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Suburban Senshi Entry #2587 - “Sic Transit Windows”

#2587 “Sic Transit Windows”

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LINE chat excerpt starts - 14 October 2025 7:50AM

FireFly_9 7:51 AM

Hmm Windows Copilot can now access the system settings to help you make changes to the PC

@[ DR. XADiUM ] 7:51 AM

Can I tell it to uninstall itself

@Paisley Pythia Peinforte 9:19 AM

Careful, apparently "being racist against AI" is a thing the techbros are trying now

@[ DR. XADiUM ] 9:20 AM

Then everyone who's ever sworn at autocomplete needs to turn themselves in

Well with Windows 10 (the last good version, IMO - 11 works but has too much bulls[BLEEP]t pushed into it by M$, who has once again earned the perjorative $ in their name), I made this wallpaper to mark its passing, and the end of my love for Microsoft in general:

@SpeedRcrX 4:00 PM

So you're seriously gonna do the Linux thing

@[ DR. XADiUM ] 4:04 PM

Yup.

@SpeedRcrX 12:35 AM

Aren't you the guy who said you never would because your time had value to you or something like that

@[ DR. XADiUM ] 12:36 AM

I did! But it's so easy to set up now, it's not like it was 20 years ago

It used to be you were spending more time getting your stuff to work than working on your stuff. But that's all changed now.

// J_Daito // 12:38 AM

Are you going to be like the neckbeards who look down on non-Linux users

@SpeedRcrX 12:38 AM

Oh god those guys they're like the vegans of the computer world

golD_lux 12:39 AM

Hey as a Vegan I'm offended!

// J_Daito // 12:39 AM

That's exactly how all of them are. Offended. All the time.

@[ DR. XADiUM ] 12:39 AM

No, I won't :P I really liked Microsoft up until this crap.

GERMATOID 12:40 AM

BUT SEE THIS IS WHAT WE PENGUINHEADS HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG

THAT THE FOR-PROFIT BIAS OF ACTORS LIKE APPLE AND MICROSOFT WILL INEVITABLY MAKE THEM USER HOSTILE. AND HERE WE ARE! MUAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!

@Paisley Pythia Peinforte 12:44 AM

Someone likened the whole "Microsoft really wants you to use the Microsoft Account" to "Microsoft really wanting to get in your pants" and I can't unthink it because it's so true. They want to track everything you do and have their paws all over your data. I heard they even delete stuff from OneDrive if they think it's objectionable.

@[ DR. XADiUM ] 12:44 AM

I *think* that's just for data you share publicly.

@Paisley Pythia Peinforte 12:46 AM

Here in the terms - Aside from the genuinely illegal and rotten stuff there is prohibited "sexually inappropriate – content that depicts gratuitous sexual acts" - So there's a lot of R-18 fiction out.

Mdm_Maestro 12:47 AM

Shouldn't they have a right to control what's stored on their server?

@Paisley Pythia Peinforte 12:47 AM

And If I'm paying for the storage? Why can't the liability shift to me, the author? Isn't that what "Safe harbour" laws are supposed to be?

And who defines what "gratuitous" is? That seems subjective.

FireFly_9 12:50 AM

This conversation's going into weird places.

@Paisley Pythia Peinforte 12:51 AM

Is it weird, though? We're at a stage of society where who gets to control what you see and do online, and what's considered "good" or "bad is going to be super important.

And the whole Linux vs. Windows thing is sort of a front on that war if you think about it. Who gets to tell you how to use your computer?

Are you in charge, or Microsoft? Microsoft decides to literally lock your keyboard until you click okay to apply their mandatory update, is that cool?

They say it's for "security" but they could force any change they like and you'd have no say in it.

@[ DR. XADiUM ] 12:54 AM

Yeah that was the last straw. If I hadn't had backup computers I wouldn't have been able to work for like half a day when it forced the s[BLEEP]tty broken update that did not even work and I had to roll back, which it then kept insisting on because it was a "feature" update.

// J_Daito // 12:55 AM

Just buy a new computer then like a good little consumer :P That's wht all the Windows 10 people have to do hahahahaha