Thanks for ruining the rotating login screen photos you assholes, I actually liked those 
I'm sure everyone alive on Planet Earth already knew about Todd Howard's latest Gamebryo-powered mess
I love that this ad is presented just like a picture of a savannah or a castle
Critical support to Microsoft for making Windows more and more uninhabitable and Linux increasingly sexier for all
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Communism will win, even in cyberspace and software
This type of shit annoyed me enough that I'm swapping most of my computers over to linux. Yeah, I can use tweaks that may or may not work to stop a lot of the bullshit, like ads in the search bar, but when they constantly upgrade my fucking computer and revert the changes I've made, or keep advertising the newest windows I don't want to switch to, or force links to open in edge, it's become too much to deal with.
I installed the newest debian, and it feels like all the promising stuff that was on the horizon years ago, the last time I tried to switch, has matured and gelled together into something quite good. Btrfs snapshots are awesome. Steam works pretty well. Flatpaks work great, and when did gnome get good? It's nice. I like it.
Anything owned by a corporation will just shove fucking ads everywhere and try to lock you into some proprietary user-hostile garbage and make everything awful, eventually.
I'm currently setting up a pihole to get rid of as much bullshit as possible on every other device in my house, too.
Yeah, I followed this guide: https://youtu.be/e_EfmKdP2ng?si=hpokllOb_H3Da2X6
As an idiot who just built my first machine, do you have any links on what that is and how to do it? Everything i'm finding on google either seems kind of sus or is from a decade ago, but i sure would like to have 0 ads in my life.
Holy fucking shit it's forcing an ad on you now? That is so fucking gross.
When I first upgraded to Windows 10 on the very last day you still could upgrade from Windows 7 for free, it was just pictures of beautiful landscapes or ancient monuments along with a short blurb about them where the PLAY STARFIELD WITH PC GAME PASS text is in this picture. I didn't specifically turn that login screen on but I liked it so much that I kept it on. Then, maybe a year ago(?) the text stopped being about the image and turned into a generic blurb for various Microsoft services, most often Game Pass.
This is the first time I remember the image itself just being a straight up ad for something. I'm sure they were feeling clever because it's an atmospheric piece of concept art that kind of looks like the kind of photos they typically have in the rotation for these login screens.
I'm sure they were feeling clever because it's an atmospheric piece of concept art that kind of looks like the kind photos they typically have in the rotation for these login screens.
Yeah this is exactly how they got whoever is in charge of these to capitulate and include it.
Slippery slope from here on out, if they've done one explicit ad, more will follow.
I googled starfield ad login screen and this is not even the only Starfield™®© image in rotation
FYI for everyone who hates this shit, ads won't show up on the login screen if you enable secure login (Ctrl + Alt + Del at login screen). Press Win + R, type in netplwiz, go to the Advanced tab and check the box "Require users to press Ctrl + Alt + Delete". Viola, no more ads.
Part of the reason I left Windows for good was the increasing number of extremely silly and obscure workarounds I had to employ to keep the desktop environment sane. The start menu showing online results almost did me in, but I was able to find random powershell scripts to block that. A failed Windows 10 upgrade was the straw that broke this camel's back. Fast forward a few years and the stuff I see now about Windows 11 looks downright jokerfying.
I can tell you from experience that you absolutely do not want to explore planets in Starfield. That is the most boring part of a fairly boring game.
