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Semi tangential, but I'm amazed there isn't more uproar over what Microsoft is doing with Windows 10 <-> 11 and devices that don't have hardware TPM. Just completely fucking their user base, to what end? A one-time bump in sales for hardware partners?

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Not to mention the ecological destruction. Perfectly good computers, but support for the OS people are used to is now over..

Microsoft used to have the motto "Where do you want to go today?". Seems like Copilot has decided we should all go to hell.

They have been screwing over their user base for a long time though incrementally.

Things were pretty good for like a decade, from Windows 7 through most of 10!

10 was the beginning of forced updates, forced telemetry and disregard for user consent. 10 is the boundary. For me it's the beginning of when consent started being ignored by default everywhere. Microsoft sets the example, and the example is that the user choices do not matter at all.

Well, software do ask for consent sometime. But asking again every once in a while until the user misclicks is not that.

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