mccI don't understand how Windows 10 is discontinued yet Microsoft still finds ways to add new types of advertisements to it
The experience of using Windows 10 is that you walk away from the computer to watch something on TV and when you come back the OS has quit out of all your work applications so it can reboot the computer so it can stuff advertisements (in this case "weather"; apparently news and stock quotes are a kind of weather) into a new place on your computer (in this case the lock screen; I already had one type of advertisements disabled on the lock screen, so they added a second type)
Microsoft: So you've disabled the advertisements for Microsoft products we put on the lock screen.
Me: Yes
Microsoft: And you've disabled the weather widget in the start bar.
Me: Yes.
Microsoft: So you don't want notices on the start screen OR weather.
Me: Correct
Microsoft: Well good news this is start screen notices AND weather. You never said you didn't want them TOGETHER.
Me: Can I disable it
Microsoft: Sure, if you can solve this Rubik's cube
Ah… it turns out I lost an important work email I was writing when Microsoft forcibly rebooted my computer for the very important update to add even more ads to my lockscreen. 👍
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Glenn Fleishman@mcc Forget the weather, we will always be together https://g.co/kgs/HdBPCGu
Cheshire Lunar Kitten@mcc you have to solve it within a minute...
At least that what i had to do.
fabiosantoscode@mcc I guess this is why it periodically asks me to log in with a Microsoft account since I installed it in 2019
As I understand it, you can't say no to a Microsoft account unless you install windows without an internet connection, and then consistently say no to it for years
@fabiosantoscode I installed windows 10 before you required a Microsoft account and if I'd installed it after I wouldn't have installed windows 10
0xC0DEC0DE07EA@mcc the cube sides are also ads!
sarahjanepoppy@mcc this is my dream but I have neither the skills or knowledge to actually stop all this distraction. Still getting loads of news bulletins but only from one source 🫣
Greg Bell@mcc one of these registry settings is always true, the other one always lies. You get one question to tell wh
Mr. GreebYou might already have something like this, but it's worth posting anyway. Removes or suppresses a lot of MS spyware
Video Game King@mcc My experience is more along the lines of Windows telling me to add a phone number to my account (email) to improve security, clicking the icon that lets me do this, and giving Windows the only phone number I have only for it to tell me, "No, we already have that number." Windows will still pester me about this a day or two later.
Alaric Snell-Pym@Video_Game_King @mcc Microsoft seem completely unable to build usable user account management in any of their products. I've seen so many bizarre bugs like that. Many that make it impossible to log into things :-(
Wizarth@mcc Mine has added "On this day" trivia.
Why is my lock screen trying to be social media?
@Wizarth because if the lock screen is social media then they can gradually add advertisements to it
Mike Grusin@mcc lol this is literally exactly what happened to me today as well, with exactly the same thoughts (except slightly more colorful).
Thanks microsoft for making me spend 15 of my productive minutes digging around in the controls to turn this off in your "productivity" software.
Erin@mcc stocks are weather for rich people
Texan_Reverend@mcc Modern Windows is itself such user-hostile spyware/malware that I've been profoundly tempted to just go back to 7 and take my chances.
@mcc I have no idea how I keep avoiding this plague while everyone around me keeps getting served this crap, but I am Dreading the switch to 11
@tibi I am seriously trying to switch to Linux instead. 11 is what pushed me over the edge
@mcc I've considered it many times but I'm really inflexible with my workflows and apps so it would be a huge amount of labor. and despite everything, I know how to wrangle windows while Linux I'd have to learn how to deal with from scratch. 11 would have to be truly catastrophic for me to try switching
@tibi It's only possible because this has been a project I've been slowly on virtually since the release of Win11. And I haven't been able to eliminate use of the Win10 machine yet. I expect when Win10 gets discontinued I'll enter the corporate program where you can pay for extended support for a few extra years. I'm still not clear on how much that costs though.
@mcc I've used Totally Legitimate Means to switch my windows over to a enterprise lts version but I have to wait until EOL to see if that actually does anything
Carl Muckenhoupt@mcc My experience has been more like: Every day it asks me to schedule a time to update, and every day I tell it to ask me again tomorrow.
@CarlMuckenhoupt occasionally for me it is like "i am no longer asking"
Wortex17@mcc But yet virtually none of the fixes
The team cherry picking this must be mad
The team cherry picking this must be mad
Andy Price@mcc They're going to milk that cow until it's EOL and then keep milking it with extended support options while people are willing to pay (plus ads probably).
madmax@mcc My personal favorite:
Download updates without even letting the user know and then retry again & again if it fails, until the user run out of bandwidth. Oh, those days with the bandwidth cap of 1.5 GB/day and then left with 12kbps of speed. Windows 10 had ruined my day multiple times like this.
Download updates without even letting the user know and then retry again & again if it fails, until the user run out of bandwidth. Oh, those days with the bandwidth cap of 1.5 GB/day and then left with 12kbps of speed. Windows 10 had ruined my day multiple times like this.
ISD@mcc my guess is that they try to either
* Annoy people to install Win11
* Make W10 so slow with ads etc that people go "argh, my computer's so unusably slow, got to buy a new one"
* Annoy people to install Win11
* Make W10 so slow with ads etc that people go "argh, my computer's so unusably slow, got to buy a new one"
Luka Rubinjoni@mcc I don't understand why people pay for Windows to have a constant headache about computers, when they can run a random Linux distro and have all sorts of headaches for free.
Tbh, I found the solution. Install windows without paying, like a normal person, and use linux as well to get double the headaches for double the free price.
wilkie@mcc "Your Weekly Intrusive Popup Reminding You That You Need To Upgrade to Windows 11 --- Sponsored By Hulu"
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