date: Mon Jan 27 04:52:09 UTC 2025 subj: microsoft windows 11 rant auth: bbsing ----------------------------------------- we shouldn't consider junking our older computers that can't run windows 11. I quit you windows. My hostility is F those M Fers. --------------------------------------------------------------- I was at my wife's parents house the other day, and I asked him if he wanted me to install ubuntu on his laptop. A few weeks ago he called me telling me how upset he is about windows 10 support is going away this october (2025). I told him no worries I can get ubuntu on his system. So back to the other day. ... he continued on about how upset he is. He says something like .... what is everyone supposed to do.. run out and buy a new computer? He talked about the message microsoft is sending him every time he boots up his computer about gaming and all this stuff he doesn't use. He says people should be able to just do basic stuff on basic computers and not worry about a huge computer for gaming. His solution to windows 10 support going way is converting all his old systems to ubuntu. Between the time he called me on the phone annoyed about microsoft ending their support for windows, my wife's computer which handed been booted up in a year, hit the network and got the big blocker of a message about upgrading to windows 11. Her system is new enough to run windows 11, and I kicked off the upgrade. That upgrade of course failed without a obvious reason why ... and after 2 days the upgrade completed. That really annoying part is when I turned on her computer I was actually trying to use it, but microsoft stopped me from doing what I needed to do, and put me through a decision tree compel me to upgrade. This annoys the hell of me. I've been side tracked to deal with microsoft bullshit instead of using the computer to do what I need to do. ---------- There is so much of microsoft's bullshit getting in my way and its AI hiding emails its pissing me off more and more. See for work I have to use windows and excluding windows servers, I can't figure out why windows is still the desktop of choice for most systems being sold. Their control of the user has seemed to increase and with AI crap everywhere its only getting worse. ----------------------- telnet insecure side track ---------------------------- when telnet was found to be insecure, The UNIX Linux world moved to ssh, why the hell didn't microsoft move to ssh? Their OS had telnet server with the basic os... but when the dropped it, how many years did it take for ssh to appear in windows? what is wrong with microsoft such a decision? ---------------------------- As frustrating has this windows 11 thing is I really think I'm done with windows. Most of the time I use a raspberrypi for my desktop, and I've been using their systems that way since they've come out 2013 (with pain back then). I pay the price to upgrade to the next model pi every few years, and deal with technical challenges I get myself into, but raspberry pi has at least continued to support their hardware with an OS capability that has a path in the non-pay zone. ----------------------------------- Like my father ... I see no need to run out and buy a new computer so I can put windows 11 on it. I understand why microsoft did what they did from their stated ideas about computing security and attempting to jail processes via virtualisation .. etc. How did we let the world build such crap software that requires users to buy new hardware every few years instead of build on a foundation of usability and compatibility. I really think their is another purpose for their virtualzation or newer hardware requirements, something that hasn't come to the surface yet, but on the trend most of the IT shops been moving towards. (some form of abuse and control). Right now I have this beliefe that more and more crapware is out their and the main problem/solution is getting people to purchase crapware. In 1.5 years after that software/hardware bundle is purchased its obsolete and broken and the developers handed users buggy ass software that doesn't work that well or often and suck, then they are off working on doing it again. ------------------------------------ At my work they got really excited about AGILE and MVP (minimal viable product) a few years later we have a bunch of buggy crap that sucks, has no documentation and the developers and teams that created it are long gone. The company calls this saving money, in the short term they saved but in the long term they cripple themselves ... it hurts. ------------------------------------ I aint buying no new computer for windows, and I'll probably pay the price for it I'm sure, in some way I'll pay the dang price. Like the HAM operator software and upgrades all for windows... what will they do when ever HAM operator can't buy a new computer so they can upgrade their firmware on their radio? I think about BSD for all these years BSD has been able to run on new computers and old computers. Is microsft liberating its users? Is microsoft abusing its users? Is microsoft teamed up with advertisement delivery systems of the internet? Seems microsoft were very bullish in the 90s and early 2000s in being part of the creative world, they stole form linux and the open-source community but at lease created great memories for today's nostalgic users, but now outside of their server and AD systems ... they are just a reason to go with Unix or Linux. Maybe my sentiment is a signal my end of the line approaching. If you've been in the buis long enough the main game starts to appear, and the realization (for now) appears its all about selling something, not about liberation, freedom, and making information more free and more available. All about control and domination. Solving the problem of extracting money from users without giving them anything real in exchange. --------------------------- AI bullshit: do we really need an AI to tell us what someone else said, and send them a summarized version of the communication? People are getting so bad at communicating with each other how about AI doing all of that for you, in 10 years people won't even be able to read or write (I'm almost there myself). Let us all have them sells the product TAKING AWAY YOUR AUTONOMY ... its so fun! you can go back to drinking sugar pop, for now. ---------------------------- For those who missed the mid days of the internet, their was a war between advertisements and ad-blockers. The web browsers were in the battle field and the battle ended, the adds lost due to the battle field changing, but slowly the sinister evils of the web browsers colluded to make it so more and more users abuse would appear by web 2 and web 3, and computer users are just a means to manipulate, sell, and remove usable information from the collective, replacing it with crapolation, and idiot AI. -------------------------------- Is AI here to make the internet so dystopic, so shitty that the users will revile and sicken its repulsion causes them to leave the screen and return to living in the real world? Or is it to continue making a large network of one giant transaction center surrounded by ignorance and fools gold?