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Well, sometimes Microsoft decides to change your settings back. This has happened to me very frequently after installing Windows updates. I remember finding mys

Well, sometimes Microsoft decides to change your settings back. This has happened to me very frequently after installing Windows updates. I remember finding myself turning the same settings off time and again.

netsharc 1y ago
The "fuck you, user!" behavior of software companies now means there's no more "No", only "Maybe later". Every time I update Google Photos, it shows me the screen that "Photos backups are not turned on! Turn on now?" (because they want to upsell their paid storage space option).
- jtmarl1n 1y ago
  The lack of a true “no” option and only “maybe later” infuriates me.
  - ryandrake 1y ago
    Silicon Valley companies are like a creepy guy in the nightclub going up to each woman and asking "Want to dance? [Yes] or [Ask Me Again]". The desperation is pathetic.
- duped 1y ago
  I mean at this point I think it's really just utter incompetence over at Microsoft to design a system that can be updated without breaking it. They have never actually cared about solving that problem. If they had taste, someone opinionated over there would knock heads before shipping another version of windows that requires restarts or mutates user settings.
  - netsharc 1y ago
    A joke in the Windows 95 days was "You plugged in a mouse. Please restart your computer.". A few weeks ago I plugged in a Logitech wireless mouse receiver, Windows 10 installed the drivers automatically, and finished with "To complete the installation of the software, please restart your computer"...
    - account42 1y ago
      It's already absurd that a mouse should need a vendor/model-specific driver in 2025. It's just a standard USB Human Interface Device ffs.
- anonymars 1y ago
  It also now bugs me to do face scanning every so often too And unlike most things, both prompts require you to explicitly click some sort of "no", not just click away to dismiss. The backup one is particularly obnoxious because you have to flip a shitty little slider as the only button is "continue". Fuck. Off.

netsharc 1y ago

The "fuck you, user!" behavior of software companies now means there's no more "No", only "Maybe later". Every time I update Google Photos, it shows me the screen that "Photos backups are not turned on! Turn on now?" (because they want to upsell their paid storage space option).

jtmarl1n 1y ago
The lack of a true “no” option and only “maybe later” infuriates me.
- ryandrake 1y ago
  Silicon Valley companies are like a creepy guy in the nightclub going up to each woman and asking "Want to dance? [Yes] or [Ask Me Again]". The desperation is pathetic.
duped 1y ago
I mean at this point I think it's really just utter incompetence over at Microsoft to design a system that can be updated without breaking it. They have never actually cared about solving that problem. If they had taste, someone opinionated over there would knock heads before shipping another version of windows that requires restarts or mutates user settings.
- netsharc 1y ago
  A joke in the Windows 95 days was "You plugged in a mouse. Please restart your computer.". A few weeks ago I plugged in a Logitech wireless mouse receiver, Windows 10 installed the drivers automatically, and finished with "To complete the installation of the software, please restart your computer"...
  - account42 1y ago
    It's already absurd that a mouse should need a vendor/model-specific driver in 2025. It's just a standard USB Human Interface Device ffs.
anonymars 1y ago
It also now bugs me to do face scanning every so often too And unlike most things, both prompts require you to explicitly click some sort of "no", not just click away to dismiss. The backup one is particularly obnoxious because you have to flip a shitty little slider as the only button is "continue". Fuck. Off.