skill issue; i have never seen ads on my windows 11 installs, it's literally a google search and a single download away.

hell i've always had these start menu features on my win11 systems

so you can either complain for worthless feel good nerd cred (IE, about to be this entire fucking thread of people jerking eachother off about who can perform the linux humiliation ritual the most) or actually be a real user and make your system do what you want, the way users have made windows do what they want for decades

I noticed recommended content could be turned off in Win11 long ago. Maybe they are making it easier to do so, but its always been there.

Actually secure.

Because they don't think about what they're saying - it's just an automated, impersonal response with no meaning to them. They're just going through the motions. Which makes it even more rude.

Nope. "You're welcome" is akin to "I'm pleased to be of service." "No problem" is like "I wasn't bothered _too_ much to do what I'm paid to do."

Self reflection would do you wonders. Maybe your food would have less spit in it.

And penalize them when they say "no problem." It's your job, of course it's not a problem.

For what it's worth, I do see Teams asking for OS location, camera, and mic permissions, but not other Office programs.

If it was spent that way what we would have is 30 different OSS solutions as each team would splinter as they argued what is the best approach and what should be standard, each one would be incompatible with every other one and they all would be missing a subset of essential features. While Teams is an ugly beast, what it does well is integrate and provide the basic essentials needed from labelling and meetings, calendar integration, chat, voice, video, team channels and permissions etc etc.

1. AD is just LDAP, rebranded. 2. SMB is horrible. NFS is better, and surprisingly viable for data centres. For home use, SFTP seems to be the way to go. 3. Microsoft didn't invent email. 4. Honestly, I never used SharePoint. And Confluence is something I avoid after having used it. 5. Microsoft didn't invent git, or gitweb. They bought GitHub for obvious reasons, it is very central to the JavaScript ecosystem. But if you really need the SVN workflow for git, there are plenty of alternatives, like GitLab. 6. Something like Chef, Puppet, or Ansible? 7. DRM does not provide any security, it is just a defect. You want Unix permissons, just use Unix permissions. 8. Citrix is a nightmare. You need RDP, there are secure open source solutions. And X11 has network transparency as part of the core protocol. 9. Microsoft didn't invent GPG keyservers, and most mail user agents can do encryption transparently. Outlook being one of the exceptions.

Teams and XBox are the things that are keeping people using their Microsoft accounts. Teams has alternatives, like Jitsi and Matrix, but they are not interoperable with Teams. Microsoft Office is also something people cling to, even though LibreOffice can do the same, better, and without requiring any retraining.

My local walmart has been disrupted by this for months. Not clear why it takes months to install chargers, except probably the electric company drags its feet.

This makes perfect sense: they have plenty of unused parking because people now get stuff delivered or picked for them, so parking dwell time is nil. However, I find it hard to believe that it will bring EV drivers into the store. But maybe.

Many (most?) WalMarts already have Electrify America charging spots. They are simply cutting out the third party.

This could potentially be good since WalMart would now be directly responsible for maintenance of the equipment, and if they are unavailable it reflects poorly on them directly. =Smidge=

The datacenters I've worked in basically had UPS to keep things running till the generators kicked in. I doubt enough UPS power to last all night every night is common, that would require vastly more batteries.