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What's the difference between big software companies and drug cartels? No, this is not the opening line of a joke.
cackles maniacally in Linux
At this point I can only assume that Microsoft is actively trying to punish me for using their products.
Ever since Windows 8, Microsoft has shown to be a sadist.
Windows ME has some shit to say.... Then Windows 8 will be next to have a chat.
Windows ME wasn't a sadist. It would have to actually work to get that far. The best thing that happened to a laptop I had which came with ME installed was to put Win98 on it. Ran great after that.
Windows ME was a bastardization of the NT and DOS environment. I was a Microsoft support analyst at the time. From the insiders perspective, it was the biggest pile of shit
ME was a freak of software development, not an outright sadistic experience.
It's kind of amazing how much they're willing to tear down in hopes of this "" incredible "" AI vision
lol
they just keep piling on justifications for switching away
You have been warned. We're still doing it, but at least we did warn you. The fuckery of MicroShit knows no bounds.
Where are the techbros that warned me of malware since W10 is EOL? Do you like your new AI built-in malware, cunts?
God, I gotta switch to Mint for good...
The LLMs demand more data, so MS is providing it by scraping our personal hard drives. Well, not mine, but still most peoples.
I still have Win10 running on an air-gapped laptop because there are no Linux drivers for my cheap auto-feed scanner, which I'm using to scan a raft of old photos. Once that project is done, I'll put Linux Mint on it, and use it for something fun.
Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Steam, LibreOffice, Obsidian, and Jellyfin do everything I want from a desktop.
your personal hard drive? Did you mean OneDrive?
"I see you are dual booting with Linux? I've reformatted that partition for you."
Um, just in case, I'll have you know that I name all my folders "trans porn". It doesn't mean anything in particular.
I think I may have caused some confusion and after some research I can see why.
Naturally I was referring to transistors and transformers, and pictures thereof. Ha ha lol guys can we forget this now?
A volume of NTFS that is filled entirely by folders named "trans porn" would mean that there isn't a single folder in there that contains 2 folders.
New organizing system just dropped. It's just a chain of five thousand trans porn folders. The depth means something to the creator.
You can now have 128 files in your filesystem.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximum-file-path-limitation?tabs=registry
I think I could honestly get away with 128 deep paths. I don't use more than twenty unique folders in my day-to-day computing. It might be difficult to get the various programs on board with my trans porn name for each folder, but that's what tinkering is for, eh?
Why? Who's asking for this stuff, is there somebody out there who is really pleased with this news or is Microsoft really just that out of touch.
I don't want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks, but Microsoft are pushing me towards it.
Consumers are not the main driver of profit, speculative value is. Microsoft knows that Windows is guaranteed to be on the majority of PC's, which means they can afford to implement hostile features that increase the speculative value on data collection and AI investment.
This is well said. So many people don't get that of course these companies know you hate this shit.
They're just trying to boost their stock value and violate your privacy harder.
So it's going to be opt-in not opt-out. Just don't turn it on. Simple as. 🤷♂️
How to disable Copilot
For Pro, Enterprise, or Education users
Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click "Turn off Windows Copilot," select "Enabled," then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
For Home users
Home users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change.
opt-in for now.... much like how they eventually snuck in their built-in spyware to screenshot your desktop behind the scenes.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2025
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