YouTube shorts are my latest annoyance. They give you an x to hide it then says we'll try again in 30 days. Shorts were a dumb idea on vine, a dumber idea on tiktok, and just about the dumbest idea on YouTube. If I wanted a sub-30 second clip I'd watch a gif.

The other annoying thing they (esp. MS) do is pop up messages like "The whole process of saving files has changed while you were asleep [learn more][got it]" and here, when you need it, there's never an option for "remind me later". So you either have to stop what you're doing and go and read a massive blog entry that's not actually relevant to the task in hand or you need to dismiss the message and never be able to find it when it's actually relevant

Linux/FreeBSD and piracy are like the only way to mostly avoid this crap now lol.

Every shopping site now wants you to sign up for some kind of discount or offer as well.

Instead of "No thanks" or "No, I don't want to subscribe", the reject button always says "No, I want to pay full price" or "No, I don't like savings" and other manipulative bs.

Makes me not want to shop there.

This whole rapey lingo needs to fucking die already.

Maybe widely name-calling this practice for what it is could help steer companies away from this disgusting pattern.

Should we start refering to pop-ups that give no option to say "no" as something like "rape-ups"?

I've also felt the "impossible to say no" lingo is awful. "remind me later" fuck off

We need a community! I am really annoyed by this, it is rapey and gaslighting and abusive. Another one they started to do is "You are almost finished with your updates", updates that i didn't request nor allow.

We need words, customized pitchforks and a leader to recover dignity!

Yes! It really is that. Just like how so many men are taught to never take "no" as an answer from a woman, and to keep pestering her until she gives in.

"It's important we give our users a choice."

The floggings will continue until morale improves.

Literal malware techniques. MS learned well from all the viruses that infected Windows in the 2000s

They should rename "remind me later" to "nag me later".

If anything, I'm even further disincentivised to log in if they're threatening to remotely copy my hard drive. That just sounds like a scam.

Pro Tip: You can create a local only account on a New PC as long as you skip connecting to wifi during setup.

I guess "no" implies "this is your only chance to permanently decide".
"Remind me later" is obviously going to be an annoying reminder.
"Maybe later" or "Not now" indicates it can be changed later, but might also come with annoying reminders.

It's like an annoying kiosk salesman at the mall but he'll show up in your livingroom when you least expect it.

This is what life is like for women. So many men are taught to not take "no" for an answer, and just keep pressuring her, waiting for her to wear down and give in.

And the tech world will often force you to use a macbook, as well. As if Windows wasn't locked down enough.

Yeah but it pesters your sysadmin in your stead

Yeah this seems like a complete non-issue... All software has its problems and annoyances. Whether it's Linux, MacOS or Windows they all have different levels of shit and annoying things you have to do.

EU has, so Microsoft basically made an EU version

Linux mostly works. It's both fun and frustrating learning how to operate it. There's only a couple things I can't get to work on Linux which is annoying, but much less annoying than having to deal with MS.

At some point Lemmy is going to track me down and murder me because I’m only running Linux on home automation and media servers, not my daily drivers.

Linux and a windows virtual machine with a dedicated nvme hard drive and GPU using PCI pass-through. Windows is boxed in but easily accessed when you need it, and the performance is 95% of native, or more. And because of the dedicated hard drive, you can still dual-boot it like normal if you want.

Also, I recommend installing windows 10 enterprise in the VM, minimal bloat.

Nawh

https://lemmy.cafe/post/3790518

My coworker opened edge when they added the new ai bullshit and thought the desktop was infected by a virus and started panicking.

They ship a version of Windows 10 without any of those included. It's called Windows 10 LTSC (Long Term Support Channel).

Try installing that to never be bothered again.

Sounds like a waste of time and effort lol

They said they can't wait to graduate, so I'm assuming that means they are using a Windows computer from their school, and depending on what the CIT department's policies are like there, WinAero may not accomplish much

Oh my god those popups for new features drive me insane. Yes teams, I know I can do account switching now because you've told me the last 10 times I opened the app.

It gets better if you backup and then get the prompt again after the next feature update of windows - because you get asked again and if you click on it will do a second backup which means that now all files are twice in your OneDrive, then three times, then four times, then… a reminder to upgrade OneDrive further as your storage is full.

I had to clean up this less more than once now for people and even witnessed it live after doing the upgrade for them sigh

Button's greyed out in Settings

Better yet, become a power tripping admin.

Literally the only way my Windows PC is usable at work is with admin rights.

And better pay... Hopefully

“Welcome to work. Here is your computer, your free corporate swag, and all the terrible enterprise software that will cripple your productivity.”

“When our overly aggressive security software inevitably locks you out next month, please let us know by filing a ticket at this IT portal. You will not have access to said portal once you’re locked out.”

Some professors kept the online exams for convenience (theirs and for the students depending on the type of exam), but did in presence in a university class, they dropped the recording but kept the lockdown environment so you cannot cheat even with your laptop

My professors use it for in-person tests. I just have a separate boot partition on my MacBook for it.

I'm currently running AtlasOS for the first time

I use onedrive for school and work. I think it does its job.

It's alarm fatigue. At some point you don't know what is important any longer, so you either click on everything or nothing.

the post states that op needs to run Respondus, which is proprietery spyware anti-cheat for school tests (doesnt run on linux)

Haha, where's that guy who said he never sees "you should use linux" comments on Lemmy?

Someone mentioned EndeavourOS. Really enjoy it for sure but it's still Arch at heart for better and worse. You can follow a simple guide to install it with BTRFS and get system snapshots though! :)

On my main 3D art rig I'm using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for years and loving it. Great sane security defaults, up to date packages, but they go through a bit of testing so for a rolling release it's shockingly stable. I actually quite enjoy Zypper.

If something borks? A rollback option is right there in GRUB.

Steam works just fine and I'd also recommend (on any distro) Heroic Launcher for your non-Steam stuff. Especially since GoG seems to not care much about us penguin people much at all. -_-

If you use KDE, both distros are going through some minor growing pains with Wayland at the moment, but it's getting much better very quickly. X11 is still an option, of course.

I run Endeavour on my laptop and OpenSUSE on my desktop...and......you might wanna be sitting down for this:

...Both have Nvidia.

It could be better but it's a million times better than it used to be! Installs straight from repo. Only little issues I really have are Wayland-related.

I really enjoy Linux Mint and it is what I have been using for a while. Maybe give that a try if you have not already? If you want something with more up to date features and packages, maybe try Fedora. I have not really used it personally, but I am thinking of giving it a spin on one of my machines and seeing if I like it.

It occasionally freezes and needs a forced reboot

So, it runs at least as well as Windows?

Pop-Os is a good fit if you're already familiar with Debian & do light gaming - especially on NVIDIA cards. It just works.

What do I add to my batch file to turn off this popup?

It's the start menu

So user friendly!

Learning Linux is a pain in the ass. The line is where Windows becomes less and less convenient until it is more of a pain in the ass than Linux. It’s a blurry line for some people, but for me the combination of hiding settings so I need to enter the fucking registry to change them and then serving me pop up ads on my own machine crossed the line.

But fucking hell learning linux is still a pain in the ass.

They will down vote you rather than admit defeat, like down votes are all that matters