Weekend Open Forum: What is your New Year's resolution for 2017?

[stansfield]

Continue to avoid windows 10 like the plague!!
An intrusive, spying, sales pushing OS full of useless junk is not for me.

 

[hood6558]

Continue to avoid windows 10 like the plague!!
An intrusive, spying, sales pushing OS full of useless junk is not for me.

We love guys like you! It's so quaint that you believe you are safe and anonymous by using an older OS like 7, XP, or even a Linux distro - you are only making it easier to track your every keystroke! By the way, we target people who use VPNs, because we figure if you're hiding, you must be doing something wrong! We don't care about the movies you've pirated, or your porn collection (unless you're into kiddie porn)- we're looking for bigger fish, like terrorists, online scammers, and con artists who target the elderly and other technology-challenged people, like iPhone users. Big Brother is watching...

 

[stansfield]

We love guys like you! It's so quaint that you believe you are safe and anonymous by using an older OS like 7, XP, or even a Linux distro - you are only making it easier to track your every keystroke! By the way, we target people who use VPNs, because we figure if you're hiding, you must be doing something wrong! We don't care about the movies you've pirated, or your porn collection (unless you're into kiddie porn)- we're looking for bigger fish, like terrorists, online scammers, and con artists who target the elderly and other technology-challenged people, like iPhone users. Big Brother is watching...

WOW! Who wound you up?

 

[TekGun]

Get rid of all the stuff I don't really need.

 

[MoeJoe]

Fully Embrace SSD's and ditch the disc ...

 

[hood6558]

WOW! Who wound you up?

I don't know - who (or what) made you so paranoid? Whatever it is, you are avoiding the best OS Microsoft ever made. What ever gave you the idea that you have ANY privacy online? If you're doing something wrong or illegal. just DON'T DO IT ONLINE! If You're not. then what are you worried about? And yes, the NSA has already stated that people who use VPNs are considered suspicious, because if you're hiding, you must have something to hide...so stop trying to make out that it's cool and tech-savvy to use an obsolete OS - if you're scared, say you're scared, and then get some education...

 

[TheDreams]

this one is a CS:GO pro (well, maybe )

I am bloody awful at CSGO haha

 

[stansfield]

I don't know - who (or what) made you so paranoid? Whatever it is, you are avoiding the best OS Microsoft ever made. What ever gave you the idea that you have ANY privacy online? If you're doing something wrong or illegal. just DON'T DO IT ONLINE! If You're not. then what are you worried about? And yes, the NSA has already stated that people who use VPNs are considered suspicious, because if you're hiding, you must have something to hide...so stop trying to make out that it's cool and tech-savvy to use an obsolete OS - if you're scared, say you're scared, and then get some education...

I don't know - who (or what) made you so paranoid? Whatever it is, you are avoiding the best OS Microsoft ever made. What ever gave you the idea that you have ANY privacy online? If you're doing something wrong or illegal. just DON'T DO IT ONLINE! If You're not. then what are you worried about? And yes, the NSA has already stated that people who use VPNs are considered suspicious, because if you're hiding, you must have something to hide...so stop trying to make out that it's cool and tech-savvy to use an obsolete OS - if you're scared, say you're scared, and then get some education...

Why are you so angry just because I don't like W10? Looks like the paranoia is coming from your end. Just go and lie down in a darkened room and you'll feel better. "get some education"?, reckon my science degree is enough!

 

[hood6558]

@stansfield - not angry, just tired of people who post on subjects they know nothing about. Science degree? Which "science", basket weaving? I don't care if it's a master's degree in nuclear physics - why do people with college degrees think that makes them an expert on everything?
So you read somewhere that Windows 10 is full of spyware? - and that made you an expert in that field too? I repeat, get some education, and no, I'm not talking about that crap they're pushing in schools and universities.

 

[stansfield]

Aerodynamics actually plus some other quals. and working with computers since they first came into use more years ago than I wish to remember!.
Yeah, I sympathize with you, I see you are an auto tech, I can imagine the problems, the grease stains, the smell of oil and diesel, the skinned knuckles when the spanner slips, the hydraulic fluid drops in the eye and the customers who don't appreciate all the work you do for them.
Meanwhile there are those college educated guys with the big houses, their fancy cars and their arm candy who never got their hands dirty and yet they earn megabucks. Life is a real ***** and then you die! Fortunately I am one of the latter and quite frankly I might live in Fl but I wouldn't let you near my Porsche!
Get a life man! I write a one liner saying I dislike w10 and I get all this aggressive rubbish from you like I'm your worst enemy!
Geez, its only an OS after all and you know the funniest thing? On your details you say your OS is windows 8 pro x64 which is exactly the same as my main system. I've had enough of this nonsense and I'm outa here! Live long and prosper.