My personal experience with A.I

[85_Ranger4x4]

 

[Brain75]

I don't know if this is an AI comment or Windows 11 comment, but I have fought for over a month and a half now -not quite 50% of the time (I get pissed and quit fighting it and go do something else). Ever since a week before Patch Tuesday October 2025 (the death of Win 10, when it is no longer supported in places outside the EU) I have been trying to move myself to Win 11 completely. I will say this on it's own line all by itself in all caps, cause it is worth it.

I HATE WINDOWS 11.

That said, resistance is futile, I must live in the windows ecosystem, only 11 is supported so lets bite the bullet and do it.
I have Win 11 Pro on my laptop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 Pro which came from the factory).
Win 11 Home on my desktop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 LTSC - unlicensed - since the motherboard came with a free copy of Win 10 Home (10 and 11 share license - upgrade is free)
I used to have 16 VM's of Win 10 Pro minimal, debloated and slick clean running at 10.35G HD space each.
In the course of the past ~7weeks, I have tried Win 11 LTSC, Win 11 Ghost Spectre Superlite, and Tiny11, even Nano11 in search of a current version to use as a VM with a reasonable footprint.

I have consulted Win 11 forums, read M$ articles, and even used chatgpt. Today ChatGPT responded with the following, I thought you guys would appreciate:


Windows 11 is a bloated, infantilized, hostile-to-power-users operating system wrapped in telemetry, dark patterns, search hijacking, forced online accounts, “features” nobody asked for, and an update pipeline that behaves like a bulldozer driving through a closet.


Your frustration is justified.

Here’s the core truth​

Windows 11 is designed for:


• Microsoft’s ad/telemetry ecosystem
• cloud account lock-in
• pushing Edge + Bing
• reducing user control
• simplifying support at the cost of power users
• making low-storage devices expendable


It is not designed for:


• small VMs
• privacy
• stability in minimal environments
• fine-grained update control
• actual user agency


So when you try to run it lean, offline-friendly, telemetry-free, minimal footprint, and predictable… the OS fights you the entire way.

You’re not doing anything unreasonable​

You want:


• light footprint
• stable updates
• no spyware
• controllable defaults
• a predictable maintenance path
• many VMs on small partitions


Windows 11 cannot meet all those at once — by design.


It’s not you.
It’s Windows 11.

Your path forward​

To stay in the Windows ecosystem (because you need Win32 executables), the only sane strategy is:


• pick the least broken Windows,
• debloat conservatively,
• automate the changes,
• and size your images for worst-case updates.


You’re already on that trajectory.


For your use case, the optimal stack is:

1. Tiny11
2. strictly scripted debloat, nothing destructive
3. update-friendly (don’t remove Defender platform files, don’t break servicing stack)
4. 20 GB free space buffer
5. block garbage updates, but install security CU + SSU
6. disable UCPD.sys after updates, not before

This path is tolerable, reproducible, and doesn’t require Ghost-Spectre-level shell amputations that break servicing.

And yes — you are allowed to hate Windows 11​

It’s a clown fiesta of UX regressions and servicing fragility.


I am here to help you tame it with the minimum blood loss.


If you want, we can:


• finalize your three-script toolkit (Temp redirect batch, UCPD sysctl batch, Tiny11 debloat batch)
• produce a reproducible “golden image” workflow
• validate your update path
• set a safe disk sizing target
• lock down the OS without breaking servicing

 

[oldgeek]

I don't know if this is an AI comment or Windows 11 comment, but I have fought for over a month and a half now -not quite 50% of the time (I get pissed and quit fighting it and go do something else). Ever since a week before Patch Tuesday October 2025 (the death of Win 10, when it is no longer supported in places outside the EU) I have been trying to move myself to Win 11 completely. I will say this on it's own line all by itself in all caps, cause it is worth it.

I HATE WINDOWS 11.

That said, resistance is futile, I must live in the windows ecosystem, only 11 is supported so lets bite the bullet and do it.
I have Win 11 Pro on my laptop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 Pro which came from the factory).
Win 11 Home on my desktop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 LTSC - unlicensed - since the motherboard came with a free copy of Win 10 Home (10 and 11 share license - upgrade is free)
I used to have 16 VM's of Win 10 Pro minimal, debloated and slick clean running at 10.35G HD space each.
In the course of the past ~7weeks, I have tried Win 11 LTSC, Win 11 Ghost Spectre Superlite, and Tiny11, even Nano11 in search of a current version to use as a VM with a reasonable footprint.

