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God, Windows 11 and even 10 start menu is a mess. I wish they simply would go back to the Windows 7 start menu. The AI and even the ads, I understand that happening but this shit......
 
Dirty Harry said:
God, Windows 11 and even 10 start menu is a mess. I wish they simply would go back to the Windows 7 start menu. The AI and even the ads, I understand that happening but this shit......
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You can use Open-Shell if you want to replace the start menu with the pre-win10 designs. There is also StartIsBack for windows 10 which is a paid program but they have a free trail period after that you have to pay $4.99 one time fee, the windows 11 version is called StartAllBack and its the same price as the windows 10 one with the same free trial period. One last start menu replacement is Start11 which looks alot more windows 11ish with its design if you like that better.
 
BitLocker, enabled by default in 11, also uploads your encryption keys to Microsoft by default. Those keys have been handed over to authorities as reported by a recent Forbes article (direct link, archive). It should not come as a surprise, of course. If your threat level is more than just your drives being stolen and you care about encryption on a Windoze machine, you should use a password (PIN) and be thankful to Microsoft they won't "accidentally" roll out an update that uploads the actual decryption key your password unlocks at some point in the future.
 
Combustion Engine said:
BitLocker, enabled by default in 11, uploads your encryption keys to Microsoft. Those keys have been handed over to authorities as reported by a recent Forbes article (direct link, archive). It should not come as a surprise, of course. If your threat level is more than just your drives being stolen and you care about encryption on a Windoze machine, you should use a password (PIN) and be thankful to Microslop they won't "accidentally" roll out an update that uploads the actual decryption key your password unlocks at some point in the future.
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I no longer have a working computer, but I heard from some people that even if you disable Bitlocker, it still enables itself and your hard drive still remains encrypted so if you try installing Linux on a machine with Windows 11 preinstalled, Bitlocker's encryption will stop you.
 
Hepativore said:
I no longer have a working computer, but I heard from some people that even if you disable Bitlocker, it still enables itself and your hard drive still remains encrypted so if you try installing Linux on a machine with Windows 11 preinstalled, Bitlocker's encryption will stop you.
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From what I've read about it, it can be a problem on dual-boot, single drive machines as you cannot modify its partitions outside Windows, and dual-booting is already flimsy enough as it is. Part of the problem is also GRUB being cancer, systemd-boot should handle it fine when the default TPM encryption is enabled.
 
Rape and murder anyone involved with the making of Power BI.
 
reptile baht spaniard rid said:

holy fuck if half what this guy says is true microsoft is turbofucked
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  • That entire 122-strong org was knee-deep in impossible ruminations involving porting Windows to Linux to support their existing VM management agents.
  • I later researched this further and found that no one at Microsoft, not a single soul, could articulate why up to 173 agents were needed to manage an Azure node, what they all did, how they interacted with one another, what their feature set was, or even why they existed in the first place.
  • Just months after Satya Nadella became CEO in February 2014, he canceled the dedicated SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) role, triggering significant layoffs.
  • Windows was reorganized under Azure, and overnight the existing Azure teams became central to Microsoft’s most strategic bet.
  • Layered on this chaos was an Azure-wide mandate: all new software must be written in Rust.
  • This work started around May 2024 with a target of Spring 2025 and was led by a Principal engineer who had evidently never tackled a task of that scale.
  • I learned that touching the nodes by hand was also strictly off-limits: the original design intent was that Azure would operate without human intervention.
  • What started as technical disagreements quickly exposed larger strategic and cultural fractures within the organization.
  • The org’s leadership responded with strong defensiveness and denial. Not long afterward, the organization terminated my employment.
Wow, no wonder Microsoft is a piece of shit. Even before the whole OpenAI debacle, anyone with working eyes and half a brain could tell this company is a sinking ship with a captain (or captains) that came from bizarro world.

>In the end, the organization chose the easiest route at the moment: keep adding complexity on a fragile foundation instead of investing in a careful, step-by-step modernization that could have restored autonomy and reliability.
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Am I the only person who hasn't had any major issues with Windows 11? I remember on my Windows 10 laptop I had tons of blue screens and other glitches, but I haven't had any with Windows 11. Sure, the start menu is ugly, but as far as technical problems go, I haven't had any major technical issues using Windows 11.
 
Combustion Engine said:
BitLocker, enabled by default in 11, also uploads your encryption keys to Microsoft by default. Those keys have been handed over to authorities as reported by a recent Forbes article (direct link, archive). It should not come as a surprise, of course. If your threat level is more than just your drives being stolen and you care about encryption on a Windoze machine, you should use a password (PIN) and be thankful to Microsoft they won't "accidentally" roll out an update that uploads the actual decryption key your password unlocks at some point in the future.
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If you bypass a Microsoft account during installation it supposedly doesn't send the encryption key to microslop, instead you can choose to save it locally. If you go this route use the "print" option, it saves it as a PDF file to your pc you can backup somewhere. I just put my key in bitwarden

Supposedly Microsoft doesn't receive the key in this scenario as there's nowhere to upload it to
 
This is Xbox related, but Xbox is still a Microsoft brand so this fits.

On Xbox One/Series, you could report voice chat with a 60 second clip that would capture the offending communications as demonstrated below.


Okay, cool. How come we cannot do something similar for somebody obviously cheating? The technology and capability is there.
 
Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt's developer account (direct link). In the HN discussion about VeraCrypt's sourceforge post, Wireguard's developer (direct link) says he's facing the same issue: account suspended out of the blue. Don't say we didn't warn you back in the day about needing permission from a corporation to run code on their (not yours) operating system, all they had to do was wait a decade and some more years for people to become more docile and domesticated. They'll surely be reinstated, but not a good look for the future, and no going back!
 
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