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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonechicken rule
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    4 days ago

    Insisting on using a system that is well documented to make shit up out of nowhere just means you’re both lazy and a poor decision maker.

    Especially when there’s no inherent gain from its use like corporate executives solely trying to reduce their biggest expense (payroll) without any other consideration.



  • This right here is a perfect example of how misinformation spreads so easily, intentionally or not.

    Most people simply don’t pay much attention to details about things that aren’t directly affecting them. Signal and insecure were the things taken away from that debacle, not that it was entirely Hegseth that fucked up.

    Not that the issue boiled down to simply adding someone to a thread they shouldn’t have been in, which happens all the time to people with regular text messaging. We expect that government officials should be verifying what they’re doing when handling classified info. The fact it was a modified and insecure version of the app wasn’t actually part of the issue. And that Hegseth fucked it up a second time didn’t even register apparently.





  • To be fair most of the “bloat” is the flashy stuff that gets consumers to buy things. The extras that enterprise and some power users don’t care about because they want to use their own thing instead.

    A lot of that “bloat” is the easy integrated stuff the average person can set up and use themselves following a couple login and setup screens without having to think about it. Things like OneDrive for easy automated document backup, backing up device licenses to an account versus needing to keep track of a license key if they need to reinstall, integrated find my device services, etc.

    All of those functions are expected in a modern OS by the average user, so they are ready to go out of the box with a little setup. It’s the same way Apple handles similar services on OSX and iOS, and Google does with ChromeOS. Not every user will use those services, and there are alternatives of course. Nothing prevents you from uninstalling OneDrive, or most other pre-installed programs or components. I got rid of those immediately after installing Windows 11 because I use other services, and I haven’t seen them since.