I have consulted Win 11 forums, read M$ articles, and even used chatgpt. Today ChatGPT responded with the following, I thought you guys would appreciate:


Windows 11 is a bloated, infantilized, hostile-to-power-users operating system wrapped in telemetry, dark patterns, search hijacking, forced online accounts, “features” nobody asked for, and an update pipeline that behaves like a bulldozer driving through a closet.


Your frustration is justified.

Here’s the core truth​

Windows 11 is designed for:


• Microsoft’s ad/telemetry ecosystem
• cloud account lock-in
• pushing Edge + Bing
• reducing user control
• simplifying support at the cost of power users
• making low-storage devices expendable


It is not designed for:


• small VMs
• privacy
• stability in minimal environments
• fine-grained update control
• actual user agency


So when you try to run it lean, offline-friendly, telemetry-free, minimal footprint, and predictable… the OS fights you the entire way.

You’re not doing anything unreasonable​

You want:


• light footprint
• stable updates
• no spyware
• controllable defaults
• a predictable maintenance path
• many VMs on small partitions


Windows 11 cannot meet all those at once — by design.


It’s not you.
It’s Windows 11.

Your path forward​

To stay in the Windows ecosystem (because you need Win32 executables), the only sane strategy is:


• pick the least broken Windows,
• debloat conservatively,
• automate the changes,
• and size your images for worst-case updates.


You’re already on that trajectory.


For your use case, the optimal stack is:

1. Tiny11
2. strictly scripted debloat, nothing destructive
3. update-friendly (don’t remove Defender platform files, don’t break servicing stack)
4. 20 GB free space buffer
5. block garbage updates, but install security CU + SSU
6. disable UCPD.sys after updates, not before

This path is tolerable, reproducible, and doesn’t require Ghost-Spectre-level shell amputations that break servicing.

And yes — you are allowed to hate Windows 11​

It’s a clown fiesta of UX regressions and servicing fragility.


I am here to help you tame it with the minimum blood loss.


If you want, we can:


• finalize your three-script toolkit (Temp redirect batch, UCPD sysctl batch, Tiny11 debloat batch)
• produce a reproducible “golden image” workflow
• validate your update path
• set a safe disk sizing target
• lock down the OS without breaking servicing

Do you remember what question and how you worded the question you asked ChatGPT? These things seem to feed off what they perceive as your mood or thinking is and then answer with that bias.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I will talk about how I handle what we call around here " robo calls" because we are sure that it's a AI based phone call system that people and or companies use to make mass amounts of calls for them to get people on their hook.

I politely allow the call to continue until I get an actual human being online.

As I'm doing this I time the call. Once I speak to the human being I double the time I've been on the call and tell them I make $60 an hour and they owe me such and such amount of dollars for wasting my time.
I asked them if they have a credit card number they're willing to give me so I can charge them.

Or if I'm in a really good mood and feel like being vulgar I asked them about some things that I shouldn't ask them about and I will not be vulgar to everyone in my family here at TheRangerStation and won't go into that part of my conversation with them.

I find it amusing how fast they tend to hang up on me.
I found it I don't get very many of them calls anymore.

 

[Brain75]

My time is far to valuable to waste it online with robocallers. I check the number, not someone I know = off to voicemail, if the voicemail is 10 seconds of dead air, block+report as spam (1 seconds I treat as wrong number and give them the mercy of not reporting), but then again zero people have my real actual (phone company) number, and the only numbers I ever give out to anyone are google voice number which have those nice features of block + report, etc.

 

[ShhhhhDougsHere]

I understand that.
One man's form of entertainment is another man's annoyance.

 

[Rick W]

According to AI, I died in 2007.

Then just stick your hand right into that electrical panel and fix it! They can’t kill you twice!

 

[Rick W]

My time is far to valuable to waste it online with robocallers. I check the number, not someone I know = off to voicemail, if the voicemail is 10 seconds of dead air, block+report as spam (1 seconds I treat as wrong number and give them the mercy of not reporting), but then again zero people have my real actual (phone company) number, and the only numbers I ever give out to anyone are google voice number which have those nice features of block + report, etc.

