Can’t wait to graduate so I don’t have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap
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YouTube shorts are my latest annoyance. They give you an x to hide it then says we’ll try again in 30 days. Shorts were a dumb idea on vine, a dumber idea on tiktok, and just about the dumbest idea on YouTube. If I wanted a sub-30 second clip I’d watch a gif.
I don’t think shorts are bad, but they aren’t the reason I go to YouTube at all. They are just in the way.
I wouldn’t even mind them as much if they showed you who posted the short before you watched it. There are a few creators I like enough that I’d watch shorts by, but I’ve got no way to know it’s by them
I agree. Shorts are just a way for me to discover new creators when I’m on the toilet since my recommendations page sucks now and never recommends new creators to me.
The other annoying thing they (esp. MS) do is pop up messages like “The whole process of saving files has changed while you were asleep [learn more][got it]” and here, when you need it, there’s never an option for “remind me later”. So you either have to stop what you’re doing and go and read a massive blog entry that’s not actually relevant to the task in hand or you need to dismiss the message and never be able to find it when it’s actually relevant
Linux/FreeBSD and piracy are like the only way to mostly avoid this crap now lol.
Every shopping site now wants you to sign up for some kind of discount or offer as well.
Instead of “No thanks” or “No, I don’t want to subscribe”, the reject button always says “No, I want to pay full price” or “No, I don’t like savings” and other manipulative bs.
Makes me not want to shop there.
Yes! It really is that. Just like how so many men are taught to never take “no” as an answer from a woman, and to keep pestering her until she gives in.
We need a community! I am really annoyed by this, it is rapey and gaslighting and abusive. Another one they started to do is “You are almost finished with your updates”, updates that i didn’t request nor allow.
We need words, customized pitchforks and a leader to recover dignity!
There’s already one. it’s called the linux community
Just use Linux
Scumbag design: cave in now or get pestered again in a few days
“It’s important we give our users a choice.”
“… and then just keep giving them that same choice over and over again for as long as it takes for them to finally do what we want.”
The floggings will continue until morale improves.
Literal malware techniques. MS learned well from all the viruses that infected Windows in the 2000s
Can’t wait to graduate so I don’t have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap
Well, I’ve got some bad news depending on what industry you’re going into: the business world runs on Windows.
And the tech world will often force you to use a macbook, as well. As if Windows wasn’t locked down enough.
God I hate not being able to change FN and ctrl on a locked down mac that work gives me , also all the other limitations
Yeah but it pesters your sysadmin in your stead
Linux, bro.
Linux.
Linux mostly works. It’s both fun and frustrating learning how to operate it. There’s only a couple things I can’t get to work on Linux which is annoying, but much less annoying than having to deal with MS.
The logic I always subscribe to is, issues in Linux can be fixed maybe not by you or me but someone at some point in the future. On a long enough timeline we win. Where as it’s not an issue with Windows, but a business decision to annoy you and thus can never be fixed.
It’s been like that for 20 years though. This is the future and it still isn’t ready
I’ve been daily driving it for 10 years, what’s the problem with it?
I haven’t used windows for 15 years, minimum
It’s so much better than it used to be though. There’s been a lot of real progress and there’s more interest than ever in creating a viable Linux consumer-grade desktop among foss developers and even corporations.
I’ll grant you it’s definitely not there yet for non-techies. But I do think we’ll get there eventually and I wouldn’t have said that 5 years ago.
Most Windows issues and annoyances can be fixed pretty easily with registry tweaks. This specific issue requires you to go trough the major effort of changing a single 0 to a 2.
As long as its still easier to completely debloat windows instead of debugging Linux, your so called win is still far away.
And the demolition plans are in a disused washroom in the basement behind a sign that says “beware of the leopard.” That’s an absurd justification.
Normal users are not going to root around in the registry and twiddle things to mske the OS treat them with respect. Most of them won’t search for it, and many of those that do won’t have the skills to deploy a registry hack or identify legit info instead of malware or pranks.
The right answer is a third button-- “No, forever.” We all know it’s the right answer; I’m sure even Microsoft has focus group data. It doesn’t exist because someone in Redmond’s bonus is tied to how many people are cowed into signing up for OneDtive.
