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tinfamous12 on 21 August 2016

people still use webcams?



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thismeintiel on 21 August 2016
FIT_Gamer said:
The NSA won't be happy about this.

Eh, they'll be fine. I'm sure they get to look at all that data MS collects. Heck, they may even be part of that 3rd party SW you can no longer deny.



 

pokoko on 21 August 2016
vivster said:
pokoko said:

There are plenty of well-documented issues with W10, many of which are there by Microsoft design.  People shouldn't call those into question?  I'll never understand or support that logic.  The day people don't complain about fucked up things is the day consumers get steamrolled.

As for people switching to W10 eventually, well, yeah.  Many applications won't work, or work well, with anything else.  That's why Windows is considered a monopoloy.  It's not hypocrisy if you have very little real-world choice.

As for the Anniversary Update, it's causing an entire host of problems.  The fact that people have no choice but to take the update anyway is well worth complaining about.

You need to read further to get my point apparently.

Also you have always a choice. Most choices come with less comfort but if you're ready to give up your convictions for comfort they can't really be that strong.

I understood your point, it's just that you surrounded it with made-up statistics and rhetoric.  As for "strong convictions", we're not talking about blood diamonds or Smookum A'lu's slave markets.  We're talking about people complaining because some aspect of the operating system they use are getting worse instead of better.  Consumers are supposed to complain when that happens.

Barozi said:
pokoko said:

There are plenty of well-documented issues with W10, many of which are there by Microsoft design.  People shouldn't call those into question?  I'll never understand or support that logic.  The day people don't complain about fucked up things is the day consumers get steamrolled.

As for people switching to W10 eventually, well, yeah.  Many applications won't work, or work well, with anything else.  That's why Windows is considered a monopoloy.  It's not hypocrisy if you have very little real-world choice.

As for the Anniversary Update, it's causing an entire host of problems.  The fact that people have no choice but to take the update anyway is well worth complaining about.

Funny because that isn't even true.

Windows downloaded that update weeks ago on my laptop, but unless I accidentally press "Update and shut down" or "Update and restart" it's not gonna install itself.

You do know that you can't postpone it forever, right?  Even if you have Pro or Enterprise, it will install eventually?

Even if that weren't true, never shutting down/restarting and cutting off all security updates is a terrible solution.



sethnintendo on 21 August 2016
thismeintiel said:
FIT_Gamer said:
The NSA won't be happy about this.

Eh, they'll be fine. I'm sure they get to look at all that data MS collects. Heck, they may even be part of that 3rd party SW you can no longer deny.

AT&T is potentially worse now.  They put some fiber lines into my neighborhood and are now offering 1 GBPS.  Catch?  They want 99.99 but if you agree to share website info (what sites, how long staying on sites, etc) for targeted ads from AT&T you get the 69.99 price.  Funny thing is that when you try to order it online you can only select the 69.99 option which has the disclaimer about targeted ads.  I use ad block but there is no way in hell I want to share my browsing info with AT&T.  I couldn't find a link on the site for even going the 99.99 route.  I guess I'm sticking with Time Warner (which is becoming Spectrum soon I believe).