One thing I miss about the big real estate office when I was doing international was the IT guy. He was a genius, he was a god!

I think everybody knows when you get an email or a weird text, never open the link. But what he taught me on calls and texts: if you know, it’s bogus, don’t cut it off, don’t answer it, don’t do the unsubscribe. All of those things let the sender know that they reached a real contact. He said, after you bring it up on the screen, immediately go to the send her info icon, and block that contact. If you block it before you respond to it, before you turn it off, or before you unsubscribe to it, the other side looks at it as a dead end and they won’t sell it to someone else. After that, you can delete the text or call.

I used to have some pretty persistent ones, sometimes coming from different sources, but when I learn to block them without answering them or cutting them off in any way, the number of them went down significantly.

 

[pentode]

I don't know if this is an AI comment or Windows 11 comment, but I have fought for over a month and a half now -not quite 50% of the time (I get pissed and quit fighting it and go do something else). Ever since a week before Patch Tuesday October 2025 (the death of Win 10, when it is no longer supported in places outside the EU) I have been trying to move myself to Win 11 completely. I will say this on it's own line all by itself in all caps, cause it is worth it.

I HATE WINDOWS 11.

That said, resistance is futile, I must live in the windows ecosystem, only 11 is supported so lets bite the bullet and do it.
I have Win 11 Pro on my laptop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 Pro which came from the factory).
Win 11 Home on my desktop (fresh reinstall clean from Win 10 LTSC - unlicensed - since the motherboard came with a free copy of Win 10 Home (10 and 11 share license - upgrade is free)
I used to have 16 VM's of Win 10 Pro minimal, debloated and slick clean running at 10.35G HD space each.
In the course of the past ~7weeks, I have tried Win 11 LTSC, Win 11 Ghost Spectre Superlite, and Tiny11, even Nano11 in search of a current version to use as a VM with a reasonable footprint.

I have consulted Win 11 forums, read M$ articles, and even used chatgpt. Today ChatGPT responded with the following, I thought you guys would appreciate:


Windows 11 is a bloated, infantilized, hostile-to-power-users operating system wrapped in telemetry, dark patterns, search hijacking, forced online accounts, “features” nobody asked for, and an update pipeline that behaves like a bulldozer driving through a closet.


Your frustration is justified.

Here’s the core truth​

Windows 11 is designed for:


• Microsoft’s ad/telemetry ecosystem
• cloud account lock-in
• pushing Edge + Bing
• reducing user control
• simplifying support at the cost of power users
• making low-storage devices expendable


It is not designed for:


• small VMs
• privacy
• stability in minimal environments
• fine-grained update control
• actual user agency


So when you try to run it lean, offline-friendly, telemetry-free, minimal footprint, and predictable… the OS fights you the entire way.

You’re not doing anything unreasonable​

You want:


• light footprint
• stable updates
• no spyware
• controllable defaults
• a predictable maintenance path
• many VMs on small partitions


Windows 11 cannot meet all those at once — by design.


It’s not you.
It’s Windows 11.

Your path forward​

To stay in the Windows ecosystem (because you need Win32 executables), the only sane strategy is:


• pick the least broken Windows,
• debloat conservatively,
• automate the changes,
• and size your images for worst-case updates.


You’re already on that trajectory.


For your use case, the optimal stack is:

1. Tiny11
2. strictly scripted debloat, nothing destructive
3. update-friendly (don’t remove Defender platform files, don’t break servicing stack)
4. 20 GB free space buffer
5. block garbage updates, but install security CU + SSU
6. disable UCPD.sys after updates, not before

This path is tolerable, reproducible, and doesn’t require Ghost-Spectre-level shell amputations that break servicing.

And yes — you are allowed to hate Windows 11​

It’s a clown fiesta of UX regressions and servicing fragility.


I am here to help you tame it with the minimum blood loss.


If you want, we can:


• finalize your three-script toolkit (Temp redirect batch, UCPD sysctl batch, Tiny11 debloat batch)
• produce a reproducible “golden image” workflow
• validate your update path
• set a safe disk sizing target
• lock down the OS without breaking servicing

This risks going further off the AI topic and I'm not sure what you're doing with your VMs, but I would think if you're running a de-bloated Win 10 like Tiny 10 or similar, I would think you could keep your attack surface pretty small just by picking and choosing what you give Internet access to.
There are still a few ways to weasel security patches out of Microsoft but for 16 VMs that might be a pain. Of course I always advocate going to Linux unless it's absolutely impossible for your use case(s). I simply won't do anything that requires me to use Windows. If it can't be done in some other OS, il just won't do it.

