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[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 204 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"uninstalled" ... til the first automatic update πŸ™ƒ

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 167 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HI! I'm Skype!

uninstall

Hi! I'm Skype!

uninstall

Hi! I'm skype!

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 127 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Are you suuuuure you don't want to use Edge? Are you suuuuure you don't want it to be the default handler for .pdf and .svg files? Are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? Just in case, we'll pin it to your start menu again and put a shortcut to it on your desktop. Just until you're sure."

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Apple's starting to get more and more into this. Safari pesters you and nobody wants NEWS/Stocks/AppleTv App, Weather, etc. But you can't uninstall them :(

[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was able to uninstall all of the apps you just mentioned on iPhone just to cure my curiosity.

Which Apple device is not letting you uninstall those apps?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

MacOS not iPhone. Should have specified

[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No worries! I was just a little confused when I tried it on my iPhone and it worked.

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[–] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got so annoyed with the fucking shortcut reappearing that I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

Just out of sight and out of mind.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

lol I did the exact same thing. That and all the unnecessary crap my work installs that I will never use but can't even uninstall the damn shortcuts they slap on my desktop are all jammed in the corner of a monitor off to the side.

[–] Techmaster@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

And then they made it where you can't just select a different browser, you have to go manually associate each type with the new browser.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cortana is being killed and replaced with their ChatGPT Bing thing.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does Microsoft hate Halo so much

It’s a successful consumer product. Can’t have that under the Microsoft umbrella

Microsoft will punish Halo for each and every fan that failed to spend $2000 on mtx armor colors

[–] livus@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does that mean the AI thing will be unable to be uninstalled?

[–] DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Probably. It will be an "essential" part of the OS, like Edge.

[–] zib@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Which means it'll probably be training on literally everything you do on the computer and reporting it all back to Microsoft

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Sounds like a good reason to get rid of windows 😁

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, Windows itself has been a good reason to get rid of Windows for a long time.

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows itself has been a good reason to get rid of Windows for a long time

🀣 ... best sentence i've seen today. +1

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[–] DreamySweet@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. A lot of what you do is already being reported back to Microsoft though.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just like Cortana, however, there will be a way to disable it via Group Policy somehow. That's because government institutions that use Windows will not be happy with there being a feature in the OS that is capable of listening to a microphone and transmitting what it hears to a third party. I know Cortana can take voice commands, and I'd doubt their AI thingy will be much different in the user facing implementation.

[–] igorlogius@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

there will be a way to disable it

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It will be an β€œessential” part of the OS, like ~~Edge~~ Internet Explorer 4.

[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

easy enough to just block telemetry

[–] mk36109@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can its just a slightly more involved process. They already released a tutorial

[–] crowsby@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Which is also when they regularly try and get you to mistakenly click a button to make Edge your default browser. Scummy dark patterns.

[–] Morku@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never got unwanted stuff back after update.

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its seemed... better lately. But I used to get skype back every single update when 11 first came out.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They also fuck with privacy settings too on uodate...

Switched to Linux after that shit.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know about Windows 11, but my Windows 10 instance also reverts my "fast startup" setting on every major update. I know this, because my PC's motherboard does not work with "fast" startup and instead takes about half an hour to get from POST to desktop when it's enabled. Suffice to say that I know when Microsoft changes this setting behind my back. I have it disabled for a reason, fuckheads.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AMD?

I've got a Gigabyte Auros Elite X570 with the 5600. I have to disable fast boot from BIOS because it causes my computer to boot up much more slowly.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think Fast Boot is more about screwing up anything third party.

If it's on, it bollixes up the wireless card if you reboot into Linux. But even without dual-booting, it seems to leave USB devices active that I don't want (specifically a USB->serial adaptor with a peripheral danging off of it)

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have a pro or enterprise license?