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- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 9 hours ago:
If this literal malware (I say that because again, what MS is proposing here is what some actual viruses used to do) gets ported to the Enterprise and IoT SKUs, the people who work on this stuff for a living at the local call center or public school district are going to have a nightmare on their hands.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 10 hours ago:
Looks like this isn’t ripe for abuse in any way…
sarcasm - Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 day ago:
More like MS enabling Bitlocker and causing data loss without the user knowing about it, something that’s been pissing a lot of people off lately, and forced obsolescence refers to Win11 blocking everything prior to Zen+ and Coffee Lake, compounded with Win10 going EOL soon, which has at least the intended effect of making people buy a new PC even if their old PC is still good otherwise, and not all people are comfortable with having to sign up for an online account just to install their OS and would rather make a local account if possible; MS recently axed the workaround which enabled that for the consumer versions of Windows.
Also, I didn’t know local backups of your data ala simply copying it to an external drive at the minimum, weren’t an option that existed anymore.
sarcasm - Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 days ago:
So, forced Bitlocker, forced obsolescence of otherwise still viable hardware, forced online accounts, and Copilot/Recall make Win11 the best PC OS?
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 days ago:
I was thinking more in terms of MS locking out everything prior to Coffee Lake or Zen+ from running Win11, rendering a lot of otherwise still viable hardware obsolete, killing off Win10 GAC, and essentially forcing the purchase of a new PC with Win11 installed.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 days ago:
If Win11 adoption is really massive, it’s because MS forced it down people’s throats.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 5 days ago:
I thought this was never going to get ported to GOG. Sweet!
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 week ago:
I hope I’m not the only one in here who nuked my Reddit account voluntarily after they started ramping up censorship.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
I ditched Reddit because the writing’s on the wall for them becoming a complete hellscape with their ramping up of censorship recently, and I jumped ship before that Titanic sinks.
- Comment on Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages. 3 weeks ago:
I’d more likely argue they’re facilitating it, but that’s just me.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 3 weeks ago:
Adobe’s been starting to get some pushback and people ditching them for FOSS alternatives lately, though.
- Comment on Anyone remember how popular the group Head Cleaner was? 4 weeks ago:
Head Cleaner unironically sounds like something a group really would’ve called themselves.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 details: Screen size, controllers, storage, microphone chat and games 4 weeks ago:
The fact that Nintendo is trying to bring back literal license dongles with their Game-Key Card, when dongle DRM died in the '80s for games for a reason, don’t help matters.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 4 weeks ago:
The ‘not leaving centralized services’ thing isn’t really helped when there’s basically no other viable alternatives, like is the case with YT. PeerTube exists, sure, but it’s a content desert, sadly.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 4 weeks ago:
Google’s been attacking those lately, mostly to success (Piped and Invidious are effectively dead, ViewTube is also dead, and FreeTube’s a target now).
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 weeks ago:
Nothing’s stopping you from nuking your Windows install and installing some Linux distro though, at least on PC.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 weeks ago:
Blender at least has gotten to the point where an indie flick made with it actually won some Oscars and other big awards, so that pretty much put it on the map as a viable Maya or 3DSMax alternative, so there’s that.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 weeks ago:
No it’s not, multiplayer games with anticheat that hard-locks you into Windows and productivity software with DRM that hard-locks you into Windows is still a thing, if that were to stop being a thing, then Windows’ dominance on the desktop might finally be threatened, but until then, sadly, no.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 5 weeks ago:
That applies for PeerTube, Matrix, Pixelfed, and Mastodon as well.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 5 weeks ago:
I’d argue Lemmy and other decentralized platforms are the last bastion for free speech instead of Reddit though.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 5 weeks ago:
I’m not and never was banned from there, however I left on my own accord after this happened, as if all their other enshittification didn’t reinforce that decision.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 5 weeks ago:
And my Reddit account is now gone, I nuked it.
- Comment on Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever. 5 weeks ago:
The current American regime is a good reason for them to not only move to whatever the data storage equivalent of a tax haven is, but also move fully to Tor/I2P to cover their tracks against any enemy powers.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 5 weeks ago:
One more reason to use Lemmy.
- Comment on Finally, a Linux laptop with a brilliant display and performance that rivals my MacBook (from Germany) 5 weeks ago:
Framework’s doing a pretty good job standing out for laptops anyways, with their user-repairability focus.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 1 month ago:
Alright then MS, (this is hypothetical as I haven’t ran Windows as my main OS in years and don’t plan on going back), since you want me to trade in my hardware, how 'bout I trade in your OS instead? :p
- Comment on X Sues Indian Government Over Expanded Censorship Powers in High Court. 1 month ago:
X is one to talk given how bad they are about censorship themselves.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 1 month ago:
This was bound to happen, someone was going to attack the Nazi propaganda platform formerly known as Twitter at some point.
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 1 month ago:
At least you can still use your older hardware, and at least Radeon cards as old as GCN1 are still actively supported outside of Windows.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 1 month ago:
You can always build a PC and not have to deal with that UEFI signing stuff as you’re expected to provide your own OS still, that option hasn’t been eliminated yet.