If there was a calf or bull around I wouldn’t walk through.

You can yell at them and they might disperse. If they don’t then you’d be able to walk through them.

Cows just don’t like to be startled, that’s about it.

It didn’t and I ended up with a generic driver that’s lacking a lot of function. Not the worst, and it mostly does what I need.

Why.

Is slavery allowed?

It’s still a small community. Asklemmy would be fine.

I think this makes the intermediate company a military target?

Ever since windows 11, edge, and MS’s approach to resetting defaults, I’ve stopped getting support calls from relatives. Yes it’s riddled with annoyances but it’s a net improvement over previous gen software. I see regular people struggle with tech and can tell things have improved dramatically for them.

One one hand, this can be pretty annoying.

On the other, when thinking about the lowest common denominator general user that’s been tricked into running some awful PUP-ware browser, I can understand MS’s point.

It’s probably the browser, not the OS, that’s doing this. The teams are separate although someone in upper management oversees them both.

It was pretty simple to stop windows 11.

Updates will eventually restart but not unprompted. There is a combination of settings you can set that will install updates right away and restart soon after, but it’s not default.

The vpn issue didn’t affect all vpn software and a workaround was available.

MS adds features to their products and are pretty forceful about getting you to use them.

Win11 isnt forced.

Breaking vpns was a result of security fixes and was addressed. This is normal for all OS’s that get patched.

There’s no restarting without prompting.

Copilot is optional.

I don’t need to go on.

Just disable the windows update services.

You could also use a allowlist firewall rule to restrict access to what you need.

Also why the paranoia? What do you have against windows updates?

Birb.

They’ve also been pushing PWA hard. A lot of apps run on webview2 even in specialized industries.

I won’t be surprised if we see a larger push to non-x86 and if it’s arm then it’s also possible to go risc-v if app support is there.

Because many 3rd party hardware providers are lazy, while Linux maintainers are not.

Ms provides a way to have drivers deployed over their windows update channels when needed but the hardware provider has to do it.

Linux allows basically anyone to provide a driver.

Hmm I wonder why MS has spent so much time converting office apps to run on webview2…

Love this. I don’t know much about risc-v but I’d love to see it disrupt the market a bit.

The energy inside both can’t be reused. Both a gas tank and battery can be refilled.

Gas is just easier to transfer between containers. Electricity needs it be moved inside its container.

Subscription for fuel.

I’ve never used a Pi before so I may end up using it for other things. The cost isn’t really the issue, it’s the idea of throwing out a perfectly working printer just to get network support.