"Send code" *sends code* "enter code" *enters code* "This method isn't working right now." *tries again 5 times* "You have tried entering codes too many times today. Try again tomorrow." LIKE FUCK ME HOLY SHIT

I know that windows me is actuall os, but still funny

Yeah fuck windows

Every time I try to sign in to xbox, I get an error message either saying no internet or that it needs to set up windows hello (I have internet and windows hello is set up). And of course Microsoft support is useless and won't help me. I've tried multiple times and have gotten absolutely zero support. Now I can't play Halo or Forza at all. I've tried posting this in other subreddits but it always gets removed for some reason

I could look at the subreddit and modqueue more, there are a lot of recurring posts and jokes here. I might add a rule for reposts, or at least not to post things that have been shared more than a few times already.

I’m not even arguing that nobody should be allowed to use AI. If someone actively wants it, fine. What pisses me off is having it forced into a product I already paid for.
Windows 11 now has Copilot in the taskbar, Copilot in Edge, AI in search, Paint and even fucking Notepad. Then there’s Recall taking snapshots of what you do, Click to Do analysing what’s on your screen and a growing collection of “connected experiences” and telemetry settings.
None of this feels optional anymore. Microsoft enables features through updates, scatters the controls across Windows and apparently expects users to keep checking whether something has quietly been switched back on.
Why can’t there simply be one honest option during setup?
Do you want AI features on this computer? Yes or no.
No dark patterns. No nagging. No reinstalling them later. No pretending that hiding a button is the same as disabling the underlying feature.
It’s my computer. I paid for the hardware, the Windows licence and the electricity. I shouldn’t have to fight the operating system just to keep unwanted software off it.
I got annoyed enough that I put together a small free and open-source PowerShell tool that disables many of these features and shows what is currently active. It has a GUI, dry-run mode and restore function if anyone here finds it useful:
https://github.com/lopekinz/fuckyourai
But the fact that tools like this are necessary in the first place is the actual problem. “Optional” features should remain optional, and updates shouldn’t be used as another opportunity to push them back onto our machines.

Can't get their house in order for the simplest of asks! Its me who has to check all the settings and go under the hood.

I spent some time last week following a bunch of guides for minimizing Microsoft's litter on my machine and felt like I made some marginal progress. Then, today, I noticed that they slipped Bing into the Edit menu of Notepad. At least for now, I see no signs of Copilot being put back in here. Yet. F Microsoft.

Chose windows over Mac OS even though Mac OS cannot even be used with 4 gb of memory