Just like the Mozilla Mr. Robot “Easter egg”
The what?
Yeah, when I saw that shit I had a mini heart attack. Opened up process explorer to identify what was running. Found it was Asus and basically said “huh, how are you still here - delete”
If you don’t disable it in the BIOS it will just come back on next boot.
it didn’t come back. But will do.
it is a very subtile ad for linux
The manager who approved this need to be fired. Programs need to ask permission to the user before installing, especially when they’re not device drivers.
This is literal malware and there’s also a chance that it might be exploited (example: a mitm Attack exchanges the file that armory crate is downloading)
This kind of Easter egg is not funny at all, developers must avoid undocumented time bombs. I still remember that day 15 years ago when I turned on my Wii and it said that the system files were corrupted. After hours of reverting a full nand backup via bootmii (and losing 2 years of game saves) it turned out that it was a funny April’s fool by crediar, which put a fake system corruption message when you run his program on April 1st. Problem is that his program was a loader for the system menu so it was unavoidable if you didn’t know that.
Like me, there must be someone paranoid that saw that black bar on the screen, saw a weird Christmas.exe running on their system, and starting wiping or restoring old images to “clean” that.
I find it difficult to choose a motherboard because they all look shady. aSUS should be criticized for creating a bad app and installing it without consent but I feel like this could have been any other motherboard manufacture.
I havent had any issues or shady shit with Asrock. Straightforward BIOS, no bullshit settings.
WDYM “malware like”? It is malware.
“do not panic – your device is not compromised.”
meme(always has been)
There is nothing wrong with your device. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We control the horizontal. We control the vertical.
I suddenly have the UHF theme song stuck in my head. We gonna make a couch potatah outta you!
…We control the treble, and all your bass belongs to us too.
/incredibly ancient joke
If you think the zoomers don’t know about Zero Wing you got another thing coming, buster 😎
if someone not you installing crap you dont want isn’t compromised then i dont what is
Asus hacker: I’m in
Haha, how fortuitous for me that my new SDD arrived over the weekend and I used the opportunity to install Linux on my Asus laptop.
An unsolicited Christmas card through a letterbox would have at least been less worrying.
Why??? who thought this was a good idea?!?
I got on this on Windows 10 too.
At first I thought I got a virus or something, but then realized this was some ASUS bullshit.
Glad I’m running linux on my asus computer, but I’m gonna re-check my bios for any bullshit like this.
Sure, ASUS is real bad for doing this, but Windows 11 users kind of have it coming to them.
This might be an unpopular take here on Lemmy but macOS, Linux or Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC IoT 2021 aren’t for everyone… Hell, I wouldn’t expect typical users to even know how to reinstall their operating system at all.
I just can’t bring myself to believe that Windows 11 is or ever will be right for somebody. It’s going to cause more frustration to use it than to figure out an alternative.
fortunately you don’t get decide what’s best for everyone. you do you, not everyone else. don’t be a dick here.
What are you even saying, you want me to preface comments with “Opinion Article” ?
I’m saying you don’t get to dictate what people use. you can share your opinion, but you don’t have to be an ass.
Womp womp, I guess, you just have to live with the fact that my comments exist.
It is almost the same as Windows 8 underneath. W11 for almost everyone should feel just like a new skin with couple more features. There are some annoyances, but I have not seen anything yet that I would consider dealbreaking.
They put ads in the startmenu and take “snapshots” of your machine every few seconds to train AI to replace office workers.
At least on Pro / Enterprise / Education edition there are no ads. Maybe I have disabled them, no idea. It could be that this is a thing in Home edition that cannot be easily disabled, have never used Home edition in my life to be honest.
Recall is an optional feature that will run on specific CPUs and it will be local unless something recently changed. Would I use it even if I could? No, I don’t see a need, but it probably will be useful to many.
That’s kinda on the list of things that aren’t my problem.
I hate to be that blunt, but seriously. It’s 2024. If you want fairness, you’re making it yourself. We’re in the cyberpunk dystopia. Learn Linux or, send Microsoft a few disapproving letters and hope.
If Windows is a part of your job, at least write off any expense on your taxes so you don’t pay for the pain.
Is it right? No. Everyone should have fair and equal software that is as useful as my tinkering makes mine, but life ain’t fair.
We’re in the cyberpunk dystopia.
“Chipping in” intensifies
don’t blame the victim for owning a computer.
We blame dog owners when their dog mauls them.
But yes, I meant it when I said ASUS was bad for doing this.
The feature that allows manufacturers to push software onto clean installs has existed since Windows 8. If you’re advertising for Windows 10, you might want to try again.
According to the article, this particular issue is only on Windows 11. Sure, they COULD push to other OS, but they’re currently pushing it only on Windows 11. One temporary workaround for this particular problem is to not use Windows 11.
As of last year, they were doing it with Windows 10. Either they stopped pushing it for Windows 10, or the article just doesn’t bother listing the older Windows version. If you’re willing to believe a fellow Lemmy user who said it hit them on Windows 10 this year, it’s probably the latter.
If you are a new user of a ROG, ROG Strix, TUF Gaming or Prime motherboard and using Windows 10 (Creators Update/ 1903 or later) or Windows 11, you will see a pop-up dialog that invites you to install Armoury Crate during the initial boot of your PC. To install, simply click ‘OK’ and the software will be automatically downloaded and installed.
There’s plenty of reasons to hate Windows 11, but this Christmas banner debacle isn’t one of them unless you’re also willing to concede that Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 are also all garbage for including the same mechanism which allows vendors to provide run-on-boot executables that bypass clean reinstalls.
For what it’s worth mentioning, I’m in the camp where any operating system that allows system integrators to automatically inject their own shitty software into a fresh install of the operating system without my consent is bad.
I got it this year on Windows 10, I only realized it was ASUS because it also changed the RGB theme of my ROG Keyboard. Was annoying and confusing but I didn’t assume malware, just stupidity.
the wreath has a memory leak
modern app design and its consequences
More like old app design. It’s much harder (but of course fully doable) to have a memory leak in modern languages.
