「昔はワクワクさせられたテクノロジーを今や疑わなくてはならなくなった」という主張

so here's a story

I volunteer helping seniors with their technology issues. One of my regulars came in with a Lenovo laptop. It still had a retail sticker; I imagine she bought it used, for over $500

"I bought this so recently, how is it already so slow," she asked me https://t.co/DypMKpzmzb

— Frisco Uplink, Dynamic Islander (@_danilo)

I fire up the task manager to get a look at things

She's right: her CPU capacity is SATURATED at regular intervals. The laptop is barely usable.

Digging into the list of processes, there's all kinds of Lenovo branded junkware running in the background.

— Frisco Uplink, Dynamic Islander (@_danilo)

A quick Google search confirms this is a common issue on these machines. I try to launch Lenovo's frontend for all of this junk...

and it gets so much worse. All this hideous Lenovo branding in an unnecessary splash screen, leading to a hideous app of zero value

— Frisco Uplink, Dynamic Islander (@_danilo)

As I'm digging around I realize what's going on: Lenovo wants surveillance turf

They want a "relationship" with the customer that's a thinly veiled back door into their machine. How often does the trackpad REALLY need a firmware update?

I ask my client for consent to remove it

— Frisco Uplink, Dynamic Islander (@_danilo)

The challenge is that now with this garbage program running in the foreground, the whole machine has truly ground to a halt

It takes me five minutes (!) of the limited time in our appointment even to access the Add/Remove Programs panel, so slow is everything running

— Frisco Uplink, Dynamic Islander (@_danilo)

After explaining the situation to the client, I purge EVERYTHING related to this Lenovo branded surveillance garbage from the machine, just as we're running out of time.

And instantly: it's usable again. CPU graph cools down, UI becomes reliably responsive again.

— Frisco Uplink, Dynamic Islander (@_danilo)