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Default search engine DOESN’T change because I was using the Free and Open Source™ operating system, GNU/Linux
Or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux + Dogpile + AltaVista + AOL
So many toolbars while in reality you need only one…
spoiler
What am I looking at…
The OS equivalent of having licked the train station toilet.
Mmm, flavorful
Before you paid for “free” software with your data, you used to pay by agreeing to install a search bar in your browser. Usually you just uninstalled it directly afterwards. Not this guy though.
This kind of thing is what got me into actually reading install wizards instead of clicking next, next, agree, next, yes, install, finish. I learned I could just uncheck those agree/install boxes and still install the software I actually wanted without all the extra crap. That’s one trend from the 00s and early 10s I do not miss.
Wait until you hear about kernel level anticheat for competitive games
This has kind of come around full circle… Video games went from what you described to literally just not letting you start the game until you approved every EULA that popped up before the main menu.
They got us so used to just clicking OK because we knew the only alternative was not playing the game at all.
Now they have several types of EULAs at the start of a game, and usually the "data sharing’ one is separated out and not needed to be approved in order to start the game (probably thanks the GDPR if I had to guess off hand). But people have gotten so conditioned to the idea of “just click OK over and over so I can start playing” that they don’t realize there’s two separate EULAs there, and only one is required to be accepted to play the game.
usually the "data sharing’ one is separated out and not needed to be approved in order to start the game
This hasn’t been my experience with games at all. The data sharing one typically has to be accepted as well, at least on the console games I’ve played.
I always try to say no to them, and they just boot me back to the title screen, even when I have the game on disc. It’s all region-locked shit so I don’t find this terribly surprising, just really invasive…
Pc gaming is probably better because you actually have options to spoof location and stuff, so they can’t know for sure, maybe that’s where you’ve experienced that?
Try again next time, and look a little bit closer. They will do everything they can to make you think you need to accept both, but there’s a reason there are two things you need to approve and why the wording is subtly different when asking approval of one vs the other.
And yes I’m talking about console games as well.
You’re looking at The Great Era of Internet.
Windows95
But god I miss MSVC++
Those shitty square widgets ❤️
That brings back memories
We used to install some of those on purpose.
Surely the default search engine in internet explorer in your prefix would have changed.
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Opt 1 \
Default search engine DOESN’T change because I was using the Free and Open Source™ operating system, GNU/Linux
Opt 2 \
Default search engine changes because of reasons. Money reasons. Money reasons fueled by the product (user).
It is real. Enormous dickeroo energy.
I looove CMD windows popping up at boot 😍😍
AMD’s auto updater does this. But it pops up and closes instantly so I have no idea if it’s actually working or just crashing.
Same thing with ASUS’s AURA software
Cancer
And MSIs motherboard control centre thingy. Its absolute garbage
Mine does this but sometimes hangs until I close it myself lol
It freaks me out every time I see it on my rig with the damn bloated ass drivers now.
I’m supposed to be clean. But it feels like computer herpes.
In reality 2/3 or more of the world population has it, but nobody wants to admit or believe they do despite science saying differently lol.
Uhh I don’t have it
Uses arch btw?
I don’t sadly, my work software only supports Win/OSX. I recently had a BIOS update failure (thanks ASUS) and had to use a live Linux distro to recover my system data though!
Yep, that’s helped me recover if you crashed Windows machines over the years
Have you had more than 1 partner? Has your 1 partner had more than 1 partner? Congrats. You got the herp.
Did you grow up in a household where your parents kissed you? Congrats, you got the herp.
Do you hate cost efficient frugal computer parts and have only ever had 1 sex partner that also was a virgin from households where they didn’t kiss their children? Congrats, you might not actually have the herp.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/herpes-simplex-virus
https://www.cdc.gov/herpes/about/index.html
An estimated 3.7 billion people under age 50 (67%) globally have herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) infection, the main cause of oral herpes. An estimated 491 million people aged 15–49 (13%) worldwide have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection, the main cause of genital herpes. Most HSV infections are asymptomatic or unrecognized, but symptoms of herpes include painful blisters or ulcers that can recur over time. Infection with HSV-2 increases the risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV infection.
Do you hate cost efficient frugal computer parts
Haha actually… https://pcpartpicker.com/user/captain_ender/builds/#view=9LDcCJ
Unironically don’t have cmd prompts or spyware search engines. But that’s not hard.
Fuck you got that rig or it’s a dream?
Is real. Use it everyday for work (and activities) haha.
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One time pirated some video editing software and after rebooting my Steam had janky early 2000s sidebar ads.
I got porn adverts on roblox ☹️
so… just default Roblox then?
Someone told me I must have had an virus. Were the porn ads on Roblox actually a Roblox thing back in the day?
One time when I was a teenager, I somehow downloaded exactly the wrong porn and then my login screen background and windows xp startup splash screen all got replaced with a Debian logo.
Isn’t this an improvement?
Nothings a improvement over windows xp not even Linux
Back in the days, you’re probably right. Nowadays? I wouldn’t connect online with Windows XP…
To be honest. Windows XP is probably still good to use just with a decent router. most router firewalls are good enough on there own to keep out nasties. Other than that the best antivirus is common sense.
