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Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by swiley »

Krssst wrote: post #105
apk-d wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To solve this, they have an upgrade you can get called "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations". Costs a little over $300. Quoting the blog post on windows.com: "You will see for Windows 10 Pro for Workstations productivity and enterprise focused applications in place of consumer applications and games. This was one of the top feedback shared with us by our partners and users and we're delivering this in our next update" La…

Since Windows 7 is going to lose security updates, I have been looking at what to replace it with. My main use case being games (actual work and internet being on Debian). What I found was that Windows Server seems to cut most of the features I do not want in Windows (Cortana, Windows Store and Microsoft accounts, OneDrive...) while still being purchasable on Amazon (although at 3-6 times the price). There are severa…

Oh my god just use wine.

This is getting ridiculous!

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

vbezhenar wrote: post #119
pcr910303 wrote: post #32

A little bit irrelevant to the article: Unpopular opinion but, is opt-outtable telemetry that bad? Of course using tracked behaviors for add targeting is bad (which is why my opinion is irrelevant to the article) but using telemetry to do AB-tests, UX-tests, finding bugs, etc... what’s really bad about it? Every comment about telemetry in HN reads something like ‘Telemetry with opt-out is bad, so GitLab is bad, VSCod…

I, personally, love telemetry and always enable it everywhere. I want developers to know about my habits and consider it when deciding, for example, which features to delete.

I, personally, enable telemetry everywhere it's disabled by default, or even just when I'm asked about it. I turn it off if it's on by default and they don't say exactly what they're collecting.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by worble »

Krssst wrote: post #105
apk-d wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To solve this, they have an upgrade you can get called "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations". Costs a little over $300. Quoting the blog post on windows.com: "You will see for Windows 10 Pro for Workstations productivity and enterprise focused applications in place of consumer applications and games. This was one of the top feedback shared with us by our partners and users and we're delivering this in our next update" La…

Since Windows 7 is going to lose security updates, I have been looking at what to replace it with. My main use case being games (actual work and internet being on Debian). What I found was that Windows Server seems to cut most of the features I do not want in Windows (Cortana, Windows Store and Microsoft accounts, OneDrive...) while still being purchasable on Amazon (although at 3-6 times the price). There are severa…

For some reason I don't ever see people recommending the MSMG Toolkit[0]. With it, you can take a regular Win10 Home or Pro .iso, and completely gut it. Like, completely gut it. It'll stop automatic Windows updates (you can still choose to do them yourself), you can remove all default metro apps, you can completely remove the Windows Store from ever being on your system. Seriously, this thing is an absolute godsend it my opinion. Combine with the Windows 10 Privacy Guide[1] to pick up any slack that it misses.

0: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/msmg_toolkit.html

1: https://github.com/adolfintel/Windows10-Privacy

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by leppr »

pcr910303 wrote: post #32

A little bit irrelevant to the article: Unpopular opinion but, is opt-outtable telemetry that bad? Of course using tracked behaviors for add targeting is bad (which is why my opinion is irrelevant to the article) but using telemetry to do AB-tests, UX-tests, finding bugs, etc... what’s really bad about it? Every comment about telemetry in HN reads something like ‘Telemetry with opt-out is bad, so GitLab is bad, VSCod…

I would be okay with it if it was properly anonymized. I'm talking for instance some peer-to-peer mixing scheme, not just a privacy clause by which they swear they won't use the data to identify the particular users. There are technical solutions to privacy-conscious telemetry, but of course the non-trivial cost of implementation, and perhaps more importantly the loss of valuable data for the company means it's almost never implemented.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by gruez »

apk-d wrote: post #54
frou_dh wrote: post #30

When a clean install of Windows 10 ""Professional"" had prominent ads for Candy Crush in the Start Menu, is when I realized MS had lost their dignity.

To solve this, they have an upgrade you can get called "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations". Costs a little over $300. Quoting the blog post on windows.com: "You will see for Windows 10 Pro for Workstations productivity and enterprise focused applications in place of consumer applications and games. This was one of the top feedback shared with us by our partners and users and we're delivering this in our next update" La…

>To solve this, they have an upgrade you can get called "Windows 10 Pro for Workstations". Costs a little over $300.

