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Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows (arstechnica.com)
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[–] nycvin@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I was trying to figure out why someone would install a third party driver for a monitor, of all things, and then I read this

Further, Microsoft allows Universal Windows Platform device apps “to automatically install when the user connects their device to the PC”

Is this for real? Does it at least prompt with a pop-up first?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let me guess...

Users never read prompts, so we have removed them

Kinda like

Users never update, so we have forced that

[–] OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, I get forcing users to update.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

If you could have nothing but pure intentions.. that's still a bad way to go about getting users to update. Users choose to not update to avoid getting fucked by Microslop.

[–] Carl@anarchist.nexus 7 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Users choose not to update to avoid rebooting. The average user barely even knows what an OS is. They just know that if they reboot, they’ll lose their 347 Emotional Support Chrome tabs. Lemmy tends to be fairly tech literate, which means conversations about tech often involve the Average Familiarity problem:

Xkcd comic 2501, titled “Average Familiarity”. It involves two expert geologists discussing the average person’s familiarity with their field of study. They vastly overestimate the average person.

[–] nycvin@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Emotional Support Chrome tabs is my new favorite thing of the day

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 hours ago

Chrome (and Firefox and probably every other major browser) has reopened tabs on restart for years now.

Other programs, not so much. Windows did add the feature to reopen programs fairly recently, but most of the time that means just starting the program, not actually restoring your session.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

XKCD 2501 is second nature to us internauts so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows XKCD 1053 (Ten Thousand) and XKCD 386 (Duty Calls).

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