Many reasons to put pressure on Microsoft and refrain from using their products.
use Linux, don't throw away your old computer.
sincerely. Tom Ash
use Linux, don't throw away your old computer.
sincerely. Tom Ash
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00:00we today we're going to talk about another yet another few reasons why you should consider
00:08leaving microsoft that to punish or at least put pressure on that company
00:17large companies exist you know that i live in north america you know and they have resources
00:23they i'm sure they do good stuff sometimes but you know sometimes they go unhinged
00:31i remember to not to deviate from the subject but i remember in 2007 and 2008
00:40the banks of large banks destroyed the country and none of those
00:45criminals went to jail not even a single not a single one
00:50uh until they got bonuses so this is another this is a similar example of a large company that is
01:01embedded itself in our corporate financial and educational institutions where they demand
01:09uh that people use their products in many ways not by decree perhaps but they demand by tying those
01:25services all together so the company itself or the individual cannot leave microsoft or at least have
01:34to have one machine that is windows based i i give you an example schools used to be like they want
01:46especially like in if you take online classes many many schools around the country use
01:54lockdown browser which only exists on windows and apple i think maybe apple
02:01uh some uh some uh some uh some trivial stuff like uh if you take a writing class they uh they require
02:15that you edit your document with microsoft not with libra office or open office or all those wonderful
02:23programs out there nope it have to be a font from microsoft that doesn't exist of course there's a way
02:30work around it you can always work around it you can always edit your document you know it was online
02:38versions but but still that's like a hassle a hurdle to force the students to buy window machines
02:48and now again in this month the majority of consumer computers will be
02:58not eligible for updates for windows 11. so you'll talk about massive e-waste
03:05in the time where our economy is not doing great and of course we know the trump and the tariffs and all
03:12this so those are the computers can skyrocket which perhaps mean means more new computers with high prices
03:23meaning meaning meaning more profit margin margins for microsoft and companies like that so
03:34do not don't be a mule take in charge of yourself and i will i'm gonna list few reasons that you and i know
03:43about but just serve as a reminder that this company need to be
03:53punished in many ways a good company no matter what kind of business you are small or big
03:59should be based on services to the consumers not the other way around where they
04:05force consumers to do what they want
04:09so it is uh let's talk about the first thing i'm going to talk about is the onedrive
04:16you know i actually today or yesterday i no today i opened this computer and i deleted the onedrive
04:23from it from it um it took me a while but i always like this try to disconnect the onedrive from it
04:32but sometimes you forget sometimes update happen and will connect itself somehow i'll find it connected
04:39somehow so the onedrive is a very very good example about how and what microsoft think of you
04:51the consumer it's customer it's customer that's supposed to provide services
05:00the customer that made bill gate and the like very very rich you know so it showed a lack of respect
05:10but for example if i there are many uh services similar to onedrive
05:16that um you don't have they don't come embedded in your computer and definitely you have to you have
05:24to actively activate them in order for you to to use them and most people for example the onedrive
05:35most people log in on the computer and now especially with the the new order from microsoft with
05:43uh only uh no longer they're gonna use passwords they're just gonna use those biometrics and uh with the
05:56ptm you know so you're gonna be always hooked to the computer through your account
06:03so you're most likely for most people the onedrive gonna be automatically on
06:09on which mean whatever your stuff you put on your desktop and other files it will transfer to microsoft
06:19and all the sudden microsoft will actually only give you two gig of uh of space all the sudden they might
06:28like uh and i'm sure that that will probably work on older people well i am older but older uninformed
06:36people will tell them you have to pay this and that and some kind of scare tactic which show
06:44the depth that this company is going to milk its consumer so this is number one issue you know with
06:57with microsoft with windows especially the product windows because microsoft is more moving into
07:06agile and this these services that online services that they are they are you know hoping schools and
07:17universities and businesses too you know so and they want everybody to be online
07:26hook to them and anyone who lost microsoft account they probably will tell you that there is no customer
07:35service when you need them okay another reason let's go look at this so this is the the current as we speak the current
07:44uh the current usage of my computer uh uh the current usage of my computer uh despite the fact that you know
07:56you know it have my cpu for some reason is 10. if i was running linux i tell you it would be close to zero but
08:06you know and this is a very good cpu i have on this computer this computer is relatively strong
08:11um uh let's say the ram i have seven out of 16 and i'm not really running games or anything
08:25you know and you know so and and of course the bloat windows is famous for bloat uh id bloated this uh
08:36uh program that i have on this machine uh about like a year ago and uh it's still a hefty program in many
08:46ways um so and but the reason for this that ram to be blotted like the like that is uh always a mystery
08:58to me and my my hunch and this is not something i know but my hunch is because microsoft is always
09:07pulling data from your computer it doesn't have to be data like from the onedrive there's many other
09:13data parameters locations uh god knows maybe search history whatever it is you know so not a data that
09:25we think of not every data you think of is like pictures of all files and stuff like that that you
09:30save so this is another reason why you should avoid and try to get from under the
09:43the yoke let me use this educated word the yoke of microsoft you know uh oh yeah glitches and bad
09:54performances uh any anyone of course who uh too large uh and uh uh anyone you who have windows most of us
10:12all of us have probably had windows uh have windows or had windows at some point of our life we'll get
10:18the glitches the freezes the blue screens you know and these things on despite they did get better a
10:27little bit but they really didn't you know like they are not you know too large
