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Very unlikely. That's what we all thought in 2020.

But that's not what happened.

And why would they? What's in it for them, in their eyes?

You've hit the nail on the head.

Who's opinion matters more to Microsoft? Businesses, Governments and Enterprises. If they lose that audience, they're up shit's creek.

They don't care if even 100,000 disgruntled Windows users collectively gripe about where Windows has gone in direction. Because Microsoft's main concern is no longer appeasing the casual and power users. If you're a business partner or a corporate body, you have their attention more.

Microsoft just knows that a large majority of users will still be there, using their OSes regardless of how much of a dumping they all take. Whether it's 11, 10, 7 or even WinXP, they've got a majority in their ecosystem. And those users are terrified of change.

Hell, I used to have been that Windows user who was scared of change and intimidated by Linux. The issue is that, you just need to dip first, not dive head first all the way. Mac is just simply an extension of Linux. Android as mentioned is an extension of Linux. Windows is it's own entity surrounded by different Linux versions and forms.

Because the whole third-party fiasco was treated as just the 'cool thing' to do. This is Reddit we're talking about here, the kind of site that sits, thousands to a few million users who all think they're one and two steps ahead of everyone else. The kind who think they know everything inside and out, 4-D chess .etc

So of course they'd be the kind to take something of a situation as to what happened when third-party development got gutted out and treat that as just a trend.

If that incident and the fact that Reddit now is an IPO hadn't changed enough minds, nothing will. They love the attention and any attention they get as well as the karma-farming validation whenever they complain about how "reddit sucks".

No, it's all for show. They're whores.

Because it feels like the triggers are finally being fired from the corporate capitalists in the world. They've bided their time and when they feel things are tender enough to practice their most devious schemes, then they'll fire upon it.

They do this whenever there is a generational shift, in culture and how we do things. They're always carrying their ideas over and applying them in even more devious ways.

While we all like to laugh at, joke about and make memes of these things. It stops being a joke when you become personally inflicted by it.

And that's how it's been for every company in any industry.

Fucking. Shareholders.

And this was exactly how they had it designed.

We all thought we were free from the burden of cable television.

But we should've known that while Netflix was doing it's song and dance having been the cheapest subscription for years, everything was gearing up to be exactly like cable television.

I would enjoy PlutoTV and Tubi while you can, if I were you if you're not already. You never know when they'll start having to unroll tier systems or just drop out completely.

Not trying to defend Win11 too much here. But the system requirements aren't bad until you see how much storage it needs and how much it needs for all of the unnecessary fancy junk they put in to have the "best Windows experience" like Windows Hello.

Microsoft initially wanted to get rid of Control Panel entirely, which would stick us to the bare set of options we've been seeing degrade since Windows 8.

This is the kind of thing people don't get with others when they say that they haven't watched a particular movie or played a particular game. Why bother when there's quite a hefty amount of information out there to learn of them and judge based on that?

People love to trick others into these things by saying "You can't judge a book by it's cover!".

Yes, yes you can actually. You just want people to waste time and money to validate their suspicions that whatever it is, will not be to their liking.

I'm not worried. I'm just utterly disappointed in the younger generation. Not in the whole typical way you'd expect older generations to be towards the younger ones.

It's more along the sense of "put down your fucking memes and jokes for abit and realize the reality that's around you" deal. Because we're now seeing the Onion practiced in our daily lives, we can't make the shit up that is actively happening in real time. And it doesn't affect just me, it affects you too.

We can't be putting off this shit forever and sit there going "aww, I just hope it gets better" naturally.

Because let's put it this way, say you don't vote this general election and Biden wins. Okay, cool, we've dodged Trump. But know that in the next 4 years, Biden is not eligible to be re-elected so good on you to no longer see him on the ballot, but you'll never know who could be next after him and there isn't a lot of strong favorability for his VP either. Trump for all we know, is likely going to run until he dies, so he's going to be trying again and again so long as he's living and so long as his voter base is there to back him.

