Re: Microsoft: one step forward, one step back

Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:

On 2024-06-26 09:48, DFS wrote:
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Step forward: the new Surface CoPilot computers are very repairable
 
https://www.tomshardware.com/tablets/microsoft-surface/surface-copilot-pcs-the-most-repairable-ever-ifixit-praises-microsofts-change-in-philosophy
 
 
 
 
Step back: MS removes instructions on switching from MS account to local
account when logging into your PC
 
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-account-to-local-account-conversion-guide-erased-from-official-windows-11-guide-instructions-redacted-earlier-this-week
 
 
There's no excuse whatsoever for making it more difficult to bypass the
use of a MS acct just to log into the OS.  If anything, using a MS
account should be opt-in.

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Even you will have to admit it eventually: Microsoft has no interest in
users having any kind of privacy. Their optional telemetry will
eventually become mandatory, and their optional client-side scanning
will eventually be enabled by default. Using any previous operating
system of theirs which doesn't have these "features" will become impossible.
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Whether you like to admit it or not, you too will use Linux.

Exactly, it used to be a philosophical thing, now it's just an
imperative.  There is no supported Winblows version that's worth crap,
now, 10 is too close to the end of support, it's an utter dead end. 11
has Copilot and is getting worse with every update.  You need Linux to
survive, as a desktop computer user, unless you can take Apple's ass
reaming.

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Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.