BTW I’m pretty sure you can get the WiFi working.
And for most use case you’ll want to get rid of the GUI. In Debian’s case, best to reinstall the so-called minimal or netinst image.
I know the Rufus software.
So you’re saying you installed windows from a selfmade installation medium, that you further had to massage, without internet connection? That’s not really an option on our work laptops.
I actually also did this to some machines; I gave them to their respective owners right away so I don’t know if they have no ads.
I installed with a local account using Rufus
I don’t really understand this, sorry.
went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack.
This makes sense to me because most ads/unsolicited information seems to stem from there.
It’s funny that on Windows you have to install a third-party app to change the OS’s behavior. I doubt I’ll be allowed to do that :(
Word!
edit: oops, no pun intended. Just a shoutout, like “well said!”
That’s the worst thing about dealing with Windows machines at work: it’s not just the browser that needs an adblocker!
And I’m not going through 20 laptops to disable that (is it even possible) unless I get paid for it.
+1 for netcup 👍
Doesn’t something like this exist already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_search_engine
No.
AI search offers me nothing that “normal” search doesn’t also offer.
But it uses a thousand times more resources.
10 years ago people were shocked by the size of Google’s server halls. Now imagine the increase in size/numbers through AI.
Fuck this shit. The internet isn’t what’s driving the climate catastrophe, it’s how people use it.
IDK, I’ve always been more about the software/OS. Don’t really care about the hardware as long as it does the tasks I give it.
It’s not a stretch.
Q-Anon evolved from joking/trolling/shitposting/whatever_its_called on 4chan, some disinformation narratives share common roots with early internet satire.
I realise that’s not exactly what you meant, but I’m sure you see the common thread.
I have to double take to make sure it’s The Onion and not real.
TBF that’s always been the deeper point of satire.
I was thinking the same today: if the White House had fabricated an April Fool’s joke it would be unrecognizable - unless they developed a really black sense of humor and made a press release like “Trump tells SCOTUS to overturn immunity ruling”.
Incidentally, comedians all over the globe have been bitterly complaining about Trump stealing their show since 2016.
I recommend MPD and a cli frontend like
ncmpcpp(horrible name, good software).