• @I_Miss_Daniel
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    4 hours ago

    Set up a new pc for someone today. Turned off all the OneDrive backup options. Rebooted and copied their files from a USB to SATA adapter. They turned the backup settings back on again!

    Can’t trust Microsoft.

    • @[email protected]
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      334 hours ago

      Yep. I’ve set up Windows a few times recently, and they don’t give even the slightest consideration for your settings. Few days later, they changed right back.

      They will be configured to benefit Microsoft first. Maybe not immediately. But it sounds like a losing game.

    • Ogmios
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      4 hours ago

      They “trust me” dumb fucks

      May not have been Gates that said it, but it embodies an attitude which appears prevalent throughout big business.

      Edit: O&O Shut Up is a free tool that helps you easily turn off/disable quite a few of the worst “features” on Windows.

      • Refurbished Refurbisher
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        35 minutes ago

        There’s Windows 11 IoT LTSC if you really need Windows, but Microsoft is going to continue to fuck its users, and I don’t know why people in the know would choose to continue to use an OS that’s actively working against them when non-corporate, open source alternatives exists (Linux, or for the more niche people, BSD, Haiku, Redox)

    • Jagothaciv
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      84 hours ago

      Sure but they are so criminal they turn them right back on in an update.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 hours ago

        It really hasn’t though. MS used to make money selling Windows and other software licenses for shit that you owned. Back in the day before personal data was The New Oil.