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I can only conclude that Windows is basically malware now... Thank $deity I haven't used any form of Windows for 10+ years anymore.
by sigio 3mo ago
I can only conclude that Windows is basically malware now... Thank $deity I haven't used any form of Windows for 10+ years anymore.
- bcraven 3mo agoThis is one of those typical HN replies that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.
- Geezus_42 3mo agoMuch like your own, and this one!
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- phikappa 3mo agoI wonder if this ritual of meta-self-policing serves some particular purpose or if it's just a case of the brain drawing comfort from going through a familiar ritual. "This comment adds nothing" is like the reverse amen in church of our days.
- pseudalopex 3mo agoThe purpose was to discourage comments which added nothing I thought.
- warshinder 3mo agoAnother example of context collapse. Meta-meta commenting always adds something if only unironically.
- Geezus_42 2mo agoI think it's just people who can't help but tell others how to live their lives.
- stavros 3mo agoThe GP comment adds social pressure so useless comments are less likely to be made.
- exe34 3mo agoIt confirms for me that I too made the right choice and it reminds people that haven't made the jump yet that they have a choice in how their operating system treats them. I'd say it added a lot more than your comment.
- coldtea 3mo agoIt's a discussion, it's not a panel to further scientific inquiry. Sentiments and opinions also further a discussion.
- fooker 3mo agoYou're missing out on 37 different unrelated things being named copilot.
- dansquizsoft 3mo agoCopilot’s T&Cs clearly explain that it is for entertainment purposes only though.
- actionfromafar 3mo agoLike Fox News
- marcosdumay 3mo agoDoes that mean I can complain about anybody that creates an excel spreadsheet at work for violating the T&C?
- robin_reala 3mo ago81, not 37: https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-micros...
- fooker 3mo agoHah this article is from April. I'm sure the number has only gone up.
- bunderbunder 3mo ago“Now”? This is nothing new. For about 30 years now Microsoft has been constantly repeating various flavors of this “make it so a thing can automatically and silently run programs as soon as it touches your computer” thing. It’s always done in the name of user convenience. It always ends up being a fiasco. I don’t know why they keep doing it, it’s not like the exact same PHB keeps making the same decision over and over for 30 years. It’s probably one or a combination of the many well documented flavors of stupid that are deeply baked into the company’s organizational culture. (And before the inevitable response, no this is not defending Microsoft. Pointing out that an organization’s culture is too deeply, chronically stupid to avoid opening the exact same obvious and gaping security hole over and over and over and over again is not the same as saying, “it’s fine, actually.”)
- ryandrake 3mo ago> It’s probably one or a combination of the many well documented flavors of stupid that are deeply baked into the company’s organizational culture. It all comes from the increasingly widely held idea that the user should not be the ultimate authority over what should run on his computer. The OS vendor should have a say. Third party developers should have a say. Device manufacturers should have a say. Anyone except the user, who is just a passenger on his own system. And this mentality is not limited to Microsoft.
- RetroTechie 3mo ago> I can only conclude that Windows is basically malware now... Windows has worked like spyware since what, the late Windows 7 days or thereabout? End users should not regard this as inevitable. Or get caught up in the how-it-works-how-to-disable swamp. Instead, cut through to the essence. It's about respect: # Microsoft does not respect Windows users (or users of any of their offerings?). # LG does not respect people who buy their monitors (and perhaps other products?). Knowing that, why would you use such a sleazy company's product for daily driving? Or give them your money? Would you buy bread from a baker who pisses on your lawn every time you're not looking? User rights or consumer protection laws aren't even part of this equation. Although they do help (sometimes a lot!) to keep companies honest.
- flaunf221 3mo ago> why would you use such a sleazy company's product for daily driving Because alternatives are much worse or not available for scenarios people need. There, I've said the obvious.
- ezst 3mo agoThat may sound obvious to you, but it's not for many, and this opinion of yours is shared by fewer and fewer people.
- tosti 3mo agoIt should be a choice. They were or nearly were convicted for being a monopoly. For most users, they're not even aware there's a hardware/software distiction. MS-Windows GUI has cashed on this unawareness since 95. "My Computer", "The computer needs to restart"... Being deliberately incorrect to add to the existing confusion.
- flaunf221 3mo agoSome things not having viable alternatives on MacOS/Linux/BSD/whatever-else is not an opinion of mine. It's just life.
- MatejKafka 3mo agoHow it it a Windows issue that driver developers pack garbage with their drivers? If Linux supported loading 3rd party drivers (it mostly doesn't, and if Windows did that, the whole internet would be up in arms about Microsoft locking down their OS), it would have exactly the same issues. This is basically the same as downloading a program, running it and when it downloads garbage on your computer, complaining that Windows are dumb for allowing a program to download garbage.
- toast0 3mo ago> How it it a Windows issue that driver developers pack garbage with their drivers? Because windows update automatically installs the garbage when the device is connected. Microsoft could control the content of the software it automatically installs, but they don't. That's the issue.