Oh yes, that's really convenient for home users. "Install this thing on several computers and keep it in sync or you're not qualified to have a network"
And then if they don't like someone they should revoke their word. And they should make it so words with certain endings are delegated to other countries who can also revoke your word if they don't like you.
Ask the Zig people, who just started relying on undocumented unstable Windows behaviour intentionally due to some kind of religious belief: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/issues/31131
I agree. Why should the person who bought a computer be allowed to own it? Phone ecosystems got this the right way - the company that made the device owns it, and the person who bought it does not!
Don't speak in empty slogans, connect it to the article/comment!
Some app does some thing, then the OS reverts it! Where is "you" and "own" in this process? Do you own the "C:\Windows\SYSBCKUP" folder? Do you own the undo process?
Would your "ownership" rights increase if instead the OS didn't waste any space, but simply blocked downgrades of system components without user warning/intervention? Or had an even better process?
We are going to have that now in a couple of months regardless. So it won't matter if Taiwan's manufacturing base gets disrupted, the hardware will have already effectively stopped.
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