well man, I was scrambling looking for a terminal to actually do something and It was disabled in S mode O.o I will keep that in mind though should I ever be called to mess with another windows machine.

I guess I just didn’t have the patience enough to even get that far with it haha All I could think of was the Netscape thing. It was sooo obvious when i opened edge and got halfway into typing “google chrome” when a giant banner pops up and says “you don’t have to install another browser! please bro! Don’t do it!”

preach it, the capture of people into software ecosystems is getting so out of hand. I was thinking about microsoft vs apple, and while they do the same shit at least it seems to work well lol

I hadn’t either until last night. From what I gathered it disables the installation of any softwares that don’t come from the microsoft store i.e. .EXE files for programs that were downloaded from the browser. Getting out of S mode is as easy as creating a microsoft account. I had no interest in that for a variety of reasons.

I model all of my UI choices off of old(er) school windows. I have a bar, the menu is left. I was a pirate before anything and I learned on windows. There was a point where it made sense that the world used it, I think that time has passed. I really am such a pleb that hardware issues only effect me if it doesn’t work. In this I guess I am saying that the freedom to abuse and break my hardware is important. I don’t want to sell my soul or be told “no”. install the program, I know it was written for windows. I don’t want a microsoft account.

Edit: my drunk ass had said older(er)

I’m a waiter, that one Saturday could be 25% of my monthly income. It should be a national holiday