#WIndows

[arc-hus]

Villa Kogelhof, Kamperland, the Netherlands - Paul de Ruiter Architects

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... beauty is subjective ...

[2seeitall]

Corfu, Greece

[tcr55]

An empty lit office at the spooky hour in Sydney’s Alexandria is (for me) like a moth to a flame.

[robertpallesen]

Street Scene, Portland, OR © Robert Pallesen

[comfyb]

Spooky Castle ftw! Sometimes the bats flapped...

Windows 3.0 Solitaire card decks

[goobysnack]

Little art for The Thing’s birthday

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Study

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 6/25/25

[ralfmaximus]

The 2021 LTSC is available in the plain vanilla version, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021, with end of mainstream support scheduled January 12, 2027, and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021, with an extended end date of January 13, 2032. They are not quite the same as the ordinary consumer editions of Windows 10. They don't include the Windows Store or any "modern" apps. Apart from the Edge browser, they have almost nothing else: no OneDrive, no Weather or Contacts apps, and no Windows Mail or whatever it's called this week.

...no OneDrive, Copilot AI, or all of the other useless crapware cluttering up the Start menu? AND patches/support through 2032??

Don't threaten me with a good time, Microsoft.

[angryraptor13]

Here's a couple different ways to kill it (be super careful w/registry edits):

Cortana can actually go fuck itself it wants me to take all the FLAVOR out of my writing, you can pry my dashes and ellipses and fucking fragments out of my COLD DEAD HANDS you fucking AI motherfucker

[letmeinimafairy]

Carved this small gallery after filling the shell with resin first, to try and make smaller windows (so it won't break).

[arc-hus]

Khodeja Villa, Nangalkot, Bangladesh - Ground One

[abbiistabbii]

I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

[happyheidi]

𝗑, 𝗑, 𝗑, 𝗑

[chaoticneutralnpc]

A global outage of IT systems worldwide because of one faulty software update?? Totally unpredictable.