You can disable so-called essential components and I believe it ships without almost any of the bloat. So essentially you could just take one drive out, or not have it in the first place. Or at least that’s my hope

It’s ltsc an option for 11 like it was for 10?

That’s funny but I think Son is easily the dumbest billionaire. He’s also the bag-holder for the whole WeWork grift. Got more dollars than brain cells.

More like, “they will be offered part of the proceeds of any further watches we steal.”

I don’t know if I’m personally part of the class, but if I am, as relief I would want an injunction for them to fucking leave me alone, not shares in their operation.

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I think it’s fair to acknowledge that everything is a trade-off, and without downvotes, we have to accept the downsides.

I’m not sure that’s true - I’m pretty sure it comes from Japanese and other Asian games like Maple Story, then it got picked up by mobile games companies as they were figuring out monetization there, especially Zynga.

constantly screwed over by apple changing things on their platforms.

This was it for me. Like, you’re going to blame valve because apple keeps pulling the carpet out from under devs and users?

No. How about you, are you anti-abortion?

I’m not sure I follow the last “or” clause, but you can bring the criminal liability to Microsoft if you think it should attach for this reason

Lol.

As long as security updates are bundled with antifeature updates, this amounts to “install candy crush or go to jail!”

I’d be fine with what you describe in the second paragraph, but that’s not what’s meant by “forced.” That’s opt-out. Forced is what’s really objectionable, especially when it’s abused, as discussed in the article and elsewhere in these comments.

Even at the risk of Microsoft adding more spyware to my machine, reinstalling apps I deliberately uninstalled, reverting privacy settings I set, strongarming me into using their browser, etc? All of which has been reported.

My hardware, my choice.

Meh. You’re not just talking about just making it automatic or easy or recommended, but actually forcing everyone to have to go along with it and taking away the option to not do it.

Let’s have the authorities force us to eat salad and exercise while we’re at it, it’s better for us

Yes thank you. I’m pretty worried about what happens without this guy. We still have Ed Markey but he’s up there too.

Much as a lot of the worst people in government are relics from another time, age discrimination doesn’t behoove us, IMO. Some of the best are also the most venerable. I’d take Bernie in a heartbeat.

Hate that phrase. Great way to excuse malice.

Explain your reasoning, because if I’m understanding you correctly what I’m saying is the opposite

Oop, wish I’d read this comment before mine. 100% right

“…AI” concerns me. I use quotation marks there because what is often referred to as AI today is not whatsoever what the term once described.

Lost me right there. Not only was and is this AI, but the term gets narrower over time, not broader. If you want to go by “what the term once described,” you have to include computer vision, text to speech, optical character recognition, behavior trees for video game enemies, etc etc etc.

When I see people complain about calling LLMs “AI,” I think the only definition that would satisfy them is “things computers can do that we aren’t used to yet.”