Basically it described a problem with the boiling the frog technique. There's a point for every user at which they're fed up with the bullshit, lose all trust in you(r company) and are hard to impossible to get back as a customer. Every customer leaving has a little unnoticeable effect on you, but with time there will be so many people that you lost that all your tactics to lock your users in will fail.
Do so now and be quick, or wait a while. In a few days a huge next-gen update is dropping and everyone expects mods to be broken afterwards unless they are fixed. Since modding is usually done on PC, you may be able to downgrade the version, but it's more work.
I read it as "no, we won't use your data for advertising, but collect it anyways. If you ever dare to stop paying, we'll retroactively process this data, too"
When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Create and train your own LLM. This is hard and needs a huge amount of training data, hardware,...
Use one of the available models, e.g. GPT-4. Give it a special prompt with instructions and a pile of data to get fine tuned with. That's way easier, but you need good training data and it's still a medium to hard task.
Do variant 2, but don't fine-tune the model and just provide a system prompt.
Whoa there. Won't anyone ever think of the children-level executives? How could they afford a new Lamborghini or a new yacht when they also have to pay you?
It gets better if you backup and then get the prompt again after the next feature update of windows - because you get asked again and if you click on it will do a second backup which means that now all files are twice in your OneDrive, then three times, then four times, then… a reminder to upgrade OneDrive further as your storage is full.
I had to clean up this less more than once now for people and even witnessed it live after doing the upgrade for them sigh
Windows doesn't have sudo(not yet, at least) and privileges work a bit different as even as an administrator, you may not have full rights.
To overcome that obstacle, you'd need to run a shell as an administrator (hold CTRL+Shift, then use the start menu entry or right-click it and select run as administrator).
Next obstacle: We have a separate drive for each partition, but no root folder.
If we assume we're running on a laptop or PC with a single drive and a single partition*, then it's just
In cmd.exe:
del /F /S C:\
In Powershell:
Remove-Item -Recurse -Force -Path C:\
When you want to delete all (mounted) partitions/drives, you need to iterate over them. (Note that's from the top of my head, didn't check the script if it works).
Done. Mounting additional partitions before that is left as an exercise for the reader.
*note that even a standard installation of windows creates 3 partitions. One for the bootloader, one for the recovery system and then the system drive. Only the latter is mounted and will be deleted by this. The other two will still be intact.
665.999999657838 the floating point number of the beast