Microsoft ia trying to get people to use Linux.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2022
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I wish it worked like that, but most people around me, though a little aware, couldn't bother switching. Some for good reasons too.
Dear Lord, what's next? That verification can meme? Windows is frustrating enough without these ridiculous hardware requirements.
I expect you need to submit to a cavity search for Windows 15.
My webcam of the laptop works, but is covered with a piece of duct tape.
Employee: Ok guys, what should we do in terms of hardware requirements?
Bill Gates: What about webcams?
Employee: What about em?
Bill Gates: They they should be required.
Employee: Why?
Bill Gates, his 2 inch cock growing under the table: It makes perfect sense. They should be on at all times.
Employee: What good would that do for windows?
Bill Gates: I'm not saying it'll do anything for Windows.
Bill Gates, now throbbing hard: What I'm saying, is that some people just need to be watched.
** Employee:** Sir, I'm not sure we can do that.
** Bill Gates, more erect than he's ever been in his life:** What's wrong? I just want to watch them.
** Bill gates:** They'll go about their business, not a care in the world, as I sit there and observe.
Employee: Mister Gates, you cannot be serious.
** Bill Gates, as his voice falls to a faint whisper while he shoots his load:** Please, make it a requirement. I just want to look at them.
And so, Webcams were made a hardware requirement.
What about desktops?
Good question, like are you gonna be forced to have a webcam plugged in?
I hope we don't see a new clusterfuck of editions like Vista and to a lesser extent 7. I wonder if this will be a requirement for the "privilege" of having Windows 11 S-Mode. The "S" version already feels like it might as well be known as "Windows 11 Laptop/Tablet".
I hope we do, and that more and more people get tired of Microsoft's shit and end up jumping ship.
Where I live, more and more shops are selling the PC without OS, only with FreeDOS and make it optional to install the OS you want.
that's cool; where (roughly) do you live?
Spain
oh ok. That's cool you get to buy a PC like that.
Also online a lot of offers of this type, f.Exmpl. https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=no+os+desktop Simply search PC without OS.
Heaven
And PC without OS are a lot cheaper (with Win +~€100, with Linux, if you don't do it yourself + some € for the CD and the service)
Absolutely lovely, windows is such a waste of money it's unbelievable
Monopolies have the tendency to abuse. I only hope that one day it is possible to ban surveillance techniques, this would be the only way to rip the teeth out of these molochs, because this is the real underlying problem of all this, lot of resources to profile and track the users. Privacy is a human right and violated by these companies. You buy a PC with a lot of money, with Wndows, because other soft companies and neded drivers and codecs only are for this OS and you see that with all the money you have spent, the OS isn't yours and above they say what you can do and what not Or you spent days in the guts of this OS, to get rid of all this crap and trash "to improve the user experience", at the risk of breaking it, to get what it should be, an OS without more, that works as it should.
ms and its new motherfuckery.
I think the article is a bit misleading, these requirements are targeted to OEMs, it means that they can't sell a laptop with Windows 11 preinstalled if it does not have a webcam.
Yes, but why?
Fortunately, real time deepfakes are possible; like capturing the webcam data and then sending it to the deepfake program.
I mean sure but wouldn't that require running Windows in a VM or giving out the original webcam feed?
Well, Apple also sells their products (Laptops and most used desktops) with webcams without any privacy protector. So it's still a Linux > Windows > Apple.