I tried to roll back the install after the fact and it re-installed itself.
Looks like I got re-themed (big whoop, black background) and then had to go back through all the usuall post-update bullshit to disable default cloud crap, ads, AI, one-drive, teams, copilot, etc.
Did anyone notice that Microsoft spent the years telling everyone they needed upgraded hardware to run Window 11, then last month changed their story?
I hit the spacebar up a laptop the other day and somehow accepted an upgrade I never asked for before the screen could wake up. This was a 3 year old PC that had always consistently maintained it did not have the right components to run Win 11.
@cstross Caterpillar and Harley-Davidson now make money selling logo shirts, hats and boots.
Perhaps they should move in this direction, much lower risks!
@lohang Ten years ago, all my commercial software vendors would scoff at open source along the lines of: "Yeah, right, who do you call when you need support or something goes wrong"
But it seems like all along their engineers have been quietly adopting the code base and integrating it into the products along with potential vulnerabilities and other forms of technical debt without contributing back to to the communities.
AJ Sadauskas
Jen Sorensen