#that's bloatware

[chipped-chimera]

Well fuck you too Windows. Wonder why they're pushing this-

Ah. That's why.

Anyone got some good Linux resources for someone who hasn't touched that shit in their entire life? My big concern is whether I can even move my huge game library over + software or if it's just going to be a massive headache.

Otherwise the only thing stopping my PC from actually working with Windows 11 is installing a chip onto the mobo.

[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

[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

[obaewankenope]

Yo, heads up y'all! Important info here to save your compute from Windows™ torture!

Revo Uninstaller (you can get a free version here) is great for uninstalling programmes off your computer. It even has a Windows App tab where you can murder the crappy bloatware including Cortana that Windows™ shoves down our throats with every update.

Get it.

Destroy the bloatware.

Destroy it.

[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.

[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*

[unethicalgays]

this only makes sense to me but:

corrupting a "one of the good ones" assimilationist gay person into a sweaty hairy kinky depraved queer

is the same as

taking your poor windows 11 adware bloatware computer and stripping it of all its ads and bloatware and maybe if you really want to suck it silly fully uninstall windows and make him run linux

[feybeasts]

Honestly, the next time I have the spoons, I should run a growth drive. Might actually be fun to see just how much burger you can give a foxxish construct…

[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/

[greencheekconure27]

Isn't it fucked up how phones come with 20 useless Google apps but no proper music player these days? One that is Just a program that plays the MP3 files on your phone and doesn't try to sell you anything?

And how all the free ones seem come with unskippable ads now?

This is some bullshit.

[elbiotipo]

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

[ancient-string]

I have realised that the thing slowing down and heating up my phone was *ads*. Fucking animated constant fucking ads were causing my phone to overheat and move at a sluggish pace.

I have deleted the game (spider solitaire) that was one of the worst and have also deleted the tumblr app. Using tumblr purely through the browser seems to have completely fixed the problem.

[fakeasmr]

my PC: hey uhh we're ending support for this mildly decent version of windows in like a year, so how about you go ahead and upgrade btw even if you say no we're gonna take you to the download page so you have to say no twice

me: