This is truly the land of fuck you. It’s a race to the bottom to see who can be the biggest asshole.

If you see someone cutting down a flock camera, no you didn’t

Since I haven’t seen these mentioned yet:

Clipcascade (clipboard sharing across multiple OSes, handy when “copy from this VM and paste to that VM gets funky with the intermediary rdp client)

Infisical (self hosted secrets management, used for n8n automation pulls so I’m not storing credentials and api keys on a VPS)

Plus a Debian 13 VM for Claude+Hermes and a Fedora workstation VM to pretend I have a central workstation somewhere.

Jfc… I had no idea

Cheers… and I’m sorry for the pathetic question, but why the hell wouldn’t these companies think of this? It seems like such a basic obvious no-brainer to me, again, not knowing the technical details.

Yep, and add the OS itself spying with an unremovable universal ID, by a company who proactively reports on you, and wtf moments really turn surreal.

Right!? I’ll be the first to admit I don’t understand context, windows, or whatever the limit is, but I can’t understand how these large language models have probably exabytes worth of data hoovered up from all over but they can’t remember what I told it either a minute ago or in another chat. I’ve taken to trying to get it to write markdown files to help its own memory, but I don’t know if those are counting against me for context or whatever either.

Not to pile on, but my real grape is the nanny nature of some of these, especially nannythropic. I can’t tell of our times they told me outright that “I won’t do XYZ. This is a hard limit you can’t get around it.” And I’m sitting here like dude you just created that test record to verify the piping you can’t go back through and delete it because it’s a record delete? Le sigh…

Great point… i’m no expert in software development or user experience or whatever but it just seems obvious to stop adding friction in all forms including your notepad example. And of course the ads for OneDrive and suggestions on the start menu, etc…

The tough part to me is that it seems Microsoft is thinking they’re the hero by doing common sense stuff solving (part of) a pain they’ve introduced in the first place.

Anyway, I’m windows free after moving my gaming pc to cachy and couldn’t be happier.

Great. How about stop spying on us first?

“I pledge allegiance,to the flag, …”

I really wish I knew to what extent they retasked engineers to work on that pile of shit copilot rather than maintaining and improving the rest of their portfolio. In recent weeks alone, I have provisioned a Windows 365 box that mysteriously randomly showed up in São Paulo Brazil, despite the account and everything else being based in the US. Intune Controls erroring out every click when I tried to set policy to fix it. I have had OneDrive zip files, almost always corrupt, regardless of end point or network connection.

I couldn’t even change a billing payment method without going through support on another case, and all of this adds to the infuriating addition of friction and clicks to get to the old fucking apps at office.com. All this from the same company that brought you windows server 2012 when tablets were released and took away the start menu as if all of us were going to start running our data centers on fucking tablets.

On top, no less, of Microsoft proactively going out of their way to spy on Windows users and forward their information to law-enforcement without them being under investigation and without a warrant.

Enshitification surely is a thing, but at $1 trillion company scale is just absolutely fucking wild.

I went to a place last week where dinner for two was over $150. I shit you not, on the credit card receipt they had a line that said “donation” between tip and total.

Fuck that shithole company

I’d rather vote for the algae too

“Fuck them. And any “AI First” company. Do you think we forgot about “cloud first”? Or that Boeing is a “digital company that just happens to sell airplanes”?

Fucking hype chasing drooling brainwashed simpletons

Take my upvote and gtfo 😂