Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software

Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by GlennS on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:51PM (#26096890)

I still do it. I've no use for Dell's live support app and whatever else they ship.

The difference now is that you also have to:

1. Uninstall Candy Crush and similar.

2. Disable Cortana.

3. Disable ads and internet search for your Start button.

4. Click through several small greyed out buttons to have a local account instead of cloud account.

5. Do some of these things again whenever an update nukes part of your settings.

As a bonus, they still haven't fixed the decades old thing in file manager where all your directories default to displaying in stupid mode.

In short: pay for the professional version of Windows or prepare to be annoyed.

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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by bitexploder on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @09:04PM (#26097393)

Win Pro still annoys me. And they have telemetry baked deep into the OS. Pass. Same for macOS these days. Linux is quickly becoming the only viable privacy preserving OS.

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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by shscs911 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:09AM (#26099344)

Is there any way to disable web search in Start Menu without Registry hack?

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Re:Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software by lupire on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @11:30PM (#26098274)

Seems fair. If you want to pay bargain basement prices, you get bargain basement junk.

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