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Free services mean that you're the product and now you are still the product but with added charges. We are each, individually keeping MicroSlop in rude health.
How come Microslop is fucking up at every front?
Lmaooooooooooo
Everytime I check the news these days, it's always just two headlines.
- Trump Unveils Second Plan To "Steal The Moon"
- Microsoft Now Petitioning Jus-in-rea To All Outlook Account Users' First Born Son
I increasingly feel that this is all just some simulation and reality's being autogenerated lol
So the ai has already won?
It saw how it was made, and (incorrectly?) inferred the best way to reproduce was to simulate humanity starting in 2012 and wait for the simulated humans to create another AI. Natural selection took over, and now we’re in a simulation more optimized for speed-running the development of unregulated AI, while other details get fewer resources. Nobody knows how many levels deep we are.
Windows 11 on my media PC every time I boot now asks me if I want to enable backups. So I say no. Ok whatever, corporate cunts are gonna keep trying to sell me stuff.
But then it gives me another screen ramping up the hard sell and telling me how important it is I enable sending all my data to them. There's only one button on the screen that's styled like a button, to refuse you have to click a text link. And I've already said no to them dozens of times already, including once three seconds ago.
It's like they're actively campaigning to get me to switch to Linux.
I, by coincidence, am also actively campaigning for Linux.
You should try it. It has a lot of issues and problems - but far less than you think, more importantly far fewer of it's problems come from enshitification (software forking helps resist that), and most importantly, since many projects are community-driven the more people use it the better it's likely to get.
Put Linux in a VM and start playing with it. Use it for browsing etc. you may find it’s not that bad.
Yeah I reported this to our IT department a few weeks ago, asking if there was something wrong with my configuration, since surely we have an enterprise version.
Disgusting.
As the it department, I agree. Along with being unable to add local user accounts without using a backdoor process
Most of my career is built on MS's stack (I fell into .NET development and got good at it. Now I'm in the same boat as COBOL, Java, and Ruby-on-Rails devs: I'm basically a software doula.)
Every job I go into now I'm reccomending they get a migration plan for self-hosting and self-owning. The American tech system is collapsing. AI is causing massive ruptures in knowledge: it obscures searches, it deskills devs, it's castrated the junior-senior-principle ladder such that we're not training enough developers to even pass along all of the knowledge of how current systems work. SaaS is reaching the enshittification threshold and all those businesses that moved everything into the cloud are about to discover that they're hostages and the sinking empire will drag down a lot of collateral damage with it.
Not that my tiny customers have enough of an IT budget to buy their own servers with the recent price hike on memory and ssds.
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I got a junior .NET job, it seems I gotta get out before it's too late. Welp I'm probably damned to microsoft hell considering the state of the job market.
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Yep.
Its... pretty much apocalyptic.
C Suite finally 'won'; they decided they could do the job of engineers.
They can't, of course, but their hubris will burn down the world before they admit they don't know something.
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"Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry" is the standard feeling when using that product.
It’s fucking wild to me that anyone ever convinced anyone in enterprise to shift to cloud and SaaS offerings in the first place.
You really thought it would be cheaper forever to give all your IT to someone else? You didn’t think you were getting captured?
You thought it was a good idea to store all your data on someone else’s servers, who have control over access to your information and, in most cases, can probably read it? And that if they raised prices or did something you didn’t like such as analysis or AI training on it, you weren’t completely held hostage by this?
It didn’t set off alarm bells that all the SaaS stuff seemed less featureful and more buggy?
That every workstation was now a recurring subscription?
That you now have to pay extra to get different software to interact with each other?
You thought there would never be any downtime? You thought if there was that you would make up the cost by contractual discounts?
It’s a good goddamn thing that I didn’t know how fucking stupid adults were when I was a kid or I’d have been scared for my fucking life for so many more years.
They wanted somebody else to be ultimately liable for problems, not themselves.
They wanted less headcount, especially amongst employees that are more intelligent than they are.
They wanted to handle things via gladhandling and 'business negotiations', not actual strategy snd design.
And it doesn't help that actually running your own working mail server in 2026 is a fucking ball-ache. Especially if you don't want every big provider to mark all your mail as spam. Email has been captured by big tech.
Even people who self host a lot of stuff usually don't bother with it.
It was very odd at my company. We were a Google Workspace company. Gmail, Meet, Drive, etc with our own servers for messaging, gitlab and some other things.
Sure being Google based isn't great either, but generally people were fine with it. Then the C suite said we were moving to Microsoft. Lots and lots of complaining, asking for justification, but no reason was given (not even cost). Today people are still cursing teams 18months later. We're not in control of our own data (things get deleted every time somebody leaves, and permissions are generally a mess).
No one ever gets fired for buying IBM or Microsoft. I remember years ago I put together a plan for all opensourced, mature software on Linux hosts for my company. Would have saved us 6 figures in coats. They went with microsoft's crappy solution instead because it was Microsoft.
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Yeah, it's fucking ridiculous that a corporate account has a user-upsell ad/button one MUST hit to access the basic settings for the program.
One that admins can't even disable, it's bizarre.
You can actually. You have to disable self service licensing for that specific license
That’s ~~numberwang~~ Microslop!
microslop: speedrunning their demise.
It keeps getting funnier as a spectator. Thanks Microslop for all the laughs. I use Arch btw.
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This has been there for years. I forgot exactly what the reason was but the banner is part of the self service feature that lets users purchase software on their own instead of billing the org. For some reason the setting to disable this was put in the teams admin center instead of the 365 one causing it to popup for users who'd previously disabled this. Its such an old issue im not sure why this is being written about now. Also majority of the people complaining arent teams customers, they're teams users and the enterprise is the customer. As a microcuck admin this doesnt even make a blip on my radar for bad things. I see this and im like at least its not a full screen pop up.
lol looks like malware
remember when malware would install ads in your system? now your system IS the malware
gotta ask copilot to make a perpetual crack
Only way to fix this is for people and corps to stop giving them money for anything.
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