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Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by 000ooo000 »

AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #69
dragonwriter wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we’ve all just kinda decided “we’ve all” kind of masks the way those who benefit the most from that decision are disproportionately influential it making it, both initially and on an ongoing basis,

Sure, but I mean, spend some time around HN and you'll find plenty of people defending hypercapitalism as obviously the best way for things to be. Hell, not long ago I had someone challenge me on whether or not exploiting people for profit, in particular in health care, was wrong or not.

HN likes to blow wind up their own arse about the quality of discourse here but it's just Reddit without the memes/jokes.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by vxNsr »

capableweb wrote: post #8

Great, I just updated to Windows 11 in hope of getting WSL2 + Arch Linux + CUDA + Docker but it didn't pan out in the end, had to move back to proper Linux for that piece of work. But seems I'm stuck with Windows 11 now and additionally, the running applications that show up in the taskbar suddenly can only show icons, no text allowed. I started to regret my decision to upgrade, and this just adds insult to injury.

You can roll back within 10 days of upgrade.

My work pc was nagging me to upgrade so I did, after about 20 minutes I realized the productivity loss wasn’t worth whatever supposed benefits IT would see from having everyone on one OS so I rolled back. And thankfully bec it’s not domain joined, just MDMd I can pause updates and block windows11 from ever coming down.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by LBJsPNS »

soupfordummies wrote: post #110
omoikane wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Related: https://xkcd.com/1305/

Is that a real thing though? One of the more intriguing xkcds I've seen.

If there were such a place - a sanctuary of sanity in the midst of the madness and chaos that is the current internet...

...do you think anyone who knew anything about it would breathe a word of its existence?

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by layer8 »

howard941 wrote: post #41
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #3

Every couple of weeks Windows shows a FULL SCREEN advertisement during boot/login which requires several clicks to get rid of. They advertise everything starting from Microsoft Accounts, OneDrive, MS Edge ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-n... ) , Windows 11 ( https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/167013949... ) , and a long etc. This is not a small advert in a small corner of…

This also happens to a machine that's left on overnight. Something Happens and it reboots - I lose my RDP connection - to this awful dialog.

Reboot Blocker solves this.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by Arnavion »

phone8675309 wrote: post #2

Don't they already do this with some games and services in Windows 10? Is this just a supercharged version of what happens in Windows 10? Definitely guarantees that the fTPM stays off on all of my machines so they can't be force upgraded.

Heh, I wish I could enable the fTPM in my motherboard so I could use it as a regular TPM under Linux, but Asrock fucked up the ACPI tables something fierce so Linux can't use it.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by layer8 »

the8472 wrote: post #113
twawaaay wrote: post #53

It is death of an operating system. Before our eyes. Microsoft is trying desperately to squeeze a bit more cash out of it but the failing culture within Microsoft is unable to recognise they are driving users off their own product. I already got fed up enough that I basically banned Windows at home and I am impatiently waiting to kill one last Windows box. It is our gaming machine that is generally available to entir…

The Windows 10 for business installs at $work seem to be clean. I don't know if that's IT's doing or that's the default. So this could be a classic "if you're not paying for it you're the product" issue

The problem is that Windows Enterprise isn't sold to individual users (and if it did, you'd still have to run a domain controller on Windows Server alongside it). Windows Professional still gets most of the same crappy behavior as Home.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by xattt »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #3

Every couple of weeks Windows shows a FULL SCREEN advertisement during boot/login which requires several clicks to get rid of. They advertise everything starting from Microsoft Accounts, OneDrive, MS Edge ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-n... ) , Windows 11 ( https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/167013949... ) , and a long etc. This is not a small advert in a small corner of…

I had this and I could either summon Task Manager through Ctrl-Shift-Esc or Alt-Tab out of it.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by masswerk »

damnesian wrote: post #83
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #3

Every couple of weeks Windows shows a FULL SCREEN advertisement during boot/login which requires several clicks to get rid of. They advertise everything starting from Microsoft Accounts, OneDrive, MS Edge ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-n... ) , Windows 11 ( https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/167013949... ) , and a long etc. This is not a small advert in a small corner of…

Perhaps require acknowledging an ad to open or save a document? With full OS integration and demonstrated willingness to expose any user to advertising, the possibilities are numerous.

Earn key strokes by ad-clicks…
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