{"id":4094,"date":"2021-05-05T02:12:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2021-05-06T04:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T11:44:58","slug":"the-windows-10-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/it\/the-windows-10-nightmare","title":{"rendered":"The windows 10 nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <A HREF=https:\/\/brennan.io\/2020\/11\/08\/windows-10-nightmare-edition\/>this<\/A> is a great article that I think sums up why I think windows 10 &#8211; and MacOs 11 &#8211; are both heading straight into dystopian land. Big corporations believe that it&#8217;s their computer, not yours, and thanks to Citizens United, those big corporations own the government as well. <\/p>\n<p>(one of my friends immediately equates me saying this with me being a Trumpian Antimasker who believes the Hollywood Elites and Liberal Academia are responsible for all the ills of the world &#8211; and I really don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s the same thing at all. Trumpanzees and antivaxers believe in things which are *not true* &#8211; I believe in something which is *demonstrably* true, which is that Microsoft has placed themselves in a position to install software on your computer without your knowledge or consent and is steadily abusing this position more and more. You *cannot* remove Edge from Windows 10. Nor a whole long list of other applications. Microsoft sincerely believes it is their computer, not yours. Even scarier, in S mode you cannot install Chrome) <\/p>\n<p>At this point I am *hoping* Microsoft screws up in some way which results in bricking millions of windows PCs, because at least that will get the government to notice how scarily dictatorship-like their position is over the desktop market. In the meantime, I will keep running windows 7, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, this is a great article that I think sums up why I think windows 10 &#8211; and MacOs 11 &#8211; are both heading straight into dystopian land. Big corporations believe that it&#8217;s their computer, not yours, and thanks to Citizens United, those big corporations own the government as well. (one of my friends immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}