Pretty soon it'll want to use your idle cpu net and disk for undisclosed purposes as part of the EULA.

Ick

There is a special place in hell for you lol.

And call the script "Windows"

Na just throw ads into system logs. Or do what Ubuntu does and throw an advert every time you run apt upgrade.

Thanks for putting this idea forward to the industry.

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EA games have done it already, since early 2000s. Practically any EA BIG game has in-game ads for real brands, all over the overworld billboards

NBA 2K has had ads in it for a while, though I can't remember if they're specifically in the loading screen or not.

you ever play a mobile game on an android phone?

"It's okay when we do it."

If its pre-installed, its typically called "Bloatware".

And I remember having bloatware on my machine going back to the 90s. The first really high quality gaming computer I got was a Sony Vaio and it had tons of bullshit excess software I had to mop out of it before I was ready to really use it.

It's not difficult. Corporations won't put up with this shit and MS knows it, so there are (almost) always documented registry entries or GPO policies you can set to disable this crap.

But you shouldn't fucking have to. Which is why I'm now on Tumbleweed instead of Windows for my daily driver.

I love Linux as much as the next guy, but installing a new OS is not easier than downloading a single program and clicking check boxes. No need to be hyperbolic, Windows is bad enough as it is.

It boggles my mind how many Windows users refuse to switch to something else and insist on patching together Microsoft's intentionally broken excuse of an operating system...

there are literally millions of people who don’t even know or care about knowing how to change desktop background

I'll cede "know", but I heavily dispute "care".

Plenty of Boomers are painfully aware of how awful the internet has become over the last decade. Hell, they got to experience it before the rest of us precisely because folks who never knew how to migrate off AOL or Yahoo got enshitified first.

My own mom hates using the computer in no small part because she takes too much of what she sees at face value and ends up with tons of spyware, bloat, and scams rampaging across her laptop. I have to clean it out for her every few months, and I'm constantly fighting with her over what's actually garbage and what she's convinced she needs.

But the end result is that she just... won't check her email because she hates it. She won't answer her phone because she's afraid of scam callers. She won't trust ANY website, so she doesn't use Amazon or Uber or Netflix.

It isn't that people like my mom don't care. They care immensely, because modern technology has become unusable for people like her.

I think that it's one of the benefits of monopoly. People don't think "I wonder if I should start checking out alternatives?" but instead "Damn, that's annoying. I wonder if there's a way to fix this?" Alternatives never even enter their head. See, there's already a tool for the problem in the post!

Yeah that went out the window when American corpos found out during the pandemic they can literally just keep raising prices for shittier product and Americans just… keep buying it

Welcome to the end of human society, we’re just getting started. Should have chosen a birthdate a few decades earlier, too bad!

Man win11

I don’t think it comes with man pages.

most people pay for it when they buy their computer.