β² 1165 βΌ Just relax (thelemmy.club) submitted 5 months ago by Lisk91@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 93 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[β] Bongles@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 months ago (2 children) disabled by toggling a single switch in a top level settings menu. Until windows decides you really should have that switched on and flips it back after an update. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [β] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago That was my main issue with Windows. Iβm not here to fight with my computer, especially not with a corporation controlling MY computer. permalink fedilink source parent [β] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) I have literally never seen this occur outside of: it attempting to reset the default PDF viewer multiple times twice when the entire group of settings related to cortana/internet search from the taskbar changed and they didn't attempt to map previous choices to the new settings That was over the course of a literal decade, most of it with a day job working IT and sysadmin in a Windows environment. If you've got more hard evidence of MS doing this I'd love to see it, but as far as I can tell this comes from the same place that has resulted in every support thread saying you need to run "SFC /scannow". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago My PC used to turn itself on occasionally after I put it to sleep at night and went to bed. Over a span of weeks, I'd track down the latest reason for starting up and disable it until it would only wake on keyboard or by hitting the power button. Except I'd have to reapply them because it would just randomly be enabled again. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 months ago That was my main issue with Windows. Iβm not here to fight with my computer, especially not with a corporation controlling MY computer. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) I have literally never seen this occur outside of: it attempting to reset the default PDF viewer multiple times twice when the entire group of settings related to cortana/internet search from the taskbar changed and they didn't attempt to map previous choices to the new settings That was over the course of a literal decade, most of it with a day job working IT and sysadmin in a Windows environment. If you've got more hard evidence of MS doing this I'd love to see it, but as far as I can tell this comes from the same place that has resulted in every support thread saying you need to run "SFC /scannow". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago My PC used to turn itself on occasionally after I put it to sleep at night and went to bed. Over a span of weeks, I'd track down the latest reason for starting up and disable it until it would only wake on keyboard or by hitting the power button. Except I'd have to reapply them because it would just randomly be enabled again. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago My PC used to turn itself on occasionally after I put it to sleep at night and went to bed. Over a span of weeks, I'd track down the latest reason for starting up and disable it until it would only wake on keyboard or by hitting the power button. Except I'd have to reapply them because it would just randomly be enabled again. permalink fedilink source parent
