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>[manufacturer] deprived me of a choice in this case This seems to be the industry trend with these remotely managed machines, like Apple or Windows PCs. The u
by npteljes 2y ago
>[manufacturer] deprived me of a choice in this case
This seems to be the industry trend with these remotely managed machines, like Apple or Windows PCs. The update mechanism, for better or worse, takes power from the user and assigns it back to the manufacturer / service provider. It's something that the software world would have considered a Trojan horse some 20 years ago, an extension of control to the end users machine, for someone other than the end user themselves.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this. What's for sure is that the IT zeitgeist really changed over the decades.
- adamc 2y agoMight be good for some "average" user but strikes me as bad for software developers or other folks with particular need for tight control.
- evoke4908 2y agoAt work, we discovered that our product doesn't work with Windows 11 because Microsoft forcibly installed W11 on our demo machine the night prior. If you're curious, it's because the W11 Bluetooth stack is somehow even more broken than W10. Our entirely standard Bluetooth widget can't communicate with W11 PCs and there's really no good way to discover how or why. Bluetooth support is so bad in Windows that I've been assigned to start porting all our software over to Linux. I could go on for hours over this. Windows is so bad.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoThe war on general purpose computing has already been won, over the average consumer. Pray they don’t finish the job. </Vader>