Count Regal Inkwell

Nerd|Furry|Linux User|Ace|BiRomantic|Taken <3

Leftist with an incorrigible love for fancy aesthetics (mostly Renaissance Italy/Victorian England) that might be incorrectly read as a monarchist because of that.

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Unicorn, but also occasionally gryphon.

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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • How auspicious that this popped up on my Lemmy feed

    Earlier on my Misskey I was bitching about how like

    Holy shit

    I hadn’t realllly used windows in 2 years (only for emergencies, and my emergency windows install is a debloated windows 10 AME thing that I set up one geological era ago). But today I was setting it up in a family member’s laptop as a favour. It somehow got even worse in the past few years!

    Like to not even get into the whole privacy and control over one’s machine discussion (someone smarter can explain that in an eloquent way that isn’t just “windows bad”, though windows IS terrible for that, mind) – it’s just annoying!

    Like you can’t even start using the computer without setting up a Microsoft account, and then you have to go through seven different screens where Microsoft wants you to give consent to them spying on you, and even if you were to say yes (don’t), it still is slow and plodding to do. And THEN after that it still sees fit to drop advertisements for Microsoft 365 and Gamepass because hey you just bought a license key to premium software? How would you like some fucking subscription services with that?

    Everytime I use a windows machine it’s a real “damn bitch you LIVE like this?” moment