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Given the reality that Linux simply isn’t viable for some people (including myself), I highly recommend using this tool.

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

Between this, and manually uninstalling a lot of bloat (or using a specific type of windows install) and a few other tweaks, windows becomes significantly more usable.

Disabling garbage in the task bar, removing Cortana and indexing services, etc etc, it can also add a fairly decent uplift in performance.

I’m sure there is still telemetry being collected but significantly less and less impact on my user experience and day to day performance.

Oh and make sure you turn off auto/feature updates!

I never liked Twitter to begin with, once it became an unabashed environment for hate it was a piece of cake to close my account.

I actually agree with him, and I am not an employee of the gaming industry. In the mid 90s N64 carts were freaking $79.99 at one point early on! I realize part of this is because the carts were expensive, but even CD based games were not THAT far behind at $49.99 or $59.99 as I recall. I realize they don't have the same physical distribution costs, but game prices really have not kept up with inflation. Growing up it was a big freaking deal to get a new NES game you damn well better learn to love it, like it or not haha. Now… games are generally much more affordable for the average family, plus if you just wait a bit and don't buy on release (barring Nintendo 1st party titles) they are way cheaper!

It’s abysmal at this point… Whatever they did to it, the results are now awful and far more inaccurate than they were a few months back.

I don’t know where you got that info from but that is certainly not the norm… There are Tesla cabs in Vegas with over a million miles, and most of these battery packs retain close to 90% of their capacity even after 10 years. I’m sure there are exceptions, but 3 years is silly.

Yes there are problems and hurdles to overcome but I’d rank that pretty low.

My experience mirrors this, though I don’t use it for much beyond a specific use case… I’m wondering why they neutered it so much?

It’s awesome right?? Really impressed with the tool!

GPT has been utter garbage lately. I feel as though it’s somehow become worse. I use it as a search engine alternative and it has RARELY been correct lately. I will respond to it, telling it that it is incorrect, and it will keep generating even more inaccurate answers… It’s to the point where it almost becomes entirely useless, where sometimes it used to find some of the correct information.

I don’t know what they did in 4.0 or whatever it is, but it’s just plain bad.

This is one of the best tools I’ve used, works really well!

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

There were many factors that changed people’s opinions of him, and for me it has absolutely nothing to do with “the media.”

Remember when he randomly called a guy a pedophile on Twitter who saved the kids in the cave rescue, all because they didn’t use his submarine idea?

That was the turning point for me 5 years ago, and he’s gone downhill ever since. The reason he was the golden child of tech for many left leaning individuals is because he was pushing forward electric vehicles in a manner no one else had the will to.

He also happens to be a piece of shit as a human being… Nothing to do with “the media.”

That is crazy!

How much VC is really being invested at the moment? I know a variety of people at start ups and the money is very tight at the moment given the current interest rate environment.

And here I am… I’ve never even tried it.

Freshwater Snail??? So that thought experiment is actually kind of real if you piss one off enough? Well…