Yeah, and you can wander off and do something else in the meantime.

I’m pretty sure it’s less than 10, and I just recently set up a Windows machine.

How TF did that take three days?

How I want a windows install is “working, with no BS”.

It comes out the box working, all I needed to do was disable Onedrive on boot. I haven’t even bothered to change the background, and probably won’t.

I think they eased up on that, I just didn’t log in for quite a while because it was all recommendations for meme pages.

Lemmy really struggles with satire, this was always going to be an uphill battle.

There’s also a number of things you have to click “no” on, like a free trial office or Onedrive.

It took me around an hour to set up my new Win 11 laptop, most of which was downloading and installing updates. I expected far worse.

I think creatives on Facebook overestimate their value to an extent, I use Facebook to see what my friends and family are doing, and because the sports I do are mostly arranged through Facebook pages.

The webcomics etc I follow are cool, but if they stopped posting I wouldn’t really miss them all that much.

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I’d likely never know if Google stopped logging me into the apps I use when I get a new device?

What?

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I mean, they’re not called International Personal Machines, are they? The server-terminal system worked well for a large organisation, and it’s not far away from how many companies still do things.

That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff, to be honest. If Google did pull something like that, I could always just create an account the old fashioned way.

This may hurt some feelings, but I trust Google more than some FOSS password manager. Besides, I log into pretty much everything with my Google account anyway.

Yes, why wouldn’t we?

Doesn’t PC just mean personal computer though?

I’ve heard it compared to the scene in Toy Story where they’re trying to find the right Buzz Lightyear amongst all the identical clones.

Oh boy, cosplayers and DnD players got the shaft with that one.

Also just making their employees more productive.

There’s a very good reasons why people and organisations will pay for proprietary software when there is a free alternative available. I’ve used FOSS word processors before, for example, and they’re okay, but nothing like what Microsoft Office can do. Same with video editing.