TechnoTalk: Time to Tech

[Uncle]

It’s the direction it’s been going. For many basics like calculator, paint, notepad, file transfer, etc I’ve already switched to other tools. And my current desktop was built a couple years ago, there was a workaround to avoid the account sign in. That’s said to have been taken away.

there are supposedly still ways: https://www.notebookcheck.net/More-workarounds-appear-to-get-around-Microsoft-s-local-account-restrictions.1134227.0.html

but yeah

Windows 11 is trash garbage, it's a multitude of small details and decisions that add up...they got rid of legacy apps and legacy ways of making system changes without ever having finished their new shitty apps

it's hard to articulate how bad it is, because by nature you sound like a crazy person drilling down on minuscule details, "when I open the printer list I no longer have an easy way to get to 'devices and printers' with its multitude of convenient right click options for dealing with them, instead it's this barebones wasted space interface where sometimes the button to remove a printer isn't even present, like Windows is implying it's a permanent part of your system now and it's like what the fuck am I supposed to do, and you end up googling how to remove it manually and destructively via registry entries"

it's the above repeated dozens of times across every aspect of the system

is Windows Recall really a disabled feature because everyone hated the privacy invasion, or are they secretly turning it back on with each update

why does notepad remember everything I ever typed, the whole reason I used it was for temporary notes, I don't want to be smacked in the face with whatever I pasted in a month ago, if I needed that saved then I'll fucking save it manually

I will never use OneDrive, stop fucking pestering me about it