Nobody wants to admit this, but you didn’t own your Windows 8/7/Vista/XP PC either. Or any of the previous iterations, or any MacOS devices.
It was just less noticeable and invasive. Same idea, same process, but simply closer to ‘in early development’ than to ‘final build’.
Windows 11 isn’t the problem. The problem started long before at least half of us were even born. Until recently most ignored it, because it ‘wasn’t that bad’. Then it got really bad.
At least back in the day you had to install the malware, either intentionally or accidentally. Now it’s built in and by the people you trusted.
I’m not technically allowed to sell the Lenovo laptop I bought earlier this year unless I get permission from the US Govt. It says so right on the invoice
Jokes on them, I’m selling it anyway hah ha.
Does anyone else hear the sound of chinooks?
You mean “Our Computer”, comrade.
You’re not wrong but fuck you for pointing this out. Anyways have you heard about Linux?
Ah yes My /
soon coming to a server near you … and this kids, is why we self host …
“The cloud is just someone else’s computer”
Also related: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/
If you must stay on windows, use a real encryption software like Veracrypt to protect your disk. Its the successor to TrueCrypt and supports pre-boot auth and all kinds of real encryption methods that won’t be broken by a shit vendor being a dick
Gearing up for this product https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/link
People fucking laughed at me when I said this was coming.
WAAAAYLP, here we are
If the mother country wasn’t going full on Nazi, as someone who wouldn’t install Windows on anything in my household, I would unironically have used that to test cross-platform-compatibility of my software. Although last time I was looking for renting a VM only for a week or two.
But fuck this, I will no longer care about Windows compatibility.
Please correct me if needed, but why? This is the epitome of anti-cross platform.
It’s as close to negative platform as you could possibly get.
I have honestly no idea what you mean by “anti-cross platform” or “negative platform”.
I mean that it’s a box that you can’t change anything on, it’s basically just a thin client that connects you to locked down windows on a server somewhere
If I can’t install cygwin, a C++ compiler and an editor of choice, then it is useless. But I was assuming (probably too naive) this would be possible.
To be fair you may be able to on the early iterations until it takes over the enterprise space, and the personal space, and when they’ve got it all, they lock it the fuck down.
This is obviously speculation, but I think it’s a pretty informed guess.
Is this online only? That sounds like a very bad time.
Minimal OS thin client, everything will be online/cloud storage
Even at the time where it still stated “My Computer” it was already theirs. Because you could not access or modify a lot of system files.
Only if you weren’t brave enough.
