First of all, tips will automatically get enabled during some updates.

Secondly, tips notifictions telling you to use microsoft crap are not the only ads. You get fullscreen ads for office after booting that are made to look exactly like an installer, you get edge literally spamming you with popups when you try downloading another browser (that’s closer to malware than an ad but I’ll let it count).

You get ads in the settings menu as well and if you try to edit a video like you could on windows 7, you get the “fuck you, pay a subscription”.

You also get ads in your start menu and of course, don’t forget the start menu search that will rather show you a bing page full of ads than actually search for your files.

Please stop defending this bullshit, it benefits no one but microsoft and is actively making the world a worse place.

I’d say firefox doesn’t qualify as OS but I get your point, distros do ship it by default.

The good thing is that those ads are just defaults, not permanently baked in. I can get rid of them in about 2 minutes. Mozilla doesn’t sell your usage data so they need another way of funding themselves and I don’t think there’s a better way to do it.

At least they use that to sell you the hardware for cheap. Microsoft doesn’t provide anything of value like that. In fact, they charge people for the OS and then have the audacity to add ads.

Any microsoft application. Constant bugs, crashes and a tendency to break everything if you accidentally use them in any other way than microsoft intended.

Also, ads in a fucking operation system? I don’t see how anyone can find that acceptable.

Then toyota and honda are your best bet. Change the oil a little earlier than recommended and they will last 300k miles.

I like to listen to synthwave when driving and I can recommend ‘Rivera Rivera’ and ‘Inexdra’ as well as ‘Cartridge 1987’.

The latter has some great songs that tell a story without any words.

Excel already makes it easy to create shit that’s absolutely unmaintaimable, this will just make that much worse.

Because python wasn’t slow enough already.

At this point microsoft is actively hurting technological progress all around the world by doing stupid shit like this. I don’t see how anyone could actually support stuff like this.

I agree and now I find myself moving my entire digital life off of big tech platforms and towards free software to escape this madness.

The good old internet still exists and lemmy is living proof. You just need to dig a little because the corporate search engines won’t show you. sdf.org for example is a nice little corner of the internet.

That’s already a thing on the steam deck and it works with almost any game.

Microsoft could implement it for Windows too, but people will want still use their computer when pausing a game so it’s a lot harder to do.

Implementation probably. Checkpoints are easy because you don’t have to save the entire game state, just the progression.

The good old GNU/Linux quote.

I like Stallman’s ideas on free software but this whole GNU/Linux thing is an absolute waste of time and I hate how it still gets brought up.

Looking at any kind of politics and how it changed over the last 10 or so years, it’s a clear no from me.

If it’s a coffee machine that’s so advanced it was uninaginable a decade ago, you’d expect it not to perform worse over time.

If you press “not interested” on every single clickbait video and use ublock origin and sponsorblock, it’s not bad at all. I’m shocked whenever I see the site without being logged in, the entire page is filled with trash and ads and I need to scroll quite a while before finding anything I’d even consider watching.

But I do agree, paying money for that shit is stupid since there are much better ways to support creators.

Elite Dangerous. People have guides on how to do things like earning money fast, but those methods usually require a lot of thinking and planning with a notebook.

I’m getting a timeout, so apparently it is.

Ah yes, good old ttt_teenroom.

Those maps make callouts very easy because pretty much everything has a name already, so you don’t need to argue about what’s what.

The reddit API thing started because reddit thought they owned the content and could lock it behind a paywall for people who want training data. But that fundamentally isn’t the case, so that whole thing backfired.

If someone wants to own the content and restrict access, they have to distribute it on their own instead of using a public platform. Lemmy is the wrong tool for that.