Man this thread is making me mad so I’mma head out

You can disable so-called essential components and I believe it ships without almost any of the bloat. So essentially you could just take one drive out, or not have it in the first place. Or at least that’s my hope

Unfortunately we’re a game company 😕 so maybe not much of a match. But if anything like that comes up I’ll let you know

My company would be conducive to this. What kind of dev are you? We are not hiring right now but I can pass your resume along if it’s a fit. We’re tiny so it won’t just get lost in the shuffle

It’s ltsc an option for 11 like it was for 10?

That’s funny but I think Son is easily the dumbest billionaire. He’s also the bag-holder for the whole WeWork grift. Got more dollars than brain cells.

More like, “they will be offered part of the proceeds of any further watches we steal.”

I don’t know if I’m personally part of the class, but if I am, as relief I would want an injunction for them to fucking leave me alone, not shares in their operation.

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As a counterpoint to most of the cynicism here, this is how the company I now work for formed. Caveats include: the founder had a lot of money because he had previously worked for a big name Internet company when it was a startup, and we spend almost all of our time as contractors for other studios rather than developing in-house IP.

Ngo monitor is right wing bullshit with zero credibility.

Holy fuck. 373 games. I’m very touched that so many are giving their hard work away to support this cause. Got it and added the extra payment on.

I think it’s fair to acknowledge that everything is a trade-off, and without downvotes, we have to accept the downsides.

I’m not sure that’s true - I’m pretty sure it comes from Japanese and other Asian games like Maple Story, then it got picked up by mobile games companies as they were figuring out monetization there, especially Zynga.

constantly screwed over by apple changing things on their platforms.

This was it for me. Like, you’re going to blame valve because apple keeps pulling the carpet out from under devs and users?

What if you do end up accidentally or negligently sharing this never-to-be shared identity? What if you’re unlucky enough to live somewhere where the government is one of your principal adversaries, like a Palestinian in Israel or a gay person in any number of jurisdictions? And how would you prevent the proliferation of plain ol unsigned data?

No. How about you, are you anti-abortion?

I’m not sure I follow the last “or” clause, but you can bring the criminal liability to Microsoft if you think it should attach for this reason

Lol.

As long as security updates are bundled with antifeature updates, this amounts to “install candy crush or go to jail!”

I’d be fine with what you describe in the second paragraph, but that’s not what’s meant by “forced.” That’s opt-out. Forced is what’s really objectionable, especially when it’s abused, as discussed in the article and elsewhere in these comments.

Even at the risk of Microsoft adding more spyware to my machine, reinstalling apps I deliberately uninstalled, reverting privacy settings I set, strongarming me into using their browser, etc? All of which has been reported.

My hardware, my choice.