Deth

It’s so rare that I boot into windows that I forget about the annoyances like this one until I get rudely reminded of them. The other day, I accidentally clicked the down arrow before enter when my boot menu came up, and it booted into Windows 10. Thankfully, now that it’s on the SSD drive it’s not that slow painful ten to fifteen minute boot process before I can reboot. It just takes a few seconds to get the login now. I shouldn’t have had to buy the SSD for an OS that I use so rarely, but it is what it is.

I went to get my coffee and by the time I got upstairs the login screen was up. The first annoyance is when I start typing my pin, it eats the first letter while the text box pops up. It’s been that way for a while now, but for my muscle memory the text box was always showing, so I just started typing it. There’s a slight delay before that text box shows, too. Like everything with Microsoft Windows, really. Things should have delays with an eight-core processor unless you’re doing something very CPU intensive.

Upon logging is when, I was treated to full-screen ads that seemed like they would have to do with security updates or something. I got one for Windows 11 which my computer is not new enough to run. Then there’s the one drive one and Microsoft account one. Can’t forget about the one to enable, a bunch of crap in Edge one that I don’t want or use.

I remember when Microsoft got a lot of crap for Internet Explorer and there was all the monopoly talk. Now that’s Chrome, but it’s ignored. A browser created by an advertising company? What could go wrong? That’s going off on a different tangent, though.

The thing that gets me most about these is they’re , like so many other things these days, not a way to say no. It’s always “remind me later” or “not now. I have not spent any time searching for a way to turn them off completely, but there should be one. I also know not to bother to search because ads and dark patterns using ads are all the rage these days.

Everything seems to be getting loaded down with ads and user hostile methods of showing them. They try anyway they can to trick you into thinking it’s not an ad.

I am so grateful that FreeBSD works for me and is my daily driver. It does what I tell it to do and nothing more. None of this pointless bloat nonsense. I would much rather have to do a bit of research and learning to make things work the way I’d prefer them to work, then have to figure out how to get around annoyances like these ads. I like that I can make things work my way instead of trying to make myself adapt to a constantly changing target.