Microsoft hate thread - I just want to rant about Microsoft

[Baraka Obama]

But ultimately I don't want TPM. I don't want bitlocker. I don't want any of my files encrypted because I assume the relevant authorities have a backdoor anyway. I want an OS where I can literally just keep my files on local storage. No cloud shit, nothing, just MY files on the expensive hard drives I own. If anything fucks up, I can just use a LiveOS to grab them. It looks like that's straight up not possible with modern Windows so looks like I'm gonna revert back to Debian again.

Whatever bad shit you have on your hard drive you can be legally compelled to reveal anyway. FS/Disk encryption makes sense for corps that can remote wipe a laptop and want some protection in the meantime. I really don't understand why it's pushed on regular people.

 

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

Whatever bad shit you have on your hard drive you can be legally compelled to reveal anyway. FS/Disk encryption makes sense for corps that can remote wipe a laptop and want some protection in the meantime. I really don't understand why it's pushed on regular people.

I feel the general jist is that retards will have child porn or terrorist material on their desktop which inevitably gets scooped up by onedrive and marked for the authorities to check. I genuinely cannot see any other reason for Microsoft to automatically back up everything in your photos or documents folder and stick it on the cloud forever if you're just a boring regular person with a microsoft account. Maybe for AI profiling by getting something to build a profile to advertise to.

Microsoft isn't going to give a single fuck that you have a blu-ray rip of The Sopranos. Neither are the police. They're not going to care you have 18tb of music that's clearly pirated. They're not going to care if you have everything off Prime, Netflix and whatever other streaming services in 4k quality on your home server.

So it really does boggle the mind WHY they care so much about TPM. WHY they care so much about encryption. WHY they care so much about cloud storage. You'd think they'd be wanting to make it an optional thing so they don't get bogged down with hundreds of TB of boring photos that are never looked at again by people who rip them from their cameras. But yet it's all there automatically, and it's a generous amount of free storage too.

It's really fucking strange and I don't want to be apart of it.

 

[Free Alex Jones]

WHY they care so much about TPM

WHY they care so much about encryption

These aren't for your benefit, they are for the benefit of enterprize organizations who need to be able to attest to the state of their employees BYOD setup before permitting them to be able to have access to organizational data.

WHY they care so much about cloud storage

So that helpdesk doesn't have to deal with morons that don't keep backups and think that storing important documents on their desktop is a good idea.

 

[AnOminous]

There's also the horrifying realisation that I might have accidentally reseated the CPU without realising, breaking the power from the CMOS and fucking the TPM.

I've never had this happen personally but I'm wondering if anyone here knows if there is a physical way to avoid the system from noticing you took out one part, put in exactly the same part, and then restarted it. Obviously if it's still plugged in (obviously never do this), there's still some power and you see a couple lights indicating that.

Even if you unplug it, these persist for a while. Is there a way to discharge all power such that there is no way for the TPM shit to notice that somehow, when it was completely unconscious, you took out a part and put back in exactly the same part?

If not, this sounds like some evil voodoo, man.

I already turned off TPM in the BIOS or UEFI or whatever the fuck they're calling it now, because apparently Windows 11 requires it so it seemed like a good way to stop these assholes from installing Windows 11 while I was asleep. Apparently this demiurge is still doing shit though.

Is there a way of knocking this nigger out, since it can't actually be removed from the hardware?

 

[SchizoDaemon]

The amount of fucking around people do with modern windows is insane. If you are fucking around this much with the OS you might as well install Linux.

I got to this stage back during COVID.

 

[Frosted Snowflakes]

Microsoft confirmed that they hate attractive curvy women in gaming, and prefer DEI-uglified "women".

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Microsoft confirmed that they hate attractive curvy women in gaming, and prefer DEI-uglified "women".

It isn't just the sex appeal angle. They've reduced the amount of gore in games across the industry. The last game I remember having a lot of gore was GoW 3.

Stellar Blade had a lot more gore in the PS5 demo, and it was toned down in a patch. Everyone was sperging about the fucking bunny outfit, and nobody noticed the gore had been reduced by a lot.

 

[Battlefield42]

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[Organized Derailment]

I am having a minor problem right now with Teams (as per usual), and it has frustrated me enough that it actually got me thinking about just how long I have been getting my ass fucked by Microsoft. So instead of talking about a boring issue with teams, I am going to scream in this thread about Xbox.

as a kid I have a ps2 and whatever current nintendo console
get a 360
red rings within 8 months
send it back and play on ps2 and gamecube while I wait
get it back
red rings within 8 months
send it back and play on ps2 and wii while I wait
get it back
red rings within 8 months
send it back and play on ps2 and wii while I wait
get it back
red rings within 8 months
send it back and play on ps2 and NES (I got into retro) while I wait
get it back
red rings within 8 months
send it back and play on ps2 and Pc Engine while I wait
get it back
warranty has expired.
I realize I am sitting on a time bomb so I sell a bunch of retro stuff and my 360 to get a slim 360.
Lasts for 3 years before the power brick blows
system wont turn on, even with a replacement ac adaptor
decide it is time to upgrade anyway, so I get an xbox one.
within 6 months it cannot connect to the internet anymore, even when using an ethernet cable.
call support and they tell me to factory reset. I do this and it still wont work
but now I have deleted all the day one patches, which are required to even use the system offline
I have effectively bricked the system
I play ps2 and wii while deciding what I am going to do next
Realize I still have my childhood ps2 from like a decade ago and it is as good as ever.
sell my xbox on craigslist.
get a ps4
still have the ps4

Playstation is great now, but as someone who had both the PS3 and Xbox 360 back in the day, there was no reason to play PS3 if you were a multiplayer guy.. Halo era was unmatched during peak 360.

