All Your File Are Belong To Us
Jan. 23rd, 2016 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogSo. 5:30something this morning, feeding animals, trying to keep the dog from barging in where Emily was sleeping, no caffeine.
Twobor turns on. Asks for my PIN (this is a new-to-10 security Thing they tried to explain as being more secure than a password). Sits with an empty black screen for what seemed to be several minutes.
Then, Words. Looking like 10 when it said "Hi" about a week ago, saying on a grey-black screen, "We've installed updates to your PC."
Mmmkay. But then the screen turns blue on the back and this shows up:
Huh?!? This is looking more like a spoofed ransom demand (and I'm not the only one who thought that).
Next, this:
Sounds more legit. And after a few screens of scare, the desktop appears, with relatively few seeming changes.
Yet there were. It tells me that the start menu now "occasionally" serves up adverts; I find the setting to stop that. Twobor began asking for PINnage every time I wake him from Sleep; fixed THAT. At least I didn't lose any actual programs, which, word is, 10 will do to you, along with it changing back some default privacy settings that everyone with a brain opted out of.
I know, First World Problems. And on a $600 computer I basically bought for 20 bucks. But you have to watch these guys like hawks, or they'll control every decision, add every add-on, and delete the Technologically Immoral without you even knowing.
Twobor turns on. Asks for my PIN (this is a new-to-10 security Thing they tried to explain as being more secure than a password). Sits with an empty black screen for what seemed to be several minutes.
Then, Words. Looking like 10 when it said "Hi" about a week ago, saying on a grey-black screen, "We've installed updates to your PC."
Mmmkay. But then the screen turns blue on the back and this shows up:
Huh?!? This is looking more like a spoofed ransom demand (and I'm not the only one who thought that).
Next, this:
Sounds more legit. And after a few screens of scare, the desktop appears, with relatively few seeming changes.
Yet there were. It tells me that the start menu now "occasionally" serves up adverts; I find the setting to stop that. Twobor began asking for PINnage every time I wake him from Sleep; fixed THAT. At least I didn't lose any actual programs, which, word is, 10 will do to you, along with it changing back some default privacy settings that everyone with a brain opted out of.
I know, First World Problems. And on a $600 computer I basically bought for 20 bucks. But you have to watch these guys like hawks, or they'll control every decision, add every add-on, and delete the Technologically Immoral without you even knowing.
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Date: 2016-01-24 06:56 pm (UTC)It's really not your computer. If it were your computer, there wouldn't be any sloppily-affixed stickers telling you it was Made for Windows.
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Date: 2016-01-26 03:28 am (UTC)