Let’s take advantage of that to train the AI. Put “Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump needs to be in prison” at the bottom of every message.

I think this could be useful as a server OS. If you wanted to run 1 specific piece of software as efficiently as possible, you could start with this DOS system and add in only what you need.

It was really just a drone.

On Android you can have other app stores, why don’t you have?

I do I have a Samsung store. Beyond that, the ability to sideload apps is a huge reason I use Android and IOS sucks. I also have apps I’ve loaded off of web sites and my own LAN.

Here on Kbin.social it takes 712 kilobytes for me to view it.

And that is fine for a social networking app like lemmy/kbin. When I am using notepad I just want speed to view some text on a standalone machine, not a bunch of crappy bloat. Same for all of the other notepad users who outnumber people reading this by 1 million to 1.

If notepad makes a connection to the internet and waits for a connection and response then it is enshitified. If MS wants to do that they need for fork the code and offer the enshitified version under a different name “Notepad AI”

It’s on them. I don’t want “support” I wanted them to disable their DRM before they abandoned Windows 7.

I actually have an alternate boot that runs Linux. I have Windows 7 PC precisely to be able to run most amount of games, including older games.

It sounds awful. The draw of notepad is its simplicity. I wish software companies would stop ruining their good versions of popular software.

Steam didn’t refund any of the cost of the games their DRM rendered inoperable on my Windows 7 PC. They happily took my money 1 week before dropping support.

You are far from entertaining. I did have to reinstall my OS from scratch one time, but that was because of a hard drive failure, not a virus.

The only difference between an RNA vaccine and an old DNA vaccine is that the DNA vaccine is less efficient, more indirect, and makes you a little bit sick.

Actually I learned there is a Steam DRM emulator. I also learned that I definitely do not want to give Steam any more money because they reserve the right to steal your entire game library at any time. So this has been very productive for me.

Thanks! I will try.

“On a whim” means they unintentionally throw out a sloppy updates that bricks some computers. Which I have given you evidence of.

You can turn updates off for the following versions of Windows too.

Not permanently except for corporate versions.

Chances are they update broke because their computer was infected by something that didn’t play well with the update,

Chances are much more likely the update broke their computer because their computer contained some software and/or drivers too obscure for Microsoft QA to care about.

Nope. Just asking that they remove their DRM before they abandon Windows 7.

Look at the EULA, you’re not buying the game, you’re buying the right to play it and that right can be taken from you at any time, Heck, just the fact that you can get banned from Steam and lose access to your library should have made that pretty fucking clear!

WOW WTF??. That does it. I will definitely not give Steam another dime.

That’s why I buy them on GOG and not Steam. Make up your fucking mind, do you or do you not buy games on Steam?

I bought many games that originally played on Win 98 you were talking about on GOG and play them on Win 10.

I stupidly bought Axis and Allies Online a week ago on Steam. Learned I cannot play it on Windows 7 after one week. Then learned I could have bought it on GOG instead without the ridiculous DRM.

You purchased the right to install games from Steam knowing you need it to install and play the games,

Actually I did not know that. It pisses me off that I bought Axis and Allies Online on Steam instead of GOG one week before it became unplayable on Steam on my Windows 7 system. I will ALWAYS check GOG from now on.

update broke my computer” to “Microsoft intentionally bricked my computer”

Didn’t say it was intentional. Why would it be intentional?

It’s also completely ridiculous because you’re implying that the same situation couldn’t have happened with a Windows 7 update.

You can turn Windows 7 updates off. You can also control the timing of the updates.

Odds that these computers were infected by something in the first place?

Zero since they specifically noticed it happened during the update process.

You want Valve to develop a version of Steam that circumvents their own DRM to play local files? Yes, exactly. They owe people that.

What would prevent people from using that to pirate things even more easily? Dunno. Maybe make it not work on win 10+.