bikes.
This. I’m not into violence, but the Republicans are getting scary and they have a lot of weapons. It’d be easier to reconcile my issues with violence if I had to shoot someone than it’d be to reconcile the issues I’d have if I wasn’t able to fight them trying to hurt me or my family.
Plus target shooting is fun.
And? Shitty people create and maintain a good portion of the world. They aren’t wholly representative of the users of their product.
Woah woah woah, don’t you go lumping me in with the goofballs over in .ml
What? The rich expected anyone to think that they would leave some of their favorite status symbols?
Imbecilic moron idiot dumb stupid head - official government communications, apparently
Personally, I’m floating the theory that Trump was involved with both Hilary and Bill for a period of time. When Hilary broke it off, Don was heartbroken, causing his reflexive swing to the right to counter her perceived leftness. This theory is strengthened by his inability to let go of anything she does, he still blames her for the loss of his only true emotional connection, and it’s also why his wife always looks so distant. She knows that he still longs for those balmy 90s nights where the boys wore nothing but a power tie and a saxophone and Hilary, her signature suit.
Sorry.
Ahh, I see. Fred Flintstone has a family. I was close.
Oh let’s see here, .ml I presume?.. Oh yes it is indeed a .ml user!
Still unsatisfied with every single human being in existence, all of the time?