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the war on computation
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Yea, that's a Windows Home thing.
Upgrade to pro, where that stuff doesn't exist.
Not to justify it, but the thinking by MS is "this OS is free, so you get ads", like commercial TV or the rest of the nonsense on the internet.
Also, I've run Windows with updates disabled since Windows XP, and have rarely run into problems. I say this as someone who's been in IT since the early 90's. I've seen 10x more problems caused by updates at work than anything else.
At home I enable updates every 6 months, then go manually grab the updates I need, or else it'll update things that will break my system.
Is Windows Home free? I’ve certainly never seen it be free. I’m ok with free stuff needing to make money somehow, within reason, but the second they start asking for creditcard information that shit better be clean as a fucking whistle.
see here ;)
That is a way to steal it(I ain’t no snitch, though) but it doesn’t actually refute my point.
not exactly, see here for an example:
https://feddit.org/comment/7945682
you're not stealing anything using the script
Microsoft being bad at their jobs and leaving huge holes in their software does not mean you aren’t getting something for free that you’re supposed to pay for.
Microsoft Home does cost money, and therefore should not have any ads. That’s it, that’s the end of it.
At this point I don't even know what I'm supposed to pay for. I had two Windows 10 Pro licenses, transferred those with Microsoft on the phone from OEM to virtual machines, then reinstalled them with Windows 11 and had to activate them with Massgrave scripts. Am I supposed to be paying for those? I don't want to hire a lawyer.
Fucked if I know. All I’m saying is that if Microsoft has a price tag on it then they shouldn’t put ads and the only reason I replied to that first comment was because it was saying that ads are ok if the product is free(and it isn’t). The only times Windows has been free for me is from college but that is paid for, one way or another.