Eww

It’s more complicated than that. I’ll spare you, but I recommend the forks of Firefox like Librewolf, Floorp, etc.

I’d been a Vivaldi user for a while too but the latest version killed Ublock Origin, so sad to say the browser is now dead to me.

People who do anything other than acquiring coffee in coffee shops are untrustworthy.

In my experience, updates that break boot are up 250% since 7, and their “roll back” for “Feature” and “quality” upgrades fails 85% of the time, “Sorry we weren’t able to uninstall…”

Not to mention that they’ve disabled the default registry backup since 10. Go ahead- check the “regback” folder. There’s nothing in it. Don’t even get me started on auto-bitlockering.

Odd how we have such different experiences the last 10 years.

Hopefully it’s not allowed through your firewall ><

Does your enterprise have requirements about your personal devices? I’d argue they don’t.

15-20 years ago I’d regularly find Windows 7 PCs that had stuffed boot drives using the \Windows\Temp folder with corrupt or “could not install, retried” updates. They’ve improved nothing in all that time. The only thing they’ve “improved” is the UI, which is at best debatable. I think most people would now be absolutely thrilled to go back to 7’s user interface today.

Using Windows at this point is a sign of someone too lazy to try something new, glued to a game run by assholes that won’t check a box on their end to allow their anti-cheat to function elsewhere, or completely comfortable in the Windows ecosystem prison system.

“Buy this other ludicrous thing from us that you don’t want for partial benefit on this other thing you hate!”

ONE OF US

ONE OF US

That’s a link to linkedin, so I’m gonna “no thanks” that one. I’m not visiting that hell-hole.

“We caused the biggest E-waste event in 30 years, AND completely alienated lower income customers, so I guess we’ll give the broke plebs and privacy minded users a little more time in the hopes they won’t show up in Redmond with pitchforks and torches.”

I prefer my critical faculties completely intact and un-altered, thank you very much.
I do not require or desire a 400 watt bullshit-artist yes-man or vulnerability coder cooking my GPU.

I think the way the AUR works has outlived its usefulness. It was fun while it lasted folks.

The only reasonable reaction to all this horrendous slop fail they continue to do is run a batch of updates after a decent system backup, test, then block all updates for the max it lets a user. (5-6 weeks, right?) Even that’s a stretch, but it’s better than hoping it doesn’t blow up in a new and spectacular way next Tuesday/Wednesday.

Good.

Awww, that @#%ing sucks. I’m not sure I’m big on SFF that uses riser cards/cables any more. Had a machine built in a Fractal Ridge, then wound up moving to a different case. Rebuilt using some older parts in the Fractal to sell it off, and it wouldn’t post. Turns out the riser board had failed.

On the bright side you’ll never have a problem identifying your own PC, it’s quite unique now.

Depends if the man was a member of the Epstein class or not.

Fingers crossed! Thrilled you dig it!