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Re:Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected by renewiltord on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:30AM (#37987135)
Guys, it's beautiful in its own way that we're still complaining about MacOS and Windows bloat for having wallpapers and shit. This is fucking brilliant. This was happening when my hard disk was 2.1 GB and it's happening now that my SSD is 1 TB. I actually really love this sort of continuity. It means that out there there will still be people upset that vimscript is included in vim. Or people that are arguing about BSD v. GPL.

It's like the 10th man thing in that Israel stuff. Someone has to intentionally disagree with the mainstream and just worry about long tail shit. You never know when that 32 MB video file included with the OS is too much. But he will know, guardian of the space. Love it. Genuinely.

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Re:Windows 11: The number you have dialed has been disconnected by giantrobot on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:54AM (#37987502)
What's funny is that the complaints about screensavers and wallpapers on macOS are just wrong. The assets are stored "in the cloud" and downloaded when needed. This has been true since Sierra or so where it started with Siri voices and printer drivers. All sorts of shit that used to be packed in the installers is now loaded dynamically.

It's not a perfect system but it's fucking ridiculous to complain about wallpapers. But it's The Register. They have ten fantasy criticisms they use for strawman arguments for any single legit criticism.

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