But even when he dies, god knows what the Republicans will try propping up. We've got a bit of a glimpse of that when known fascists like DeSantis tried running for presidency. The only reason him and other candidates has lost is because they can't touch Trump. But when Trump does die, you know they'll be back again.

My point is we need to keep Republican interests the fuck away. They're nothing but destruction. How much evidence do you need before you see that? It's all fun and games to you with your jokes and memes until you're on the internet bitching and griping for why you think shit hits the fan or why you're struggling to make a living.

Reddit got more shitty, but as expected from Reddit users, they all made a big deal about it for a month but still continued to be users. With how stupid easy it is to make an account on there, I'm sure most just pretended to delete their accounts and just made more as an excuse to 'start anew'.

Like wow, bravo, what revolution, guys. You sure showed Spez. /s

I guess on one hand, I kind of get it. We're all going to get to a point in our lives where we're so old that we can't care about every little thing before we get there. Then before we're going to die from age or whatever, some would realize how wasted of a time their lives have been when they've spent getting angry about every little thing to do something about it.

So it's probably why so many people just come to accept things as is. They're going to die anyways so mind as well enjoy what's here if possible before we get there.

However, on the other hand, you know it isn't as bad to try to be some change to the world for a better future so that nobody would have to deal with the same shit one has dealt with. And maybe if people were a little more resourceful and took cues from people who have thought better with wisdom, they'd realize that being overly angry isn't the solution. Don't be angry, get crafty.

I'd like to think that this is the kind of mindset most may have.

Same, out of curiosity, I checked my system for that and got the message.

Even if I didn't, I'm not going to sit around all day as 64GB of "required" stora- oh I mean bloatware to install on my system.

Windows used to function fine with 2GB of storage. It does NOT need 64GB and Microsoft can get fucked.

I'd like to not be reminded that this cunt exists and got breezed into Congress. We know anything she does and says is blunt catering to the psychos in the country.

At a cost. But mind as well pirate since Microsoft is so eager to shove people to Windows 11.

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Some Republican members of Congress have called the program "wasteful" and complained that most people using the discounts had broadband access before the subsidy was available. Rosenworcel's letter today said the FCC survey found that "68 percent of ACP households stated they had inconsistent or zero connectivity prior to ACP."

But what isn't wasteful to them, is throwing billions to ISP lobbyists who continue to make empty promises of expanding broadband, while spending that money heavily marketing services that aren't even available yet in people's areas nor probably will ever be.

We see this everytime a new Windows comes around.

You'll have your hopeless Windows users who're equally as bad as Apple cultists. Screaming at you to upgrade because "THE SECURITY! THINK OF THE SECURITY! YOUR SYSTEM WILL FUCKING DIE IF YOU DON'T GET YOURSELF SECURED!1!1" when all you fucking do is just check e-mail, oh my god. /s

But the fight to resist upgrading has gotten longer and will get longer. Going by the Windows OS global stats of it's marketshare, 3% are still clinging to Win7. 23% hopped to Win11. 70% is still Windows 10.

By the time Windows 10 loses it's extended support (that isn't the Enterprise edition), we're going to see the changes then.

That's why I scope out for old laptops from time to time. It's pointless to hope for it to run today's Windows OSes. But to write it off as completely useless is stupid when you can throw any desired Linux distro on it.

Though I have noticed that Ubuntu does get harder to run on old laptops.

It's been a gradual process and I do say that it started with Windows XP. People look at Windows XP with loads of nostalgia, but they conveniently forget how aggravatingly annoying it was with how often it kept prompting you about what you're about to run. Like with the greyed out screens, asking whether you're administrator and all that. It started with Windows XP.

And it has gotten worse since to where now this system you've paid $900 for that happen to have Windows pre-installed or maybe you bought that separately for another $200, so this $1,100 system you have. You can't control it all.

Oh no, that's not all actually.

That version doesn't even have the Windows Store, which is a huge bloat of it's own. Oh and it doesn't even stop there, apparently Microsoft treats even their Pro-users like trash nowadays, that you have full control of what you do on the Win10 2021 LTSC/LoT as opposed to the Pro version and it costs more.