At that price point you might as well get the LTSC version instead, which has none of that and has 10 years of security patches without needing to install feature updates.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by gruez »

Nextgrid wrote: post #98
ppfrc wrote: post #87

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Just use LTSC. No Cortana, no Store, no Edge, and obviously no Candy Crush--in fact, no Metro apps to speak which, not even the Calculator (instead you get the one from Windows 7)

How do you get a license for that? As far as I know you can't easily. You need to find a reseller and there's a minimum amount of licenses you need to buy so you can't just buy one. I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this. There's basically zero effort involved in setting up a credit card payment form that gives out product keys, and there'd be at least some demand for it.

>You need to find a reseller and there's a minimum amount of licenses you need to buy so you can't just buy one.

AFAIK you can get around that requirement by buying a bunch of cheap CALs.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by jk3faster »

tuesday20 wrote: post #115
jk3faster wrote: post #8

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> What is the alternative for average consumers ? Chrome books ? GNU/Linux! Any mainstream beginner friendly GNU/Linux distribution like Linux Mint or Ubuntu will be descent enough for average consumers. Unless you are heavily dependent on Adobe softwares(even then, you can consider dual boot), they are now much more elegant than windows. Getting quality support from forums is actually much easier with GNU/Linux. Las…

Can you recommend good laptop that come with Linux installed?

I currently use a ThinkPad, which came pre-installed with Windows. I wiped out windows and installed Linux. Then there are some Dell XPS laptops that comes with Linux installed.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by gruez »

vbezhenar wrote: post #117
Nextgrid wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you get a license for that? As far as I know you can't easily. You need to find a reseller and there's a minimum amount of licenses you need to buy so you can't just buy one. I don't understand why Microsoft is doing this. There's basically zero effort involved in setting up a credit card payment form that gives out product keys, and there'd be at least some demand for it.

Because they know that it'll be incredibly popular and will force them to continue backporting updates. They want to move forward and users want to stay on one place. In the past users managed to keep Microsoft from moving forward. Now they want to force users to move forward. Nobody is happy in both cases, it seems.

>Because they know that it'll be incredibly popular and will force them to continue backporting updates.

I don't get it. How does popularity have anything to do with how much effort is needed to backport updates? Those editions already exist, so they're already committed to supplying updates. Might as well make some extra money by selling it for $300+ retail.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by leppr »

oefrha wrote: post #113
cameronbrown wrote: post #102

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Actually you can do this fairly easily by: 1) Learning nano/vim 2) Understanding what X window manager is and does 3) Understanding how config files work 4) Editing the appropriate config file to change DPI. Be careful not to do something wrong or you'll mess your system up So easy my grandma could do it.

Honestly can’t tell if this is sarcasm. This is probably sarcasm. If it’s not, you’re welcome to actually point out the configuration files I need to edit. I tried many “solutions”, even edited boot parameters to no avail. According to sources I read, someone without an Nvidia graphics card might have an easier time.

    xrandr --output HDMI-1 --scale 0.75x0.75 --mode 4096x2160
Play with the scale numbers and the resolution until you get the desired effect. Can't give a full tutorial here but "xrandr hdpi" should yield helpful search results.

I'm not denying it's a pain and Windows/MacOS are miles ahead, but this is how you can get by on Linux with X. I use it daily for work and media, on a variety of monitors.

Re: Microsoft Advertisement Inc.

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Post by commandersaki »

ohthehugemanate wrote: post #58

What a load of shit. I love the guy trying to infer Microsoft's ad profit centers by trying to read between the lines of marketing copy. Entertaining stuff. But let's not confuse this for grown up analysis. Microsoft releases their financials, like every publicly traded corporation. Bing search ads are a small part of revenu, about 5% of what Azure earns, and stable. Desktop ads are a vanishingly small line item. Mic…

> The only valid part if the article is that it's hard to believe that anyone really wants a voice assistant.

I think voice assistance shines on mobile devices because of clumsy UI.

Here's an elaborate example: When I finish a dentist appointment I negotiate a follow up with the receptionist after paying my bill. I can then dictate to siri to schedule the next appointment rather than clumsily typing it all in.

A more obvious example: hands-free operation when operating a vehicle, e.g. "Siri read me the last message I received (from Alice)".

Unless you're completely inept with your computer there's really no reason to use the voice interface. I think we already learned this lesson otherwise Dragon Dictate would've taken off decades ago.

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