Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Windows search sucks balls and does stupid stuff like this all the time. Even when it’s not a web search it might open some file named terminal and not the program terminal. It does that to me all the time at work.
I think that adage used to work… however nowadays, with corporate greed enshittifying everything, I think it’s safe to presume malice by default, at least when the actor is a company. Your neighbor probably didn’t mean to do that thing that made you mad.
They no longer get the ‘benefit of the doubt’ after years of evidence that they will attempt to squeeze every penny out of their customers.
Oh it’s totally malice, like the “reminder” to want to share personal information to MS for a customized user experience, where you your only options are “yes, I want to eat shit” or “sorry, please ask me to eat shit later”
Or how they are clamping on people’s ability to create local accounts.
Is this true? Can’t be true
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Windows search sucks balls and does stupid stuff like this all the time. Even when it’s not a web search it might open some file named terminal and not the program terminal. It does that to me all the time at work.
I think that adage used to work… however nowadays, with corporate greed enshittifying everything, I think it’s safe to presume malice by default, at least when the actor is a company. Your neighbor probably didn’t mean to do that thing that made you mad.
They no longer get the ‘benefit of the doubt’ after years of evidence that they will attempt to squeeze every penny out of their customers.
Oh it’s totally malice, like the “reminder” to want to share personal information to MS for a customized user experience, where you your only options are “yes, I want to eat shit” or “sorry, please ask me to eat shit later”
Or how they are clamping on people’s ability to create local accounts.
Yeah, Hanlon’s Razor has always been suspect imo, at least as long as I’ve been aware of the term. Way too many malicious assholes these days.
It has for a decade, since Windows 10 basically.
I believe you can disable the dumb search providers.