Vent Your Frustrations • Page 122

Bought my first computer in ~10 years, has Windows been this awful?

Haven't had a laptop in a while and needed one as I move towards higher education. I was so excited to pick it up and take it home. Immediately upon booting up I have to sign in to my Microsoft account. Weird. And then I have to opt out of what feels like a million different data monetization schemes. Weird. And then I have to download and install updates after the long winded boot up process before I can even do anything. Weird. Bad user experience. I finally get in just to see my wallpaper being some Lenovo Red Bull ad. Awful. I go to download Chrome just to figure out that my laptop is in S mode, which I assume is a dumb way to force people to open the Microsoft store. Again, weird. No electronic device should have this much in the way of just booting up and using it.

I remember just being able to change some preliminary settings and get into Windows. Now I get data monetization shoved down my throat, Microsoft game pass ads, and a fucking ad on my stock Wallpaper. I'm sorry, but Windows feels cheap now and no longer gives off a premium vibe. What a disappointment. If anyone has any tips to make Windows 11 less intrusive please let me know lol

 

Windows has been a shit show for a while but 11 just sucks.

 

I'm falling apart and idk why. Last two days I've felt so weak and nauseous. But not always. I'll feel completely fine and then like garbage again out of nowhere. A few times in my life I've sorta randomly passed out and it's been the feeling I get right before that happens, sort of shaky and nauseous like my blood sugar is low or something but again, last two days its not continuously. Sometimes this is accompanied by me feeling uncomfortably warm. Because it's not continuous I hesitate to say I'm sick because it comes and goes. But I've thrown up 2 times today. I threw up once earlier today and felt totally fine afterwards and thought I was done with it all. But then like an hour later it hit me again. Whhhhhy

Update: oop i think this may have been withdrawal from effexor