• foofiepie@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Ads aside, I see they’re making the terrible mistake Apple Music made by blurring the distinction between your own content, and promoted content.

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      6 months ago

      It’s exclusively a local tool, isn’t it? You can index a network share but the index still is local and has to be done for each user, right?

      Looking for a simple (preferably FOSS) tool to index file shares for a handful of users at their own PCs.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    There is a reg key to add that disables bing search.

    What I fucking hate, is that I exclusively use the start menu to start apps I’ve installed, but typing in the name of an app doesn’t show the installed app at all, just fucking ads. They literally took away the only functionality of the start menu unless I do a very intuitive method of reverting it.

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          Ha, what a delightful way to share! Figured it would be easy enough to Internet search, but this way, others reading the thread will be more inclined to enable it when it is just right in the conversation.

          Edit: Holy crap, this finally got rid of the weird start menu lag where it used to be “hit win key, type fir, launch firefox” to “hit win key…start menu freezes with no typing, a second modal window floats above it, sometimes in arbitrary locations on the screen (likely because I told Edge to not run in the background ever so it always cold-starts) then “fir” appears there, or sometimes “ir” or sometimes “r” or sometimes nothing.” Just to run a program.

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            6 months ago

            I saw this meme and saved it in my notes for later. It seemed the easiest way to share

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    6 months ago

    If it opened on the default browser it would be several times less infuriating, but clicking on anything by mistake and then waiting for Edge to open with all the prompts because you never use it makes me furious

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      6 months ago

      No wonder people are jumping through hoops to delete Edge. Condolences, that’s a lot of bullshit on a machine you own.

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    6 months ago

    Thank gods I’m able to use Linux for my work PC. Group policy and enterprise config can only hide so much of Windows’s BS.

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      6 months ago

      If by “only so much” you mean every BS thing in OP’s image, sure.

      To be clear, you can turn off all web content in the search menu/start menu search.

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      6 months ago

      There’s so many tools to do it, too. It’s kind of upsetting how many independent devs are investing their time towards removing this garbage instead of literally anything else.

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      6 months ago

      I recently switched to Windows 10 LTSC (from Windows 10). Would recommend that as well to people looking to avoid Windows 11.

      I’m not if it’s really any easier to find and install than the other debloat methods out there, but I thought it was pretty simple.