Oh, I installed two OSes last year: Ubuntu on my then daily driver (it still is my private one) and a clean Windows ten on my son's laptop. That used to be my old back-up and had my old company account on it, in addition to his school teams account. I tried to convert it to a local admin and throw his educational MS Office license on it. It ended with buying a second market Win10 license (I bought two, only one worked) and a clean, new install. Everything else just failed. I'll never use a MS Account for anything again.

That expends to MS Office subscriptions as well. I once bought one through (stupid, I know) GoDaddy as an extension to my domain mail service. It never worked, not once. I still paid for it, so. The user account didn't even exist on MS's end. Only way to get rid of it was to cancel the credit card behind it. MS stopped bothering me after two months of unpaid subscriptions...

> Now I have to deal with an accountname that contains multiple characters that make WSL interactions with the windows paths a game of Russian roulette with shell quoting bullets.

Really? For me, when I install Windows with a Microsoft account, it makes my username just something like "nyusz" rather than "nyuszika7h".

Can't you just make a new local admin account and delete all traces of the other account, including in the registry?

The word “just” is doing some heavy lifting there…

So heavy I abandoned and went for a clean install and new Win10 license. Turned it was faster and easier.

Unlike Meta/Alphabet, Microsoft actually has something that’s not shameful

That is a pretty low bar to have in tech. A few years ago spying on your users was seen as a grave sin. This was changed by large tech corporations that groomed their developers respectively so that they can justify it to themselves.

So being the least bad tech company isn't too convincing.

Who thinks spying on users is fine nowadays?

Off the top of my head, Project Zero?

I never forgave M$ for IE6 though, so I’m biased. A new generation is being lulled into thing they’re the good guys.

You don't think any of those are "not shameful"?

- Google search

- Google maps

- YouTube

- FB Messenger/WhatsApp

- Instagram

- Oculus

- FB Marketplace

To be honest, yeah, I can't decide which one is the biggest anti-user shitshow. My personal favorite is YT which likes to make at least one universally disliked decision per year. But I'm sure everyone has their own.

Facebook marketplace is full of stolen goods boosted by meth heads that they won't do anything about.

And Facebook groups are full of posts advertising impersonation services aimed to bypass background checks at jobs, notably delivery and ridesharing services, for people with criminal background and people that do not pass e-verify.

I have reported them but Facebook won't do anything about them.

All the sweet monthly active users and the ad revenue!

Where do you think they got the motivation to form monopolies in their respective areas?

>embrace

I saw this comment and began to wonder if it was necessary to make a throwaway to make your comment. But then I clicked the name and realized this account is used more than some random throwaway.

Almost had me asking hn if we were abusing throwaway accounts.