They want your current devices to become obsolete so that they can, over time, inundate you with bullshit you didn't want. With each new "update" comes more spyware, more integration, less control for you, more for them. They know you would never go for a complete transparent agenda of what they want you to use. so they force it on you bit by bit and hope you don't notice or care.
Open systems become locked down cages that you have to be a tech genius to unlock.
This is by design, to keep you routed into whatever the fuck they want you in, and out of what they want you away from.
The Windows right-click menu gave us too much power, obviously. So Microsoft had to turn those bullets into nerf darts.
The pattern is everywhere, the cringe is high.
I recently connected an older laptop to the internet, briefly. It lagged like a fucking bitch, and it wasn't laggy before connecting. It is now unstable as can be, even disconnected.
Microsoft nuked my shit at first chance they got. And YES I had automatic updates disabled and a host of other crap. I might as well have been in the passanger seat with one of those kiddy steering wheels this whole time.
Forget archive offline, STAY OFFLINE, at least on one dedicated device that you use for specific, unmonitored activities.
This is the pinnacle of bullshit. Taxpayer-funded startup Big Tech "companies" sending kill-switches into our outdated, NON-SKYNET COMPATABLE devices.
UPGRADE YOUR PC TODAY! GET UNLIMITED INTEGRATED AI SPYWARE FOR $99 A MONTH PLEB, OH YOU HAVE TO BE ONLINE 24/7 WITH ID CHECK TO USE IT BTW AND YOUR OLDER DEVICES THAT DONT HAVE THE ABILITY TO RUN OUR SPYWARE WILL DIE AS SOON AS YOU CONNECT TO THE TAXPAYER FUNDED INTERNET.
OH, YOU LIKE SCROLLING YOUTUBE VIDEOS THE SIZE OF PROFILE PICS WITH LONG TITLES AND VIEW COUNTS NEXT TO THEM BEFORE YOU CLICK THEM, SO YOU CAN EASILY SCAN YOUR FEED AND DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO CLICK? NAHBRO, WHAT YOU NEED IS GIGANTIC SCREEN-SIZED THUMBNAILS SO THAT YOU ARE FORCED TO WEAR YOUR THUMB OUT OR ELSE JUST CLICK THE FIRST THINGS WE SHOW YOU. TOO MUCH POWER IN SMALL THUMBNAILS.
everything tech related is turning to totally avoidable dogshit right before our eyes. You'd think it was on purpose if you weren't retarded?
(nsfw flair in case Tim Walz lurks the board)
Windows is evil. They have made it so difficult to get by them to install anything else it is ridiculous. Took my friend and I almost a week to figure it out, but finally got Slackware installed, and what a difference. I got stuck having to use Windows for about 6 months and it was awful. Without anti-virus too. I will never do that again. Linux is the way to go. Steep learning curve, but it is worth it.