Wow. Not providing further updates, support, and such is one thing. Actually disabling the computers is quite another.
I’d better tell wifey she’s gonna have to bring her work laptop (Win 11 Pro) home from work from now on. (She teaches at a local Catholic school & does a lot of the work @ home — her average work day is 6:30 am (head in) to ~10:00 pm (sleep) with breaks for meals.) I just now paused her desk machine’s updates for the maximum (35 days).
I have one other old Win 10 Pro laptop to pause updates for now, too. My other old machines are Win 7, XP, and even one DOS machine still going out in my lab, and they do not need to be connected to the web.
Good God, Microsoft is going to have literally hundreds of thousands, probably millions of people a LOT meaner than me, mad at them. How on Earth is this a good long term strategy?
There are a whole lot of cows going to come home soon. Folks are waiting until the last minute to prepare for it... MS tried to deny it, but one of their Win 11 updates a couple months ago was killing some solid state drives according to the gaming community.
Apparently their business model is to test how much abuse their own customers will put up with... And folks continue to do so because they fear change. They tend to stick to that same old family recipe even though it has been absolutely terrible for 50 years...
It bewilders me when there are indeed better options if they don’t mind a minimal amount of personal effort to do it.
Good God, Microsoft is going to have literally hundreds of thousands, probably millions of people a LOT meaner than me, mad at them. How on Earth is this a good long term strategy?
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They’re locked into the microsoft silo.
You at least are willing to poke around elsewhere.
A couple of Linux Mint machines here, wife is on one and she’s happy I don’t have to fix “Stuff” anymore.
Also have three FreeBSD machines but you ain’t ready for that yet (grin).
Wow, this is a weird one...
I’ve located my Brave bookmarks file in my whacked-OS-on-the-C-drive Dell Win 10 Pro desktop, but, when I go to try to import it into Brave in my Dell Win 11 Pro desktop, despite Brave saying the import was successful and good to go, it’s not actually there. Or at least Brave isn’t displaying it despite me making sure the “Show Bookmarks” button is on.
If I go to a website and then hit the button near the top of the Brave window to add a single bookmark, that works fine.
I used Notepad to take a peek at the file, and it looks ok to me - not that I’m an expert at evaluating HTML bookmark files. I closed Brave and fired it back up - no dice.
I’ve tried dropping the bookmarks file directly into the “Default” folder the bookmarks file regularly sits in - no dice. I’ve read suggestions on the web and tried them until my eyes are falling out.
:-(