• boreengreen@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    The goal with software like windows is to eventualy take away all control. If you can run unaproved software, you can’t even join the teams call. Then you will see stuff like this.

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      6 days ago

      I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software

    • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zip
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      Years ago, I’d laugh at this.

      Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.

      On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.