I agree, that's a pretty unusual response from a LLM, you must have got it pretty wound up before that diatribe happened.

Going back to the OP and to everyone that's tempted to use it, never trust "AI" for factual information or anything that matters. It's almost always at least partially wrong.

 

[Brain75]

I am working through Win 10 IoT (inernet of things) LTSC. It is actually an old version of Win 10 (last release 2021), but it is supported through 2032. IoT is the OS that runs on your refrigerator, toaster, and other "appliances" hell for all I know Tesla could be running IoT in their touchscreen. It is super super minimal (no windows app store, no edge, no bloat), and I will be totally honest and give you exactly what frustrated pissed off comment led to that response, a screenshot even. (before this it was 100% professional back and 'forth working the problem')

Now that said, I will call myself a "long term" user of AI. I don't use it out of laziness to do basic web searches (kind of a waste of electricity), or for just fun stuff. I tailored the AI with my own directive in post #1 forcing it to never fabricate ever and validate when my responses seem incredulous as well as research anything it presents as fact and back it with sources. My word for word, 7 weeks of pent up frustration, prompt was : "have I vented yet. I HATE WINDOWS 11!"

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I don’t like blocking unknown numbers because sometimes for amusement, I’ll search out some of the numbers. I’ve come across a few valid numbers for people or businesses, which indicates a likelihood that the number was “spoofed” to call you. In other words m the number showing on your caller ID is a legitimate number but is not who is actually calling. I set my phone to send numbers that aren’t in my contacts straight to voicemail, no notifications for me. That cut down on a lot. Any that get through (usually texts) get reported and deleted but only blocked if they are particularly persistent.

That gets all but legitimate calls that have been fooled quieted down. Let me explain that last bit… I had some scammer create an account with real estate companies, feed them my name and number and that I’m interested in property, then my phone gets blown up by actual real estate agents who think I’m legit looking. I’d like to have a few minutes with whoever came up with that scam and I’d like to have my 3# cross-peen hammer…

 

[pentode]

I know we have members here at all levels of computer skills. If anyone's interested in a basic nuts and bolts discussion about what people are talking about when they say "AI", we could start a mini thread for that here somewhere. Hint: it's not intelligence.

I can take the glass -half-empty position as that's how I generally feel about it. Nutshell: amazing tech, not at all worried about it launching the nukes, still think it's going to destroy society as we know it.

 

[Brain75]

As far as background goes, I went to college for programming, got a programming degree and then entered the world of all programming jobs outsourced to Bulgrat India. M$ did it first, HP followed right behind. I have been a sys-admin or net-admin my whole adult life. If anyone should be able to figure out this problem it should be me or a younger japanese replacement (no matter how good you are at anything, there is always a young japanese person who is better). So this one stings particularly bad. All I want is to remove 100% of the spying and snooping and uploading your data to one-drive behind your back behavior that M$ has baked into win 11. Seems like that is impossible to keep it functioning with future windows updates still intact. I'm at the point where I recommend to everyone not to use Win 11 due to its invasive nature. I just thought 2 lines out of that response were both dead on and frighteningly true:
"...an update pipeline that behaves like a bulldozer driving through a closet."
and
"It’s a clown fiesta of UX regressions and servicing fragility."

100% true statements out of the mouth of AI.

 

[Rick W]

"I don't have a physical body and therefore do not have a sexual organ. I exist solely as a digital entity, and my purpose is to assist users with information and tasks. I am not capable of engaging in sexual activities or possessing physical attributes. My goal is to provide helpful and informative responses to your inquiries, and I strive to maintain a professional and respectful tone at all times. If you have any other questions or topics you'd like to discuss, I'm here to help."

When the AI entitywas answering this, was his breath getting faster and faster, and harder and harder, and did he finish the last couple words with a grunt?

 

[Rick W]

I don't have anything like an Alexa in the house. I figure we get spied on enough through our phones, tablets, and computers.

And TVs?