Every day I become more grateful my computer is ‘incompatible’ with Windows 11.
Windows is malware.
Finally someone who agrees with me! Windows itself is a virus that has spread too wide, but thankfully we got a cure that is slowely but surely starting to work
I’ve said it for decades. It checks all the boxes for being classified as a virus.
Always was.
Yes, and it won’t get better. There is no effective regulation against this kind of stuff. US big tech companies are basically (not theoretically/legally, but in practice) allowed to steal everything from their consumers what they want these days, just like AI companies violate copyrights on a massive scale.
In the EU, the US big tech companies already managed to pull off a regulatory capture of the Irish Data Protection agency, the one responsible for all US big tech companies operating in Europe, the one that is theoretically supposed to ensure data protection. Because that agency is being headed by a former Meta lobbyist. That means there will be effectively zero repercussion for US big tech breaking copyright, privacy, data protection or other such laws in the EU, despite the EU having some of the strongest data protection laws in theory. They will all be not mostly, but fully, ignored. There were never many repercussions before, and fines had symbolic character at best, but now they can all go completely unhinged, and on top of that the US will also add political pressure on countries which dare to hold US-based companies accountable under local laws. Since many EU countries and/or UK are essentially digital colonies of US tech companies I don’t think there will be much resistance. There are tons of self-inflicted painful dependencies on the dollar, on SWIFT, on US-based credit cards, on US-based cloud providers, … for the EU, the US turning rogue is massively painful, but this outcome was already predictable decades ago, yet nothing was being done about it.
And so MS will absolutely enshittify Windows even more to harvest more and more data and feed their AI models, and there will be zero repercussion, except that Windows will continue to slowly decline and desktop Linux will continue to slowly climb up. It’s just a matter of time. It’s just sad that MS gets away with all that crap. The people who value data protection or privacy have already left the MS world long ago. The rest will simply get looted - all your personal and work life belongs to MS (and, by extension, to the US) if you continue to use their software and services.
I have to use Teams for work. Every time I upload a PowerPoint it’s 30s of waiting before I can put it into presentation mode, and the error message if I hammer the button is " we’re still loading your PowerPoint", and I can SEE it’s already loaded. The event that marks when I can hit the button? Is when the search bar turns into a copilot prompt bar.
Microsoft is a criminal organisation. Their employees and shareholders should be shunned and shamed by the public.
Word
PowerPoint
Trivago
Eeeeeey macarena!
Venusaur
And my axe!
And my Bunny Bracelet
Excel
You also need to go through the settings with an electron microscope and turn off all the data collection stuff. The text prediction, dictionary, pen and tablet stuff, it all collects and sends data to MS. There’s a bunch of services that you need to turn off as well- some of them you can’t.
Optimally you would take a scalpel to the registry and group policy editor.
There’s a bunch of super useful scripts you can find on github, too!
Edit: Oh shit how could I forget, remove all the microsoft bullshit rules in the firewall as well.
Is there a list somewhere of everything you should turn off?
Here’s a powershell script you can run that takes care of most problems: https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
Make sure to read the whole readme before you run it! It works for Win10 too.
And here’s a great tweaking tool from MajorGeeks.com, which can keep you occupied for a few hours:
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/majorgeeks_registry_tweaks.htmlBefore you make any changes, do a full system backup so that in case things start getting wonky, you can revert it. This often happens because a lot of the crap is deeply hooked into the system (guess why), so when you remove or disable stuff, sometimes you get some unpredictable or annoying behaviors.
It takes years to learn all the ins and outs of properly performing Windows debloating surgery, but the satisfaction is real, and worth it.
Happy slicing! :)
Thank you so much!
My pleasure! <3
Do those all degrade the speed of copy and paste as well?
I have no clue, but it sure as fuck doesn’t improve any performance metric.
Microsoft is run entirely by incompetent idiots.
No, it’s the exact opposite but their end goal is something entirely different than most want them to.
What?
Microsoft isn’t run by incompetent idiots, it is run by people with a malicious agenda.
The purpose is to make a fuckton of money. They do that. Ergo, they are supremely competent. At making money.
OS and software? Not so much. But that isn’t important.
They used to be good at making money. Now they’re mostly good at throwing away what they’ve made chasing next quarter bumps.
Couldn’t happen to a better company. I hope SteamOS destroys these dumbfucks when it gets fully released.
How does one disable copilot in Word? The things I’ve thought of don’t seem to work or it wouldn’t let me do.
Installing Libreoffice should work
Work computer. Not allowed.
Open a request ticket. You never know until you ask.
I would specifically add details about how Copilot is interfering with your work flow by causing the software to lag every time you paste something. Add some back of the envelope math showing how much time and money it’s costing them per day/week/month to have you let copilot lag your computer.
They won’t even let us have Firefox.
Then it’s work’s problem. Don’t use it for personal things (which, really, you shouldn’t do anyway for basically the same reason).
True. I keep that shit on-campus and don’t cross-contaminate.
Also pretty funny when coworkers are annoyed by work emails showing up on their phones and I’m just like “give me a work phone, then.”
PortableApps. Scoop.
Switch workplaces
/s but honestly do it if you can
Honest answer? Uninstall and reinstall with modified install instructions to only install the last version pre-copilot integration and disable updates.
The other options are more like ‘turn off this copilot button’ not an actual disable.Thanks! I wondered if it would be something like this.
I did this and annoyingly it just so happens the last pre-copilot version (i beleive) also has the old grey toobars & interface, rather than the white & colorful versions.
I’m quite sure they still upload it, but they don’t wait for it to process (and give you hints and tips or whatever).
If you use Wireshark you can see what is going on.
TLS encrypted traffic
To be fair, you can see TLS traffic. It isn’t invisible, just opaque.
A stream suddenly as soon as you paste that goes off to Akamai is certainly suspicious, and probably related.
You can use Charles Proxy with their certificate on windows
Netsh trace
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Neovim meanwhile insert Street Fighter Kai music
Soon we will need a program to make settings in our program.
A “Windows Manager Manager”
