and now they hike the price (upgrade you) with copilot and 365 - unreal how they just increase the price and dont tell you your old plan is now BASIC but you cant have it unless you cancel
I know some people get annoyed when they're told to just ditch Windows, but hear me out. If you can't control your OS or know what it's doing, it's untrustworthy. If you have to fight your OS on every update, make sure they haven't reset any of your privacy settings etc. then it's a lost battle. Microsoft owns your data and your PC is just a part of their botnet fleet. I've been there before. Last Windows I liked was 7 and things got worse with every further release. They took away more and more control from you and pushed more and more things I didn't want without asking. I was doing all the tricks I could find to turn off and hide things I didn't want. It just got worse and worse while Microsoft was increasingly giving themselves more permissions through EULA changes. Instead of doing this Sisyphus work, try Linux. It's good enough already to replace Windows permanently.
You're kind of preaching to the choir there, you know. :) I already use Linux, and plan to replace my W10 machines with Linux as they age out. But I can't enforce that decision for all of my customers. I am an external contractor, telling them to change everything--all of their authentication mechanisms, all of the servers running all of their application infrastructure, all the line-of-business applications--such a tremendous amount of upheaval has to have a tremendous reason to be worthwhile. For most of them, ideology and principles alone is not sufficient. They either need to be exposed to legal liability (using Microsoft could get them in trouble with the law), or financial liability (the monetary cost of doing nothing is higher than the monetary cost of uprooting everything). Practically speaking, then, I still need to know how to control Windows. Not for my own machines, but for those I service. It may be a Sisyphean task, but it's part of my job. Best I can do is at least share what I learn so others can benefit from it too.
saved this video , because i'm sure i will be needing this in the future :)
and now they hike the price (upgrade you) with copilot and 365 - unreal how they just increase the price and dont tell you your old plan is now BASIC but you cant have it unless you cancel
I hate this annoying copilot, but can’t just delete it. It just intrude in my work with Powerpoint and Word, which I regularly use.
I know some people get annoyed when they're told to just ditch Windows, but hear me out.
If you can't control your OS or know what it's doing, it's untrustworthy. If you have to fight your OS on every update, make sure they haven't reset any of your privacy settings etc. then it's a lost battle. Microsoft owns your data and your PC is just a part of their botnet fleet.
I've been there before. Last Windows I liked was 7 and things got worse with every further release. They took away more and more control from you and pushed more and more things I didn't want without asking. I was doing all the tricks I could find to turn off and hide things I didn't want. It just got worse and worse while Microsoft was increasingly giving themselves more permissions through EULA changes.
Instead of doing this Sisyphus work, try Linux. It's good enough already to replace Windows permanently.
You're kind of preaching to the choir there, you know. :) I already use Linux, and plan to replace my W10 machines with Linux as they age out.
But I can't enforce that decision for all of my customers. I am an external contractor, telling them to change everything--all of their authentication mechanisms, all of the servers running all of their application infrastructure, all the line-of-business applications--such a tremendous amount of upheaval has to have a tremendous reason to be worthwhile. For most of them, ideology and principles alone is not sufficient. They either need to be exposed to legal liability (using Microsoft could get them in trouble with the law), or financial liability (the monetary cost of doing nothing is higher than the monetary cost of uprooting everything).
Practically speaking, then, I still need to know how to control Windows. Not for my own machines, but for those I service. It may be a Sisyphean task, but it's part of my job. Best I can do is at least share what I learn so others can benefit from it too.