I’ve got a CS degree and 15 years of dev experience, and have come to the conclusion that you can’t negotiate in good faith with Windows anymore. It is going to take you down whichever hellpath their biz-dev team demands, and any attempts to fight it are going to be undermined and replaced with a new set of hacks or a differeny gauntlet of dark patterns for a few months later.
Maybe LTSC and Enterprise versions are a bit better, where they might have to preserve the goodwill of big dollar corporate customers instead of chasing some trifling revenue hack, but do we as ordinary users on home/pro licenses not deserve the same respect? And even there, don’t those business customers have to spend undue effort crafting and deploying policies to cram the endless stream of spam back in the box?
Normal users are not going to root around in the registry and twiddle things to mske the OS treat them with respect.
I absolutely agree with you, and this statement is absurd, given the context.
Recently I decided to try out gaming with linux. What was planned to be a weekend project turned into multiweek project, and it included a lot of “rooting around” to get things working the way I wanted them to. Maybe it’s linux treating me with respect, when I have to start planning for hibernation when I’m partitioning the drive. Maybe it isn’t.
(Aside, Valve has done great work with proton. It’s time to reconsider, if games are keeping you from switching over.)
What distribution did you try to use? Some of them are steeper to learn than others.
For background, my first linux was debian in late 90’s. I went through gentoo to ubuntu, until I got mac for work about a decade ago. By then my home rig was single booting windows.
So, given my history with debian, I started with ubuntu, only to realize I don’t like its current state. Next up was pop_os, because it’s heavily recommended for gaming. After some time I came to conclusion, that everything I know about linux on desktop is badly outdated, so I might as well go heavy and try arch. I chickened out, though, and went with manjaro. It’s actually quite nice, save for that hibernation.
Sorry you’re nvidia card is a nightmare because of Nvidia, not open source efforts
Surprisingly enough, nvidia drivers turned out to be the easy part.
“Simply find the registry value and know to change it from 0 to 2 to turn off this specific recurring ad on your own machine.” No thanks, I can actually just begin adless and remain adless with one simple trick.
Going outside,?
Windows is way more shitty than Linux is difficult to learn, because it isn’t. You just need to understand how computers actually work to be able to use Linux.
It’s both fun and frustrating learning how to operate it.
This should be emblazoned somewhere in the initial Linux setup. I’m not in tech by trade, just a hobbyist nerd, and playing with Linux is like if a soulslike game were an OS. I had a terrible time figuring out how to get both monitors to work but eventually did and that felt like a huge win when it finally happened. Had an equally bad time trying to figure out how to install some game software but finally got that sorted and it felt like another big victory. But I still dual boot for now because some days I’m just not ready for the heartburn of dealing with my own ignorance in Linux
For me, Linux recreates the exhilaration of 1990s MsDOS: will this setting, that I really don’t understand, make my game work or just render my whole system unusable?
I really want to play this awesome new game called Syndicate…
What’s the worst that can happen? Reformat for a 4th time this week?
y/n?
Nawh
Linux and a windows virtual machine with a dedicated nvme hard drive and GPU using PCI pass-through. Windows is boxed in but easily accessed when you need it, and the performance is 95% of native, or more. And because of the dedicated hard drive, you can still dual-boot it like normal if you want.
Also, I recommend installing windows 10 enterprise in the VM, minimal bloat.
At this point the EU should just set a timer for complaining that Microsoft uses Windows’ large market share to force services on their users. I do like efficient governments.
EU has, so Microsoft basically made an EU version
Get WinAero Tweaker. It’s a tool that applies dozens of registry and group policy settings to kill stuff like this. I ran it once ages ago and never have had to deal with stuff like your screenshot.
They said they can’t wait to graduate, so I’m assuming that means they are using a Windows computer from their school, and depending on what the CIT department’s policies are like there, WinAero may not accomplish much
If the computer is owned by a company or institution they shouldn’t see this anyway. They should either be using Microsoft work or school accounts or they should be using local accounts and the admin should set the required registry settings for them.
I think that they could be using their own computer but they have to use Windows to be able to use whatever Respondus is.
How about Roku’s “Consent or we brick your TV?”
… Hide all notifications from OneDrive.
That shut up the ‘backup’ prompt.
