An HOA (home owners associations) can say what color you can paint your house, What you can plant in your yard, What you can have in your driveway, and some even say what color your blinds can be.

Microsoft controls your computer, they say what info is sent back to Microsoft, and they say when you must upgrade. They can shut down your computer when they want whether you like it or not.

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    18 hours ago

    I don’t get the forced update thing at all, use windows at work and don’t get nagged about updates ever. if it ever has updated on its own it’s done so completely imperceptibly to me

    The only argument I see is that they’re dropping support for win 10 soon which kinda sucks but the majority of people will not even notice they’ve been upgraded

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      14 hours ago

      Is that an Enterprise version at work? I mean even if you pause updates for as long as they allow you to on consumer versions, at some point you do have to do it. I do get nagged on one of my installations but not on my main one. Both Windows 10.

      I was planning to transition to Linux completely by this autumn but laziness strikes as per. I guess autumn 2025 is the new deadline now.

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        14 hours ago

        It is the professional version yes but even when I used to have windows 10 I managed to turn auto updates off permanently