{"id":59150,"date":"2023-04-02T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=97a1791d8cebbcb49e665beeccfa9da4"},"modified":"2023-04-02T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T23:41:00","slug":"the-day-windows-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59150","title":{"rendered":"The day Windows died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/135980\/the-day-windows-died\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Using Windows is starting to induce the same feeling that using the Web without an ad-blocker has had for a long time, or coming face to face with someones' toolbar-infested browser did in the bad old days.   That very clear sensation that the technology is working for someone-not-you.<\/div><blockquote><p>So, there is basically little you can do with Windows out of the box but buy subscriptions and log into pre-installed social media apps. One thing I knew right on the spot: That&rsquo;s not an environment I want my kid to make his first steps &ldquo;on a real computer.&rdquo; Not in a hundred years. Never.<\/p><p>Some people recommended tools to me which can be used to switch most of those things off. But honestly: How do you trust a system (or its manufacturer) if you can&rsquo;t even know if those settings, which you deliberately chose, persist? What if I remove app x for a reason, and it suddenly pops up again after the next Windows update? Or the news section in the search menu? <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasbandt.com\/the-day-windows-died\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">No way<\/a>. I can no longer see a good use case for it, at least not in my home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows 11 is a dystopian experience.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, there is basically little you can do with Windows out of the box but buy subscriptions and log &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}