Bruh, install HL2, they added commentary!

The devs explicitly stated in the HL2 commentary that HL3 was not being worked on and that they had no plans on resuming development.

Your company implements ai tools, you make sure it is the most ‘disruptive technology’ they have ever seen.

TF is still using Windows for main? If you care about privacy you only use it as a host for the applications that can’t be ported away.

Ya’ll aren’t actively sabotaging this shit?

FAFO. If you don’t want to control your computer then you wont have control over your computer.

You know what doesn’t have onedrive? Every other OS.

They come with W11 but I wouldn’t say users are forced to use it. My first boot is always into the Debian netinstaller.

The TPM2 requirement is purely to drum up sales for hardware vendors and ensure that they keep bundling Windows with their machines.

Making shareholders happy by increasing profits and padding the CEO’s ego Theft and corruption certainly is.

If they could use use regex they wouldn’t be using an LLM.

And the whole thing where they are trying to dial back rights for everyone but rich white men.

I have a single W10 machine left and that’s only for VR, everything else is Debian and I couldn’t be happier. It only does what I tell it to, updates never break stuff, the Debian repository has literally everything I need.

The 20min a week I spend on W11 PCs at work has only cemented in my mind how much I do not want to deal with that shit.

I have an android phone and hate every second of it. Next time I get a new phone it’s getting GraphineOS on day one.

So much for my Steam Machine plans.

Welp, enjoy your rootkits and privacy violations.

Then start migrating. You could set yourself on fire, as protest, in front of the Microsoft head office and they would just count it as ‘engagement.’

You know which OS wont flip a switch to enable AI slop features? EVERY OTHER OS

Install Linux or BSD, if you are rich buy a Mac that needs replacing in 3 years.

This feature is completely optional and is never turned on by default.

AI desktops sound like a privacy nightmare but right in the article they say, it’s not the default. Every time MS adds another shitware feature there is lots of warning, like this, and there is time for concerned users to find work arounds or jump ship to a more sane OS. We need less clickbait titles and more “how do we work around it” because MS doens’t care about users needs or concerns only increasing revenue.

That is pretty much why. I took one programming class in high school (2004) and since then alway enjoyed solving software puzzles.

I ran my first “smart” phone for more than 5 years before needing an upgrade. My latest Pixel 8 is less than a year old and now has a row of pink pixels. Never been dropped, never been wet, never fast charged.