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197 points

Some people are saying this is good, but Microsoft recently changed my default search engine to bing “In case it was accidentally changed or changed by another program”. I have zero faith they won’t abuse this, they are becoming ever increasingly pushy about using edge and switching to bing.

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9 points

Yeah that’s why you can’t give your computer to Fucking m$

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2 points

Set it via group policy (local or domain) and forget about it.

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5 points

How long til that’s deprecated though?

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I would guess probably not soon. Windows still needs to be able to comply with many industries needs for compliance (ITAR, HIPAA, Financial, etc etc.) If they remove the ability to control this, they cut themselves out of their largest profit area (corporate licensing).

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37 points

BS like this has made it impossible to maintain a consistent experience for my parents who aren’t super tech savvy. It’s so frustrating helping them over the phone for hours only to realise that windows just on a whim changed major settings without any user interactions. Changed theirs OS to Debian now. Much better.

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9 points

Seriously. Windows has become garbage enough that 20 years ago Linux is the better OS. Even though 20 years ago windows (well, let’s say 15) was better than modern Linux is.

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11 points

I use Kagi, and so far, it seems to casually switch it back with that message about once a month.

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67 points

It doesn’t seem like your computer, does it? It’s like you’re a user in their enterprise.

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27 points

Haven’t they recently renamed “My Computer” to “This Computer” on the desktop?

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4 points

Like the USSR, but somehow shittier, and expensive. And Theres human piss and shit on the streets because we don’t let the poor sleep in abandoned buildings.

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30 points

“Our Computer”

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