Because they weren’t made as stylish. If you had that exact same tv, but with wood-style paneling and the occasional velvet lining, it would be exactly as charming. Nice style has been phased out over time, being reserved for extremely expensive versions of appliances instead of being the standard.
And like, that’s not to say there’s literally no nice style in anything these days, but the average product tends to look… bland and cheap.
I do appreciate being able to use my mouse with the newer designs, though.
The last few times I even had to disable it, there was no setting for it. RegEdit was the way to disable the search-in-start-menu stuff.
But regardless, I’m still talking about seeing this issue on a fresh install. That’s definitely not something that happens because I fiddle with settings.
I saw it all the time. It drove me nuts. I’m not sure how you literally never see it, because my clean and fresh installs of windows always worked this way until I did a RegEdit update to kill the websearch in it.
I always dug into RegEdit to disable this crap. And somehow, each time, it was a different series of steps.
Just leaving the valley of despair, i suppose?
It’s not a terrible idea. ChatGPT is great at summarizing info, especially stuff you’d use manuals for. I make sure to ask it where certain info came from (so I can try to verify) OR having it explain its approach so I get it in the future.
Pixel 6, I believe.
How much of a risk is GraphenOS to install? I really don’t wanna brick my phone.
oh fuck that’s even worse.
Look, if it takes you 2 days to debloat windows, linux is gonna take a real fucking while to learn right.
Honestly, using Linux Mint lately and it’s been far smoother than my previous linux attempts. Granted, there’s much better tech today to help, but yeah it’s been nice. My only sadness is not getting my singular Xbox App game playable on linux.
What’s made Arch better for you?
Buy freezer or shelf-stable microwave meals? You have food that way but it shouldn’t really just “go bad”. At least, not quickly.
Do be fair, that’s less because the fundamentals behind programming are changing and more because the specific implementations are changed all the damn time.
oh good to hear. I heard about windows doing jank stuff on update recently and was really worried I’d have to fight with it soon.
It’s been a while since I saw it, and I don’t plan on re-finding nor rewatching just to figure out what I hated at the time. I recall it was one about electricity, and there was something about claims that are fundamentally impossible within the realms of physics.
Sorry, Veritasium. And it’s been a while since I’ve watched his stuff, so I don’t remember which videos annoyed me. I know there was one that involved electricity that was just extremely wrong in a few key ways.
You should probably note what they focus on so people know.
Yeah he’s the kind of wealth that helps you realize why people ever supported the wealthy. They used to actually have an understanding that keeping their wealth meant keeping employees, customers, and people at large happy and safe – and they’d be willing to put in the effort (or rather, money) to ensure it.