 

[debristar]

Whatever bad shit you have on your hard drive you can be legally compelled to reveal anyway

you don't know what you're talking about

it's 2026, we don't need to compel anymore

all you need is expert testimony, logs, and one lie.

your browser probably sends anonymous data that includes hashes of files you saved as along with your ip address saved by delivering server and enough other information to uniquely identify device on network.

none of you are sharing questionable material offline on usb. everyone is using a browser.

prosecutor: *shows-defendants-desktop-background did you save this file as?
defendant: yes
prosecutor: *shows-questionable-file what about this one, did you save this as too?
defendant: no
prosecutor: the defendant is lying

end of story

they got you by the balls

Stalin was right, people getting stomped like kittens.

 

[Baraka Obama]

you don't know what you're talking about

it's 2026, we don't need to compel anymore

all you need is expert testimony, logs, and one lie.

your browser probably sends anonymous data that includes hashes of files you saved as along with your ip address saved by delivering server and enough other information to uniquely identify device on network.

none of you are sharing questionable material offline on usb. everyone is using a browser.

prosecutor: *shows-defendants-desktop-background did you save this file as?
defendant: yes
prosecutor: *shows-questionable-file what about this one, did you save this as too?
defendant: no
prosecutor: the defendant is lying

end of story

they got you by the balls

Stalin was right, people getting stomped like kittens.

If that were happening it would be trivial to trace it in wireshark or even charles proxy.

 

[debristar]

If that were happening it would be trivial to trace it in wireshark or even charles proxy

you can be targeted to be delivered a different update payload from the rest.

they don't just actively listen in or penetrate, they first identify a target, and sometimes they probably get caught.

if the target ip is asking for update, give them compromised build. set appropriate flags to not set off any alarms, make them think the version is the same as everyone else.

get whatever you need, then issue an update again to everyone to reset to same latest build without difference.

you'd have to know it's happening to you to do anything about it.

do you really think software version numbers are honest or have any meaning? it's just x.x.x

customer support might ask what version you are on but they won't know there's a difference.

some teams just get a dll and are told to not ask any questions.

is it really so hard to believe this is possible?

or you don't think they are smart enough to do it? that they lack the capacity or the expertise?

 

[Baraka Obama]

you can be targeted to be delivered a different update payload from the rest.

they don't just actively listen in or penetrate, they first identify a target, and sometimes they probably get caught.

if the target ip is asking for update, give them compromised build. set appropriate flags to not set off any alarms, make them think the version is the same as everyone else.

get whatever you need, then issue an update again to everyone to reset to same latest build without difference.

you'd have to know it's happening to you to do anything about it.

do you really think software version numbers are honest or have any meaning? it's just x.x.x

customer support might ask what version you are on but they won't know there's a difference.

some teams just get a dll and are told to not ask any questions.

is it really so hard to believe this is possible?

or you don't think they are smart enough to do it? that they lack the capacity or the expertise?

Personally I'm using a browser I have to manually update so I guess this particular schizo theory doesn't apply to me.

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

i would like to make a record of the following happening:
Edge performed an auto update, detected it as an unintentional change of settings, then promptly, somehow, reverted the update

 

[Serterserter]

These aren't for your benefit, they are for the benefit of enterprize organizations who need to be able to attest to the state of their employees BYOD setup before permitting them to be able to have access to organizational data.


So that helpdesk doesn't have to deal with morons that don't keep backups and think that storing important documents on their desktop is a good idea.

Filesizes are growing constantly, people's digital libraries are growing constantly, and getting people on subscription services is growing constantly.

And to be fair, it's relatively foolproof. Try setting your parents up with external drives or a NAS for their backups, compared to having them pay for Cloud Storage and having local folders sync up automatically.

 

[seri0us]

And to be fair, it's relatively foolproof. Try setting your parents up with external drives or a NAS for their backups, compared to having them pay for Cloud Storage and having local folders sync up automatically.

A retirement home thats really expensive but doesnt exploit the old people whatsoever including part of the service being a server with these self sufficiently self hosted kinda things so grandma and grandpa arent being exploited by the Cloud Owners big google and big apple

 

[Overly Serious]

I would be somewhat more tolerant of the backup system if I could actually permanently disable it. But so far it's come back from anything I've done. Disabling in the UI settings doesn't work. I tried a registry hack which got rid of it but it's back again.

A few people on here will know me as a strong Windows user. I've provided people here handy Powershell scripts and I'm generally a power user. Sadly I think I'm going back to Linux. I nearly did at the end of last year but stuck it out a little longer. But it's getting less and less viable to keep this computer as MY computer.

I genuinely like Windows. But Microsoft are killing it.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

I would be somewhat more tolerant of the backup system if I could actually permanently disable it.

I know more people who despise Onedrive than actually like it. Onedrive is such a thorn in my side at work that I just move all the files I need to work with, to a folder outside of Documents.

 

[Overly Serious]

I know more people who despise Onedrive than actually like it. Onedrive is such a thorn in my side at work that I just move all the files I need to work with, to a folder outside of Documents.

I live in a state of continual concern that OneDrive is going to hoover something up into the cloud I don't want it to. I really need to see if I can remove it completely, but I do have Office which I actually want and it's included in the package.

How is MS Office under Wine these days? If I can do that I'll maybe start my migration to Linux next weekend.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

I live in a state of continual concern that OneDrive is going to hoover something up into the cloud I don't want it to. I really need to see if I can remove it completely, but I do have Office which I actually want and it's included in the package.

How is MS Office under Wine these days? If I can do that I'll maybe start my migration to Linux next weekend.

Yeah I would create a CMyFiles type of directory to keep it from hitting OneDrive.

MS Office, I only have it on my work laptop and haven’t tried to install it on Windows. LibreOffice suites my personal needs.