Soloist wrote: ↑Thu Dec 16, 2021 6:12 pm
I still have a computer with XP and 7 on it. I have no intention of upgrading to Windows 11 and would very likely downgrade it or switch to Linux.
Windows 11 requires a live connection for installing from what I heard as well as a Microsoft profile to log in.
Microsoft is advertising on Windows 10, I assume it will be worse on 11. Windows advertisement also include LGBTQ propaganda. I see no practical reason to be in the first wave of upgrades as its going to have many teething issues still.
I also have an XP computer (actually, we also have a laptop with Windows 98 SE on it, but haven't used it for a very long time). I keep the XP Dell because I have both hardware (very expensive stuff) and software that doesn't run in Win 7 at all, or poorly. My main computer (this one) is Win 7. But as a system builder, I've been forced to learn to cope with OS 10, and now I got stuck with working on OS 11. What happened was a customer wanted an HP laptop, so I specifically ordered it with OS 10 Pro. That was Aug 18th. HP delayed so long (due to components shortages) that when it came early this month, it had OS 11 on it. I could have wiped it and installed 10, but I would have had to purchase a license for it, and so I had to make do. I'm trying to sell this business, and thought I could do it before the 11 thing came up and bit me, but it didn't happen that way. Now I have lots of hours of work invested in developing the configuration for locking down OS 11. So I'm stuck with working on them, just to recoop some of this extra time.
Just this morning my wife's iphone had a rather threatening note about accepting an update. Something like "If you don't want this update, then you will need to return the phone." (I have a Google Pixel cell phone, and I am constantly bothered with the updates, but none have had that threatening tone.) I walk around through the house at night - when all of the lights should be off - and there are LED lights on everywhere. The cook stove can now be monitored or turned on or off over the internet, if you get the app on your phone. Etc. etc. I sometimes really wish for the life in the village, where when you turned off the single small light that ran off of an auto battery (charged by a couple of what would now be considered very small solar panels), it was totally dark. We could see the stars there, satellites, and the 'light pollution' from Manaus, around 300 miles away. My life has been invaded by technology.
Congregation: Gospel Haven Mennonite Fellowship, Benton, Ohio (Holmes Co.) a split from Beachy-Amish Mennonite.
Personal heritage & general theological viewpoint: conservative Mennonite Brethren.