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NoneYa ,

I imagine they’d have some customers who would flip over that even that it’s the same size portion they wanted to order.

“You ordered the small, but we don’t have small containers.”

“Yeah but it’s not full!!”

NoneYa ,

Close, but it was “don’t be evil”.

NoneYa ,

You’re unfortunately correct. IT departments will just implement a new GPO to modify registry or otherwise hope to block this or pause this update until they absolutely have no choice and then hope for the best or hope to block it later down the line.

NoneYa ,

I kept wondering what would keep me from updating to newer versions of Windows.

Yeahhhh…this is it. This and the inevitable forced Microsoft accounts that will come with this.

The Microsoft of the past was evil, but at least you could pay for an upgrade to the enterprise version that didn’t include this bullshit, but even the enterprise versions suffer from this stuff too!

NoneYa ,

For anyone wondering, there are tools out there that will help you debloat Windows 10 and 11 and remove things like these obnoxious ads in the Start Menu. I did this last year on Windows 11 and even after countless updates, the debloating has remained. The tool I used also had an option to permanently “pause” Windows Updates too, but I didn’t choose that for the sake of security updates.

It’s terrible what Microsoft has done to the OS, overall, but for those of us who have to use it (and have control over the computer), we have this as an option to make the experience a little better, at least.

I can’t remember the exact tool I used but I highly recommend it for anyone dealing with this. There are many tools that will do this that are available and can be found by just Googling Windows debloater tool.

NoneYa ,

On most computers, if you hit F12 in any Office application, it will bring the classic Save As window to bypass this bullshit.

It’s also nice if you ever wonder where a document was recently saved. I hit F12 again to see where it last saved.

I use it all the time at work because this has always been such an ugly, convoluted piece of shit to deal with when I just want to save to my local storage.

NoneYa ,

Thanks for the shoutout 😊 glad I could share something helpful today!

NoneYa ,

They do in more quiet ways nowadays. Microsoft Office and GamePass, for example, can only be used on Windows (unless you count the cloud versions that work through the browser).

Then there’s workplaces which most workplaces use Windows. You cannot escape it there.

My workplace is in the process of locking down remote work to where you can’t use Linux for anything anymore. I was looking for a way to remote in using Linux so I could ditch my Windows devices but even that is not going to be an option for me. Defender is enabling that type of stuff more easily in the name of security.

NoneYa ,

Not surprising when you look at how much they’ve increased their annual park subscription.

And to be honest, I can’t blame them when people keep buying it and they’re still keeping the parks full. I wouldn’t hesitate that they are having a lot of subscribers too and hardly anyone leaves when they increase the price.

Such a shame for the rest of us that don’t want to put up with these price hikes.

NoneYa ,

I mean it’s enabling Disney to do it, isn’t it?

It’s a luxury service. It’s not a necessity. If it were a necessity, I wouldn’t blame other customers because everyone needs it. But when you keep giving money to a company who keeps raising the price without doing anything to benefit you, you can’t tell me that’s not enabling these anti-consumerist practices.

Going back to the Disney parks, with the price increases, they have actually taken away benefits like no black out dates, forcing members into reservations, and more. And yet people still pay for this..?

Yeah, it is a shame for the rest of us that don’t put up with this and vote with our wallets because it means nothing.

NoneYa , (edited )

Edit: disregard this comment. Learned more about AirTags and this will NOT work if you are on Android. AirTags rely on other iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) and only work with Android in notifying you if one is following you to protect you against being stalked. But they do not have GPS and are incompatible with Android’s Bluetooth, so yeah, sorry. Thought this would be a good idea but apparently I didn’t fully understand how these worked so disregard below.

Since he’s on iPhone, what about you carrying an Apple AirTag that is connected to his account?

To be fair, I don’t know the specifics on battery and the like, but seems like a possible hardware solution given that he’s on iPhone.

There are also other devices that are similar and work with Apple’s Find My network too.

NoneYa ,

Those fuckers got away so nicely for having such shitty security practices. They have the nerve to ask me to sign up for a paid subscription every time I log in to check my score with them.

Motherfucker, I don’t even want to use your services for free. I’m required to as long as I have to play the credit game and it’s honestly really unfair you get to stay in business and barely got a slap on the wrist for all the shit you caused for millions of people.

NoneYa ,

I think you and the other are right that most of the people who would be searching for this type of answer would be involved in some crime as part of the process, but I can also think of situations where this can be used for legitimate reasons and most of these are outliers but still legitimate.

The (current) top comment here mentions a few, one being if you’re famous and want to avoid, for example, an Amazon employee or a USPS employee knowing who you are and where you live based on the packages you receive. You may be trying to lay low from actual criminals and can’t rely on police because of corruption reasons. You may be a whistleblower and can’t rely on the government for protection but still need things and shipping is objectively much safer than physically leaving your house for your necessities or things needed for your operation. Or you could just be a paranoid person, which is okay in the sense of not breaking the law, just someone who values their privacy for irrational reasons, but nothing inherently illegal or even morally/ethically wrong.

NoneYa ,

I have a Chromebook and it’s ridiculous how difficult they made it to install another OS.

I eventually did, but I needed to get something to flash a third party boatloader and at first I was told my laptop was not supported.

But getting an actual Linux distro has been so much better than ChomeOS.

NoneYa ,

Almost exact situation I have except mine was longer than a few months ago.

My boss tells me on every annual review we have that I’m too hard on myself. It’s still hard to get out of that mindset.

But I believe it helps me stay a productive worker so it works itself out in the end, versus someone who is arrogant and never betters themselves or does more to make up for what they think they’re missing.

NoneYa ,

This whole rapey lingo needs to fucking die already.

No means no, corporations. Not “maybe later”, not “remind me later”…it’s a yes or a no.

Every company does it now and I’m sick to death of it. Even for the free trials like YouTube Premium. I don’t want your fucking shit. Leave me alone.

NoneYa ,

As someone who works in corporate IT and dabbles in the security side too: don’t.

People do it and I don’t understand why. Use your personal cell phone or whatever else.

We have logs of everything that goes on that device and we could do more if we so desired. So treat every corporate device as a spy on everything that goes on in it.

We view logs only when incidents happen and they do and it never looks good on the employee who was doing X. I get people who browse Snapchat and YouTube off hours and then click an ad and invite crap into the device and now we see everything you were doing after hours when we do the investigation into the incident. But we do also get alerts about other things, so you never know when someone will pull in something.

And things that seem innocent to you may not to your corporate employer or just those technicians like myself who have access to the logs and could use it against you.

Moral: don’t do anything but work things on company devices.

NoneYa ,

Ask it what happened on June 4, 1989

NoneYa ,

That seems so backwards. Computers almost are always better at doing math than humans, so how is that proving the visitor is a human??

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NoneYa ,

They know how to make a gal feel so special 🥰

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