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'I have nothing to hide."

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That’s not how you spell “Windows 7”.

XP properly started the rubbish which keeps piling up in Windows 11. Remember the online activation, for example?

Still, Windows XP was much more user friendly/user respecting than 11 is.

True. Still, afaik, they haven’t done anything shady.

Because it will give Google full control over your device and it’s software. Same reason they try to close the app landscape on Android.

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The above.

My circle of family, friends and others will extend the list to music videos, health care (mental health and wellness, for example), the shorts, movie trailers, even Hallmark movies.

There is no platform other than YouTube that combines all this crazy amount of content.

There’s PeerTube with notoriously difficult onboarding for the average user and limited content, there’s Loops with extremely limited content… I really wish it were different.

Maybe one day existing platforms will rise. Looking at you, VIMEO, Kick, DailyMotion, DTube…

Fine. Name alternatives for what YouTube is mostly used for and I’ll be the first to take your advise.

We are talking vlogs on huge amounts of topics, product reviews and unboxings, reaction videos, how-to tutorials, gaming videos (walkthroughs, live streams, etc.), ASMR and relaxation content, educational and explainer videos for science, history and finance… and so on.

There’s simply no true alternative.

Even just a top bar would be great.

How could the taskbar regress so badly?

Literally one of the reasons Windows boots so rarely on my devices.

Guess what they look like on my 250 Dollar dumb fridge.

I can even keep my food chilled with it. Plus I can freeze stuff. Even has a light when I open the door. Super practical. You guys should come see it!

Instead of dismissing Signal, I wonder if it could be changed to support a federated model.

Just a thought, because Signal has seen widespread adoption. Getting people to change their messenger is hard.

The headline is clickbait.

• Bricked = totally dead, no recovery without serious intervention; device is completely unusable
• Malfunctioning = buggy, slow, or misbehaving, but still fixable

The GUI? Sure. Check out Zorin OS. Not to your liking?There’s others.

Steam? Mostly, yes. If you have a specific game in mind, a quick Internet search will answer that for you. In my case, 98% of games run (incl. most AAA games).

Good news: you don’t need anti virus on Linux (at least not at this point in time). If you really want to, there’s decent options. But I yet have to encounter an infected Linux machine. Infected Windows machines, on the other hand, are easy to find. With Linux, your security will go up considerably, coming from Windows.

Sure, but you don’t have control. If Microsoft decides that you are not allowed to disable this any longer, you will be left with no true choice.

That’s what Google does with Android, bending everyone to their will, not caring how we feel about any of their policies.

Why would MS be different? Just look at the numerous features Windows 11 removed as compared to 10. Did they give me a choice? Or what about their promise that Windows 10 will be the last Windows? Or what about them forcing people to buy new hardware to run Windows 11?

Trying to disable this stuff ultimately just sugarcoats the ever growing frustrations of using a system that locks down further with every passing year.

What holds you back? Go for it now.

Not worth considering. Even if one can disable it now, we can’t trust that they won’t disable that option eventually.

Just use Linux and these questions become “Oh no. Anyways…”.

Is there unpaid subscriptions?

They’re good. Some policies take some getting used to, though. For example, they lock your (free) account if you don’t use it for six months. You have to start paying if you ever want that email address again (emails are lost AFAIK).

Happened to me after a serious illness. I don’t mind paying, but that soured it so badly for me.

Sometimes I wish media organisations would report with the same hunger about every tiny, little unimportant feature in software I’m involved with.

Then again, it isn’t millions of people using my stuff.

99% sure it - or large parts of it - are AI generated.

But in this case it’s the content that counts, not the artistry.

Sure, but in the meantime I need to work with what I have… which is Intel (on some machines, at least).