#No Bloatware

[vmantras]

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[jingyismom]

does anybody know of a thing where you can like. run a wash cycle inside your brain. clear out all the gunk. power wash and fluff up those brain cells. take it to the car wash

[virovirokun-has-adhd]

ANDROID USERS

Check your Installed Apps for an app called ‘Android System SafetyCore’ (Settings > Installed Apps). If it is there, IT HAS BEEN SHADOW-INSTALLED WITHOUT NOTIFICATION OR CONSENT AND LOOKS AT YOUR PICTURES. < as well as this it has also been reported that it drains battery

DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY, IT IS SPYWARE!!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore <- it wont show up in searches so use this link!

i just uninstalled it from my phone

[iwonderwh0]

Technically Connor is preinstalled with Trojan in his system.

[elbiotipo]

still fucking pissed off that Microsoft Office uses like 70% of my RAM just STANDING THERE. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SHOW WORDS AND SHEETS. WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CONSUME SO MUCH RAM. I HAD WINDOWS 98, YOU DID NOT FUCKING CONSUME THIS MUCH RAM THEN YOU BLOATED PIECE OF SHIT

[gnome-de-official]

Found these right in a row

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[scaththefloof]

I love it when I'm talking about my setup and someone says that a package that I have is bloat.

Computers are bloat go back to using paper

air, food, and water is bloat literally just live bro

[cephiwyrm]

gotta love how the more and quicker my technology breaks the more I'm inclined to never use anything that's smart again

[coupleofdays]

The term "bloatware" is usually used to mean software that is considered unnecessary or unwanted by the user, often referring to various programs pre-installed by the hardware manufacturer, but never actually used by the consumer.

I can imagine "bloatware" being a particularly rude insult in the Tron universe. Programs are usually portrayed as building their identities and sense of self-worth around the idea that their functions are important to the Users. Suggesting that your function is unnecessary and unwanted, that you're just taking up precious disk space and isn't part of the "great plan" of the Users, would be a horrible accusation.

Maybe it could even be a slur that Programs use against ISOs, since many consider them to be without function or purpose.

[phoebastria-albatrus]

holds my hand out For the love of god uninstall co-pilot. for me

[woodsfae]

My four year old laptop has been developing issue on issue on issue. The bottom case broke and has to be used only on a flat surface. It kept running slower and slower, then started overheating and bluescreening regularly. For months it wouldn't start up at all, then randomly did one day and hasn't faked its own death since.

I didn't do anything about the broken case but I ran many different windows bloatware removers, permanently disabled the touch screen, and uninstalled and disabled anything that ate up the CPU on start-up that I couldn't turn off in settings. Tried many times to uninstall Edge (damn you Windows) and finally decided to replace the broken case and upgrade the RAM as a final hurrah before I start looking for a new laptop. Combined cost of $40 for the 8gb of RAM upgrade (from 4gb) and case, plus my high nerves at never having done repairs before.

Well I did it. And it's running much better! I found a few more CPU gobbling windows bloatwares to delete as well and it's running like a dream.

but I'm even more afraid it's going to poop out now because 😬 when I opened up the laptop I saw that the CPU, which is integrated into the motherboard and cannot be replaced or upgraded, looks like this:

I am 100% sure it is not supposed to look like that.

*incoherently screaming and backing up my files*

[angryisokay]

is it possible to build something that looks like a laptop but actually it's just a shell that connects to a pc tower hidden away behind the couch or something?

because looking at newer laptops, they've gotten rid of even more pieces [why is half the keyboard is gone? an invisible touchpad?? usbc only??? microsd only???], and every goddamned thing comes with built in AI bullshit.

[declawedwildcat]

had to get a new phone and im pretty sure setting it up is going to make me become the Joker

[d1mndnthr0ugh]

maybe this isn't a hot take but system files should not be allowed to take up 30% of the advertised storage on your device

I get that 32gb isn't exactly massive anymore and I don't know much about operating systems

but surely you can fit all the necessary parts of an android into less than 10 gigs

now my samsung galaxy tab a is by no means a new device, I think it's about four or five years old and hadn't gotten an update in probably a year now

but at this point I'm not sure if it's slowing down because of age or because the system files are intentionally bloating my storage

it said 9.51gb yesterday

[nando161mando]

Stop using blatant, monopolistic, persistently worsening malware, and switch to Firefox 🦊

https://prism-break.org/en/

https://12ft.io/

https://www.removepaywall.com/

https://www.hackthissite.org/

[elbiotipo]

Hay que prohibir que las aplicaciones se actualizen por 30 años.