Good luck with software compatibility. The latest web-browser you can run on Windows XP is probably 10 years out of date by now and riddled with exploits, same with network share protocols, printer drives, etc. Your router will not protect you of attacs using port 443 or 80. Same for antivirus software, where are you going to find an updated one working on XP?
Let’s remaster Windows XP. Call it Windows XP. Update security, compatibility.
Oh, wait, that’s basically Linux
I would love someone to develop Linux distribution that looks and works like XP. oh the nostalgia. Best of both worlds world’s best UI and based off linux preferably something nice and easy like Debian or Ubuntu. To help windows users get familiar with Linux
Have you tried Bing lately?
Fuck, I remember when I was using Bing religiously unironicaly in the early 2010s during my Extremist Microsoft Loyalist phase.
Loyalism, sure… We all know what’s the only reason to use Bing.
I’m farming Microsoft Reward points with nonsensical searches for Overwatch coins. That’s the only true reason to use Bing
Good pork results.
Windows Phone’s UI is a hill I will die on, it was really nice! I actively missed it for a while when switching.
The only thing a bit shitty was the Settings. It was like a mile long, not sure if it had search or not. Was a long time ago.
I bet there’s a bunch of quality of life things I take for granted on android! I think you’re right about the search :)
I love using Microsoft Edge on my GNU/Linux machine. I actually tried switching to Google as the search engine, but Microsoft Edge said it would be sad if I switched, so for the sake of Microsoft, I decided that I’d stay with Bing forever. I love giving my personal information to Copilot so that it can generate an interview application for me in my local fast food shops such as Mcdonalds, KFC, Burger King, etc. God bless Microsoft, best company ever!!! /s
I mean Microsoft will pay you to use them to search for porn
I’ve never even checked whether it’s available outside of windows. Is… is this actually possible?
Edge actually runs great on Linux
I think I have it installed on my Steam Deck
Apparently, it is.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/microsoft-edge-stable-bin
It’s pretty good. Or atleast it was. I think with ai it’ll become worse.
When my work colleague opens his Edge browser it always shows a page with “news” and ads. Bro… I always think of that IT crowd episode where the guy says “if this were a person, I’d shoot it in the face”.
That’s just the default new tab page on edge
And I would take it as a bad sign when the people who are supposed to be the most tech savvy in the building can’t be bothered to take 3 seconds to change that.
The bing homepage is so terrible
I had a friend that used microsoft edge and bing because they were the default and said that firefox is the worst and edge is much better
I did switch his default browser to firefox and search engine(on edge) to google(i wanted to switch to duckduckgo, but he hated it for no reason) while he was talking
Can confirm. Even though everyone shits on Chrome for its liberal use of your RAM, Firefox will never suspend any pages, making it unusable when you’re multitasking.
That’s an ongoing issue, too! Hasn’t been fixed for maybe a year at this point. Gonna use edge the next time I reinstall windows.
What are you doing that renders Firefox unusable? I’ve never had this issue in over a decade and I usually have 10+ tabs open.
10? Try (currently) 98 across 9 windows, 2 desktops. Firefox just dies. Chrome works, but Edge (thanks to its more agressive backgrounder) handles it fine. Reopens windows after reboot/shutdown better too. And that number goes up if I’m researching something - I’ve been upwards of 200 across 3 or 4 desktops in the past, easily.
I have like 300 tabs open at any given time, I have never had this problem. I also recently downloaded an extension for tab groups and making it so tabs get suspended after 15 minutes of inactivity, but I’m not really sure that was necessary at all.
I might have to give it a try. How is cross device sync and android support? I’ll often send a group to the mobile…
Not available on my android device, and I don’t really use other computers, so I dunno. I think onetab is supported on both, but I haven’t used that one too much.
10? Try (currently) 98 across 9 windows, 2 desktops.\
Just ew… I will never understand this shit. Tabs aren’t fucking bookmarks.
And that’s how you use things, which is fair enough. I prefer to have an organised, ready-to-go access to commonly required resources that I can view at a glance. I have things like e-mail, calendar, various (multiple) messaging and social media resources open at all times. I also have documents and reference materials that are regularly accessed open. Books and long-form reading materials stay open at the position I’m at. Further to that, if I’m researching something it may take time for my thoughts and desires to coalesce; during that time, the primary research tabs stay open in their own group. I may have somewhere between 3 - 6 things I’m researching at a time, with varying numbers of tabs. Then there’s note-taking, coding, gaming and rewards sites. Sure, some I use as ‘bookmarks’, but not that many - most are things that are in long-term progress and use.
At least in this context, handling a lot of tabs didnt matter because he had the startup option set to open the home page, not the previous pages and he doesnt use his pc enough to use this many tabs at once
DuckDuckGo is pretty nifty
I actually use Ecosia, which is just privacy Bing that plants trees and rebuilds ecosystems.
I keep clicking on that irritating Copilot AI button because Bing crammed it right in front where the image search tab usually is, and there’s no way to hide/turn it off. Nice
You could probably block it using the element picker tool in ublock origin
Good old conduit search
Anyone here remember “The Sweet Page”?
What is that?
It was this browser. Typical spyware stuff for the time. For some reason I always managed to get it on my computer when I was younger.
ah this brings back memories