10:34uh fill up with use i don't know i couldn't like word it somewhere else but if you open multiple multiple
10:44applications and even if your computer is good it will if after a while it just jams you know
10:54uh and use all your resources so like this is
10:58uh this is like another reason why you should avoid this place okay okay i'm gonna talk about lack
11:10of privacy and your choices we talked about the onedrive and the choices about onedrive this is an
11:15example of lack of respect to your choices and i'm gonna talk about privacy and i'm gonna ask you
11:23you uh who you trust more you put your password at home with you or you have your password with someone
11:42else and if the answer is latter then you know i can't argue with you but i find that
11:54uh especially a few years ago when i start to switch to linux i find that it's i feel more secure
12:04knowing that my computer and i'm using my own computer my own password nobody know my password
12:13of course you can always argue somebody can steal your password well if somebody steal your password
12:20most likely if they're gonna steal it again these days they're gonna steal it from the cloud somebody
12:24live with you gonna steal your password probably they're gonna you know your pen from microsoft you
12:30know because you live with them so they're gonna use a pen you know and all this and this is uh
12:38this is unnecessary precaution that in my opinion make your
12:49make your in putting your information in the hand of a company not even another individual you're talking
12:56about like a company large company that's most likely outsourced everything in it you know how those
13:03companies make money putting your information somewhere like that with glitches and uh and this is
13:11a very old company so imagine the bureaucracy and all this putting your password which is the door for
13:19you you you you to access your computer in the head of a company is a foolish thing to do you know
13:32uh and of course i'm gonna i'm gonna say ask anyone who who had his his or her microsoft account
13:41hacked you know no customer support and i i i talked from my my co-worker uh he's a gamer
13:52and this something happened to him and he had to basically buy a new window by sin and start the whole
14:00thing again he they didn't help him at all you know when somebody hacked into his he had to go to his
14:08banks and change stuff but but uh okay and i'm gonna say the last one perhaps maybe not uh not gonna be uh
14:22pleasing for many people but like this is we're gonna talk about the microsoft involved in the genocide in
14:33gaza and using the ai artificial intelligence basically i assume phone data to target people mostly civilians
14:49to target the cluster of people also you know and this is very shameful for any company you know to do so
15:00and uh if you have uh if you if all the other reasons i i i mentioned not good enough for you maybe the moral
15:12reason will be good take charge of your of your computing uh behavior take charge of your computer save yourself money
15:24if you can if you can if you can and i know it's very hard to switch to operating system like linux
15:34but this is my you know you can try other ones of course the apple and all this they are more expensive
15:41but but if you are on a budget if you want true freedom where you truly own your computer
15:50uh switch to linux stay away from windows if you are a student if you are uh somebody who work with
16:03a company i actually mentioned that the company i work for i asked them about the dilemma they have with
16:09the with the in the in the in the branch i live i work at is about more than 150 computers and i told them
16:18this is like why not just switch them to linux you know they didn't listen to me i assume and i'm sure they
16:24won't but you know like imagine all these computers computers are really good powerful i know that the computer that i have at my
16:34my my work you have like uh half a gig of uh ssd uh uh what is it i think at 16 16 no maybe eight eight gig of ram
16:51this wasn't it's not a it's not a bad computer 12 gig of ram i think that's what that you know you know like so it's not a bad computer it run a fast cpu
17:03it doesn't run great because it has windows but like nevertheless if they that company went and
17:10switched to something or something like that you know yes the it department will uh will uh
17:20will have to work over time to secure them but they can and you know they're gonna work over time to put
17:26the new computers soon you know in the in service and then they have to pay fees like tremendous fees
17:34for microsoft if they do that and actually you know like they will they will help them so if you are a
17:43worker you can mention that to your to your uh or if you're a business owner especially if you're a small
17:50business owner it makes perfect sense to move to linux because even if you have a site that is built
18:00you know on a server most of those servers especially for small business they use
18:08mycql and they use php and all this so like they are on open source then they are probably the whole the
18:17servers on linux so it will actually make it easy for you to have to move and that's something we can
18:25all do and we can all win we can all win if you are a student and if you're taking online class or
18:35maybe you should tell your school can i can i have my one drive can we have a different program
18:43petition them if more than one student bring it up they can do if you are a student who can go
18:50to the school let's say you're not hundred percent not every class you're taking online you can maybe
18:56go to a testing center for a little bit you know and and if i actually will try to figure out how to
19:06make one drive work on linux we'll see if i will succeed if i will have time i can i don't want to
19:12promise but uh but uh there is uh of course with uh with that if you have if you're taking i remember
19:22when i took word when i took english and or any writing class that they will tell you it have to be
19:30microsoft whatever font so you know but like you can these days the good thing about that these days they
19:38have microsoft uh cloud you can edit the final page to have that theme they want so we all can do a
19:50little bit of a little bit to be more independent even if we don't succeed completely but i know i still
19:59have having the machine that i don't open often but you know but sometimes i need it and i have to use it
20:09and this has been a struggle and this is not because the other operating systems are inferior this is
20:15because it's a system a large system that require you you know to to do to use this product so
20:30summary don't be a mule you know don't settle for a glitch and bad performance
20:39lack of respect don't settle for lack of respect and no customer service those people don't settle for
20:47uh you know uploaded an insufficient operating system
20:55uh you know and of course be on the good side of history and that is it have a good day