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Sounds like you took your time, got comfortable, found a distro you liked, and generally did it all the right way. Now watch as with each new headline you see about Windows or MS you become happier and happier with your decision. There's no better advertisement for Linux than the behavior of MS and Windows. 😁
Congrats on dumping Windows. One of us! One of us!
Early 2000s, Microsoft starts putting sketchy telemetry into XP: 🙂
Late 2000s, MS ramps that shit up even more with Vista and 7 while the bloat rises to never before seen levels with the architecture change to 64 bit: 😁
Early 2010s, MS includes actual fucking ads into the OS: 😆
Early 2020s, MS jams AI into it because it's the thing to do and everybody else is doing it after nobody really asked: 🤣
Fuck Microsoft.
Exactly. Plus I was super creeped out by the news that apparently Microsoft tries to decrypt files I have stored encrypted on my one drive and by default sets up my home directory to be on one drive. What the fuck
holy shit, if that's true then I'm so nuking windows off my machines
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-is-scanning-the-inside-of-password-protected-zip-files-for-malware/
wow.
I never even wondered about it until you asked lol. But the answer is pretty interesting.
Origin is this scene from a very old film called Freaks. https://youtu.be/bBXyB7niEc0
https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/24069
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/bBXyB7niEc0
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Same! Apparently it's been referenced in bunches of other things though.