• vegeta@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It seems the report of my demise has been greatly exaggerated, would you like to see an ad?

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        Windows treats you as being protected by European norms so you don’t have to experience all the bullshit… I’ve never seen any of the ads people keep talking about, I don’t live in Europe, I just tell Windows to use English UK as Windows’ language and then set my regional stuff based on what I actually want.

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    3 months ago

    Honestly I prefer this to Microsoft Edge stealing (importing) all my chrome passwords and bookmarks without my consent. Something they do from time to time.

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    3 months ago

    Just in case you thought they forgot to hate you even more for still refusing to update to Windows 11.

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      Work is one thing. I’m fine with it for work. Work is my company’s data, not mine.

      At home tho? Fuck that shit.

      Pop!_os for life at home.

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        Same here, but with macOS instead of Windows at work, and openSUSE instead of Pop!_OS at home.

        My work can use what they like, but I’ll use Linux at home.

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    3 months ago

    I read the article. Deceptive headline.

    I dont see start menu ads? I see the account manager button will take you to your m365 account instead of your local account settings. This is what’s inside the article, i dont know where they got the title from.

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            3 months ago

            It’s just them moving their accounts to be cloud accounts instead of local accounts.

            That sucks, but they’ve been pushing for that since Windows 7 I think?

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              I think that started on Win8 and fully implemented on Win10. I don’t remember Win7 have this BS. At least not obvious that makes me remember if they have.

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                Yeah, I haven’t used Windows for like 15 years, so I don’t remember exactly when they started pushing for cloud accounts. But it’s not new with Windows 11, it’s been their focus for at least 10 years now.