It gets better if you backup and then get the prompt again after the next feature update of windows - because you get asked again and if you click on it will do a second backup which means that now all files are twice in your OneDrive, then three times, then four times, then… a reminder to upgrade OneDrive further as your storage is full.
I had to clean up this less more than once now for people and even witnessed it live after doing the upgrade for them sigh
Graduation unlocks all the white collar career paths, and your inevitable induction to enterprise IT spyware and power tripping local admins.
Better yet, become a power tripping admin.
Literally the only way my Windows PC is usable at work is with admin rights.
The policies at my work are really backwards IMO.
I have full administrative access to our prod hypervisor (including inside the VMs running on it)… but not my own dev machine 🤦♂️🤦♂️
And better pay… Hopefully
Once you graduate, this will be the least of your annoyances.
“Welcome to work. Here is your computer, your free corporate swag, and all the terrible enterprise software that will cripple your productivity.”
“When our overly aggressive security software inevitably locks you out next month, please let us know by filing a ticket at this IT portal. You will not have access to said portal once you’re locked out.”
Wait, are universities still using Respondus?
I feel for you. It was used a lot during the beginning of the pandemic, but I thought it was dropped by now.
Some professors kept the online exams for convenience (theirs and for the students depending on the type of exam), but did in presence in a university class, they dropped the recording but kept the lockdown environment so you cannot cheat even with your laptop
My professors use it for in-person tests. I just have a separate boot partition on my MacBook for it.
Every time you open anything in office applications you get these small pop-ups
- See what changes others did?
- We added a new feature, do you want to see it?
Oh my god those popups for new features drive me insane. Yes teams, I know I can do account switching now because you’ve told me the last 10 times I opened the app.
Meanwhile I’ve been trying to turn off all the news, bing smart AI, and BS popups in windows 11 on the computers where we clock in for weeks. No such luck.
Sounds like a waste of time and effort lol
This is a thing that annoys me and it’s not just Microsoft doing this: there’s never a “No” button, it’s always “Not now” or “Maybe later”. As if i’m going to reconsider. As if it’s an honest offer worth thinking about and not a pop-up.
If anything, I’m even further disincentivised to log in if they’re threatening to remotely copy my hard drive. That just sounds like a scam.
Pro Tip: You can create a local only account on a New PC as long as you skip connecting to wifi during setup.
With the current Windows 11 installer this doesn’t work anymore.
But you can download the ISO, use Rufus to create a USB boot stick and disable all the requirements (account, RAM, TPM, CPU generation) in Rufus’ options. Also lets you auto-deny all telemetry options and create a user account without prompting.Why would you want Windows 11? Great tips, though.
Because Windows 10 Support runs out next year.
Quite a lot of people in my country still use Windows 7, even 4 whole years after support ended, they really don’t wanna give it up.
I wonder if the same will be true for Windows 10.
This is what life is like for women. So many men are taught to not take “no” for an answer, and just keep pressuring her, waiting for her to wear down and give in.
Casually watching Windows users complain about Windows when I’ve been shilling Linux for 10 years strong.
Seriously though, I’m actually wondering where the Windows lovers will finally draw the line.
Learning Linux is a pain in the ass. The line is where Windows becomes less and less convenient until it is more of a pain in the ass than Linux. It’s a blurry line for some people, but for me the combination of hiding settings so I need to enter the fucking registry to change them and then serving me pop up ads on my own machine crossed the line.
But fucking hell learning linux is still a pain in the ass.
They will down vote you rather than admit defeat, like down votes are all that matters
the downvotes are because the post specifically mentions Respondus, a software that does not run on Linux. the knee jerk didn’t-read-the-post response comments are not really helpful to people who don’t have a choice, not because they “refuse to admit defeat” come on now.
They probably downvoted because sometimes your job or education strictly requires Linux-incompatible software, and you can’t do anything about it;
but then again, 9 out of 10 of those people spare absolutely no effort to move their eggs out of the metaphorical Windows basket.
They should get mad at the people that force them to use proprietary garbage to do basic tasks. I love that I don’t have to use Windows at work but I also work for a company that understands there’s a job to do and the best tools aren’t corporate schlock.
Some do, unfortunately getting mad about them is sometimes all they can do in some cases (e.g. the OP)
