Alabaster_Mango

For fun: Count the fingers on each hand in each panel.

I’m upvoting but I’m sad

Just blocked them, thanks for the heads up 👍

If you paid someone for Windows and still had the activate message then they ripped you off.

While some softwares have free versions, unactivated Windows isn’t that. Free versions are typically feature-limited, or serve up ads to cover the cost. More importantly they are intended to be free and offered as such. Unactivated Windows is a paid product that hasn’t had the proof of purchase (product key) applied yet. Microsoft has hitherto been lax about enforcement, at least against non-enterprise users, but it is still against their terms of service to continue to use Windows without providing a key.

Like, sure you can get it and install it for free, but that doesn’t mean it’s a “Free Version” in any official sense. If it was indeed a free version then they wouldn’t pester you to activate, they would clearly state it’s a Free version, and the activate watermark wouldn’t be there.

This is digging deeper into my youth, so take this with a grain of salt, but I’m pretty sure older versions of Windows were different. I remember having to provide the product key during the installation of Vista way back when. Before I ever saw the desktop. This is when Windows came in a box from a physical store. Nowadays with online purchases it makes sense to provide a level of computer functionality so users can access the online store.

That’s not exactly the same as them offering the whole OS for free. That’s basically a trial version. The “Activate Windows” message is stuck there and it will bug you with reminders to activate all the time. Their intent is for you to purchase a key from them. Any other method to remove the message and activate Windows that does not involve paying them money is against their terms of service.

Saying that’s Windows offering the OS for free is like saying you can get free books from a library if you just don’t return them. It goes against the intent of the service.

I don’t know all the details, but you can buy Windows 11 from them still. An “upgrade” from 10 to 11 may be free, at least that’s what the world’s most annoying pop-up was telling me before I switched to Linux.

You’re forgetting piracy. I didn’t buy any parts with OEM licenses. Granted I went grey market for my Windows 10 so I paid someone like $20.

OneDrive also deletes files off of your computer if you don’t use them often enough. When I was switching over to Linux I had to download a bunch of stuff that was made on that PC! Ridiculous.

Like, you can turn that off, but I don’t think I ever signed up for that specifically.

No joke, one of the last straws for me was their stupid copilot popup on the active cell in Excel. Hated that garbage. Also their refusal to let me just use the file explorer to save my files. Maybe I’m an old fogey, but every new addition felt like a step backwards. I have now switched to Linux and am having a decent time (not for everyone tho and I totes understand if others don’t want to make the switch).

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I didn’t think I had to be that explicit with the details. No. I was not intending to imply that. Honestly the topic of the comic is gross and I was trying not to acknowledge it too much. I was mostly just talking about the past/future bodily consent issue in general. Sorry I wasn’t more clear.

Edit: I had a different reply earlier where I was jerkish. Sorry. I shouldn’t comment whilst grouchy and sleepy. I re-read my earlier comment and, yeah, I can see how that came off that way.

I’m not talking about just sex here. There’s plenty of legally binding stuff you can’t withdraw from one you’ve agreed to them.

Well you should have been more clear on that. I also could have been more clear that I was talking about body autonomy (like the situation in the comic) and not legally binding contracts.

Past me can give consent for themselves, yeah. If I ever change my mind then so too does the status of the consent.

So, if the present version of the person in the comic gave consent, but the past version did not, then consent would not be given. Time travel or no, it is up to the individual.

(Edit: I was talking about broad consent here without taking into context the subject matter of the comic. I was trying to avoid that subject matter because it is gross, and hoisted myself by my own petard in the process. To be clear - The past version is under age and therefore cannot give consent in the depicted scenario.)

I don’t agree that they are the same person. Even though they’re two instances of one being. They’re two physically separate bits of mass with different opinions on the situation.

Pretty simple answer here: No.

Consent is based on the individual. Identical twins can’t give consent for each other, despite being genetically identical.