• Chais@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    What’s really wild is that people put up with this shit.
    For me the straw that broke the camel’s back was finding out that system32 is owned by the installer user and I’d have to jump through a bunch of hoops to make any changes there.
    And here people are like: “Sure, show me ads in the OS I bought.” While the apologists go: “You can disable those in the registry.”
    I SHOULDN’T HAVE TO!

    The moment I have to wrestle the OS for control over my computer it ceases to be useful and becomes a burden.

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      4 hours ago

      The worst is the stranglehold windows has in the professional world. Shit I’m not even an office worker and I have to deal with ads and now AI just working in the shop and using a PC for Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.

      Adobe has been getting really bad too. I shouldn’t have to close like 4 different banners, popups, involuntary AI “summary” suggestions every time I open a PDF. The literal only thing I open on adobe is electrical schematics and using acrobat to document changes, etc. I doubt it could summarize drawings exported from AutoCAD and even if it could, why would I even want that? I need to test panels, not have something tell me “this is a schematic”