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Paying Microsoft is like paying a ransomware scammer
No amount will ever be enough to satiate their depraved lust for money
Microsoft threatened me with $140 to reactivate windows because I changed my motherboard, and since this is my 2nd time doing so without reinstalling windows, I can no longer do so for free. I just typed 2 lines into powershell and then it became activated.
At risk of sounding like an insufferable individual, I've completely had my fill of Microsoft. I'll have to still use it at work, but I'm transitioning everything into Linux.
What finally made me make this decision is when I read about Microsoft's vision to make the Windows OS completely cloud-based.
I've also had to fight with Windows 10 so much just not to be redirected into Edge, show me unwanted promotions, or, worst of all, restart my machine without my deliberate consent and in spite of making registry edits (If I leave my computer on overnight, there's a reason, I don't care if it's "inactive hours" or whatever they want to call it.)
Whatever I miss out on by using Linux just isn't worth the hassle anymore.
I have roughly 30 computers and I’ve migrated all but one over to Linux. Never been happier!
Also I’m able to run 10 year old hardware and thoroughly spank brand new stuff that’s got Windoze11.
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I juuuuust pyr8ed the latest MSO, it went mega smoothly (and had a rad 90s style warez crack tool with music and scrolling graphics)
Works perfectly and no data pop ups like this.
Best way to obtain Microsoft's products imo
I'm so fed up with their BS
Your name IMMEDIATELY played in my head.
Also agreed. It took zero time or effort and had dope-ass chiptune. Bless pirates.
It’s it’s a feature not a bug.
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Shit like this is why I switched to OpenOffice and then LibreOffice all those years ago. LibreOffice is just as good for my personal purposes and I'm never going back to MS Office. Unless your work specifically requires something only Microsoft's product can do, I highly recommend LibreOffice, I use it every single day.
and if the work required it, THEY should pay for it
are you able to get your work done on other suites like LibreOffice / OnlyOffice, or does it require MS specific functionality?
I can't speak for everyone but I rely heavily on VBA scripts, dozens of macros, PowerQuery for ETL, connection to azure SQL data, etc. If you work with big data excel is basically a must.
That's fair enough
Given that OP posted a Mac screenshot, Pages and Numbers would likely work just as well for the files themselves.
Hadn't noticed! Keen eye!
Design convergence across platforms has me fooled 😅
screenshot, Pages and Numbers would likely work
Terrible app names to be honest
Yeah, but for something that comes free with your Mac, they're not bad.
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Unfortunately thats what you paid for. These are 2023 legal scams.
I literally just cancelled my McAfee subscription because of annoying constant pop-ups like this. At least this one from Microsoft is a legal notice. McAfee constantly spams you to turn on unnecessary features, and even changes settings periodically to turn things on like "browser monitoring". Literally worse than old school pop-up viruses.
More importantly, it also never caught a single thing. Windows Defender does fine. My buddy in cyber security suggested them for safety despite how bad they are, but I can honestly recommend you should never, ever, get it. Just keep backups and be prepared to nuke your system if needed, and save yourself a pop-up every other day.
Does your buddy in cybersecurity solve most of his problems by reinstalling Adobe Acrobat and restarting, and if that doesn't work, muttering about hackers and walking away? Because John McAfee himself didn't recommend using what the software bearing his name became and was more likely to put a bullet through his PC than install that shit.
Okay, but isn't he also more likely to put a bullet through another human being than anything?
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Lol, I would like to have words with your friend in cybersecurity
Just one
no
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Your buddy must be very bad at his job
Sounds like some people I’ve encountered who really don’t know shit, and have just survived on the ignorance and impressionability of others they con into paying/employing them. Then they just Google every problem they’re tasked with fixing.
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I recently made the mistake of installing Avast, and it does the same annoying garbage. The actual settings are buried under a metric shit ton of "Did you know that...?" pop-ups that appear every single time no matter how often you select "do not show me this again", and it constantly urges you to buy the "premium" version for extra features that are literally useless to me.
And it was a pain to uninstall as well. Some files survived the official Avast uninstall AND separate uninstall from the Task Manager, and messed with the Windows Defender, which was unable to recieve updates for a while until I found and nuked the hidden residue of Avast.
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Payed to get your data leached.
If that's reoccurring it's because your activation went pear-shaped. Sign out of your O365 account and back in
Bill Gates thanks you for your donation to his meaningful mission to enrich himself and his shareholders 🙏
Bill Gates? I don't think he is really involved much with Microsoft anymore. He stepped down from the board of directors in 2020.
He stepped down as CEO and all involvement in active development in 2008 even. This has nothing left of Bill Gates, not even strategy-wise.
But wait, he’s supposed to be the evil puppet master
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He's still one of the largest individual shareholder, though.
I'll never forgive Microsoft for LOCKING me out of my own computer, during a recent update. I was FURIOUS. Something to do with Bitlocker or some bullshit.
it happened to me, the computer had a firmware (BIOS) update and it reset the TPM holding the decryption key was wiped.
But anyway you had a backup of the decryption key, right? Right?
(The reason microsoft insists so much on having everyone login with microsoft accounts is that bitlocker encryption keys are uploaded in the cloud so you if you follow the link on the boot error message, you can unlock your drive)
(a "side effect" of this automatic encryption key upload on the cloud is that your drive is not encrypted for law enforcement)
Is there a way to sign in with Microsoft account and not upload your key to the cloud?
This also makes me wonder if Android does the same thing with its device encryption, since you must login with a Google account.
Yeah I think so, like it ask you where you can to store the key and if you want to upload a copy or something like that it has been a while since I did setup the encryption.
That said OMG there should be a nicer way to introduce the damn key on boot... with a USB or something I had to type it so many times when I was fixing a booting issue.
On Windows 11 when you sign in with a Microsoft account and the device fully supports bitlocker, it starts encrypting the drive without any user consent or acknowledgement. It did so on my laptop
Only with a local account you're prompted to save a backup somewhere else, and it's picky, doesn't let you save it on the drive that's going to be encrypted
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That's what bitlocker is supposed to do. It's kind of the whole point of bitlocker.
Bitlocker is supposed to lock out people that should not have access to the data on that PC not lock the owner out.
Yeah but how would it know?
Huh. I do not have a bitlocker account.
Also, the whole point of the TPM (when I looked it up) was to not tell anyone, including Microsoft your decryption key. It's so the user has ten chances to enter a short PIN or password and then it unlocks the device. That way not even Microsoft or the police can unlock the device without a tunnelling electron microscope with which to crack the TPM.
That way, you see, getting into a device is expensive and something law enforcement would not be tempted to do without an ironclad warrant and maybe a national security reason.
That Microsoft can ask TPMs to break their T makes them not T-worthy enough to be called a TPM. More like a Microsoft Obedience Chip.
TPM is meant to enforce DRM, not protect your data. They advertise it as a feature to protect users because it wouldn't be very popular if they outright said that the whole point was so that your computer could process data without giving you access to it.
And now Google wants to use it to remove user control of browsers because users like to block ads.
You don't have to give Microsoft the key (unless you want the "backup" option) but the OS has to have the key locally while it's running in order to be able to read the data on the drive (and also write new data).
In typical usage The TPM holds the key, but it's the OS that generated the key and encrypted the drive in the first place. I don't know the technical details but the TPM recognises the OS install that programmed it and will only automatically unlock and provide the key for that. If you change it by swapping the drive or booting to a different device it remains locked and any alternative OS requires the key to be entered manually.
You deserved that tho. Thinking you are "doing the right thing" by paying Microsoft, you have to be really stupid
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