The Windows file system hasn't been updated since 1993 and we still have both "Control Panel" and "Settings" colliding with each other for over a decade but nah you're right fam this is the play here
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Maybe M$ will limit their data gathering on those systems automatically (or say they will but not really). Or maybe these companies will switch OS's, despite the headaches in doing so
OMG, I'm so over this enshitification process with Windows.
*Whimpers*
It is wild that the options for OS's are a giant duopoly, or coding nerds working in their spare time and at this point they're making a nearly equivalent product.
https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/10ioxzg/will_microsoft_ever_fix_the_abomination_called/
maybe excel will learn the difference between text and currency
But apparently new versions end up breaking old apps like this. So they have to keep the old file access systems in there
Search for a file on Windows. Time it.
Pop in a live USB of Linux Mint. Boot from it. Then search for the same file.
Yes, it fucking does.
It doesn't even feel like its searching, Its like the file is already there.
Meanwhile Windows search might as well be trying to acess a hard drive on the moon.
They show boxes with blinky lights and convince investors to dump billions into Blinky Light Boxes Inc because the blinky lights will change the world and once everyone's invested they fucking run.
Everything since has been iterative, not innovative.
Even "chiplets" are iterative, because it's just a new way to do multi-CPU systems which we've had since the 1990s.
We're at a dead halt.
It'll be ready in "10-15 years," which is another way of saying "bullshit."
It's stagnated and it's also kind of unhealthy. It's too present where it shouldn't be and it didn't advance enough where it should have
Now? You can't even read an SD card unless you dedicate it to the phone & wipe its contents. It won't let you access your file system ->
Guess what our government stopped doing 40 years ago?
Hey you guys let any of the air out of that collateralized debt obligation balloon yet, or nah?
I'd argue it's already there for the sorts of people who mostly do web based stuff and many kinds of games
that's it, just sell the IDEA of paying less people less money, no matter how ridiculous the methods become
Microsoft: [whew]
It has sucked since version 1.0, which, yes, I installed in the 90s.
There is a reason Apple made APFS recently, to both take advantage of SSD's but also to add missing features like volumes.