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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Paying Microsoft is like paying a ransomware scammer

No amount will ever be enough to satiate their depraved lust for money

[–] Candybar121 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft threatened me with $140 to reactivate windows because I changed my motherboard, and since this is my 2nd time doing so without reinstalling windows, I can no longer do so for free. I just typed 2 lines into powershell and then it became activated.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At risk of sounding like an insufferable individual, I've completely had my fill of Microsoft. I'll have to still use it at work, but I'm transitioning everything into Linux.

What finally made me make this decision is when I read about Microsoft's vision to make the Windows OS completely cloud-based.

I've also had to fight with Windows 10 so much just not to be redirected into Edge, show me unwanted promotions, or, worst of all, restart my machine without my deliberate consent and in spite of making registry edits (If I leave my computer on overnight, there's a reason, I don't care if it's "inactive hours" or whatever they want to call it.)

Whatever I miss out on by using Linux just isn't worth the hassle anymore.

[–] AndrewZabar 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have roughly 30 computers and I’ve migrated all but one over to Linux. Never been happier!

Also I’m able to run 10 year old hardware and thoroughly spank brand new stuff that’s got Windoze11.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It’s it’s a feature not a bug.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I juuuuust pyr8ed the latest MSO, it went mega smoothly (and had a rad 90s style warez crack tool with music and scrolling graphics)

Works perfectly and no data pop ups like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best way to obtain Microsoft's products imo

I'm so fed up with their BS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Your name IMMEDIATELY played in my head.

Also agreed. It took zero time or effort and had dope-ass chiptune. Bless pirates.

[–] jcit878 3 points 1 year ago

command prompt activation FTW

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Shit like this is why I switched to OpenOffice and then LibreOffice all those years ago. LibreOffice is just as good for my personal purposes and I'm never going back to MS Office. Unless your work specifically requires something only Microsoft's product can do, I highly recommend LibreOffice, I use it every single day.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I switched to OpenOffice, and hated it. But it was free, so i used it. Then tried Libre, it was better... But it will was not Microsoft office. Then years later i had to use Microsoft office for work (it was Alli was allowed to install on the work computers) and realized how much i enjoyed using Libre over Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

and if the work required it, THEY should pay for it

[–] vikingtons 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

are you able to get your work done on other suites like LibreOffice / OnlyOffice, or does it require MS specific functionality?

[–] xpinchx 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't speak for everyone but I rely heavily on VBA scripts, dozens of macros, PowerQuery for ETL, connection to azure SQL data, etc. If you work with big data excel is basically a must.

[–] vikingtons 4 points 1 year ago

That's fair enough

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Given that OP posted a Mac screenshot, Pages and Numbers would likely work just as well for the files themselves.

[–] vikingtons 3 points 1 year ago

Hadn't noticed! Keen eye!

Design convergence across platforms has me fooled 😅

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately thats what you paid for. These are 2023 legal scams.

[–] drphungky 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I literally just cancelled my McAfee subscription because of annoying constant pop-ups like this. At least this one from Microsoft is a legal notice. McAfee constantly spams you to turn on unnecessary features, and even changes settings periodically to turn things on like "browser monitoring". Literally worse than old school pop-up viruses.

More importantly, it also never caught a single thing. Windows Defender does fine. My buddy in cyber security suggested them for safety despite how bad they are, but I can honestly recommend you should never, ever, get it. Just keep backups and be prepared to nuke your system if needed, and save yourself a pop-up every other day.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s wild to me that anyone uses Norton or McAfee anymore.

[–] HelloHotel 3 points 1 year ago

Only if ~~that person was~~ the persons pc's OEM was paid big bucks.

[–] Buddahriffic 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does your buddy in cybersecurity solve most of his problems by reinstalling Adobe Acrobat and restarting, and if that doesn't work, muttering about hackers and walking away? Because John McAfee himself didn't recommend using what the software bearing his name became and was more likely to put a bullet through his PC than install that shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, but isn't he also more likely to put a bullet through another human being than anything?

[–] Buddahriffic 3 points 1 year ago

Present tense? No, he's dead.

While he was living, I don't think his bullets were most likely to go through another human, but I do believe he was living on a boat because he had to flee Belize (I think?) because we was wanted for murder and couldn't return to the US because he was wanted for various things there, too (probably including that murder because it was an American).

His advice is only relevant here because his name is on the software, not because he was a good role model. Fascinating guy, but not one to look up to.

[–] AndrewZabar 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who the heck still uses McAfee! Wow.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lol, I would like to have words with your friend in cybersecurity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just one

no

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Your buddy must be very bad at his job

[–] AndrewZabar 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like some people I’ve encountered who really don’t know shit, and have just survived on the ignorance and impressionability of others they con into paying/employing them. Then they just Google every problem they’re tasked with fixing.

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[–] justlookingfordragon 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently made the mistake of installing Avast, and it does the same annoying garbage. The actual settings are buried under a metric shit ton of "Did you know that...?" pop-ups that appear every single time no matter how often you select "do not show me this again", and it constantly urges you to buy the "premium" version for extra features that are literally useless to me.

And it was a pain to uninstall as well. Some files survived the official Avast uninstall AND separate uninstall from the Task Manager, and messed with the Windows Defender, which was unable to recieve updates for a while until I found and nuked the hidden residue of Avast.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Payed to get your data leached.

[–] TurboDiesel 16 points 1 year ago

If that's reoccurring it's because your activation went pear-shaped. Sign out of your O365 account and back in

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'll never forgive Microsoft for LOCKING me out of my own computer, during a recent update. I was FURIOUS. Something to do with Bitlocker or some bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it happened to me, the computer had a firmware (BIOS) update and it reset the TPM holding the decryption key was wiped.

But anyway you had a backup of the decryption key, right? Right?

(The reason microsoft insists so much on having everyone login with microsoft accounts is that bitlocker encryption keys are uploaded in the cloud so you if you follow the link on the boot error message, you can unlock your drive)

(a "side effect" of this automatic encryption key upload on the cloud is that your drive is not encrypted for law enforcement)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is there a way to sign in with Microsoft account and not upload your key to the cloud?

This also makes me wonder if Android does the same thing with its device encryption, since you must login with a Google account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I think so, like it ask you where you can to store the key and if you want to upload a copy or something like that it has been a while since I did setup the encryption.

That said OMG there should be a nicer way to introduce the damn key on boot... with a USB or something I had to type it so many times when I was fixing a booting issue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On Windows 11 when you sign in with a Microsoft account and the device fully supports bitlocker, it starts encrypting the drive without any user consent or acknowledgement. It did so on my laptop

Only with a local account you're prompted to save a backup somewhere else, and it's picky, doesn't let you save it on the drive that's going to be encrypted

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