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@graveyardclubbing

moved to yearz3r0, all follows/likes show up as this blog. 24
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todaysbird

if you’re an amateur artist you are so fucking awesome. please don’t stop creating just because it’s hard. even if you have time constraints. fuck yeah draw on that napkin. fuck yeah paint for five minutes a day until you feel ‘done’. create that shit!!!

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e-102

ya know i try to be like a responsible adult, and be kind to people younger than me. but as i grow older i find that i really think fandom stagnates your critical thinking abilities. i’m not sure if it’s always been this way because i remember when i was younger and stupider, i felt that fandom was a good place to discuss and dissect media and that it gave me good insight to the shows i was watching/comics i read. now i feel like looking at any fan communities is absolute garbage.... it’s always about shipping, it’s always about angst. discussion is without nuance and wholly centered around who was ‘right’ in a given situation.

oh god and another thing, i see people who participate in fandoms of media who’s source material they have never even engaged in. like pure indulgence without ever having to think critically or analytically. and i mean never, ever, in anyway (watching/playing/reading/listening) engaged in the source. they have not even watched a play through of it if it’s a video game they just hop online and look at a remixed version of the same shit they always look at. i’m not going to be nice about this one you are legitimately not doing your brain or critical thinking skills a favor.

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flakmaniak

So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.

But specifically... I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one's own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!

This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between "things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)" (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and "things on the web" (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).

Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I'm interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!

If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!

Specific programs can access the internet; that's fine. But my OS's functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.

Literally spent multiple hours lobotomizing my Windows reinstall when I upgraded recently, the amount of awful shit they had in nowadays makes me long for the age of win98, when software was merely bad, rather than actively harmful.

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leylin3

the exact setting in shutup10 for this issue is "Disable extension of Windows 10 search with Bing" it's at the very bottom under misc.

There are 2 programs that will turn Windows 10 from an advertising riddled, bloated mess into a useful tool.

With one click, this will remove ALL THE BLOATWARE Windows comes with. Seriously, you need NONE OF THESE apps, and if you do, you can just uninstall all the ones you don't need individually.

This program will give you almost complete control over Windows 10's behavior. Disabling the web search in the start menu, op rightfully complained about, is just one of the many things this thing can do

For example, with a single setting you can turn off any ads from microsoft, system-wide

It is a powerful tool, but it can be a bit overwhelming. Luckily every single setting comes with an explanation about what it actually does, and most settings can be easily reversed.