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"uninstalled" ... til the first automatic update π
HI! I'm Skype!
uninstall
Hi! I'm Skype!
uninstall
Hi! I'm skype!
"Are you suuuuure you don't want to use Edge? Are you suuuuure you don't want it to be the default handler for .pdf and .svg files? Are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? Just in case, we'll pin it to your start menu again and put a shortcut to it on your desktop. Just until you're sure."
Apple's starting to get more and more into this. Safari pesters you and nobody wants NEWS/Stocks/AppleTv App, Weather, etc. But you can't uninstall them :(
I was able to uninstall all of the apps you just mentioned on iPhone just to cure my curiosity.
Which Apple device is not letting you uninstall those apps?
MacOS not iPhone. Should have specified
No worries! I was just a little confused when I tried it on my iPhone and it worked.
Thatβs what sudo rm -rf is for π. Iβm going to try this on my Mac to satisfy my curiosity! Will report back.
If only it were that easy. You have to disable SIP basically permanently if you want to do that and I'm not confident enough to do that quite yet, much as I do love to live dangerously. Maybe someone who understands this all better might chime in on the tradeoffs or risks/benefits.
Iβm kinda shocked that it didnβt work (tried it)! From what Iβve come to understand, the system wonβt boot after removing a stock app since the checksum of the system partition changes. Whilst Iβm in favour of keeping the OS healthy that way, some of the stock apps should definitely not have been included in that partition. However, today I learned!
Yes but you can bury a "CrApple" folder on the last page
I can always count on at least one idiot to mention Apple in a Microsoft hate thread.
I think you should go back to Reddit if you want to engage with people like that just crazy right out of the gate
Ew, a gatekeeper.
Weren't you just gatekeeping Microsoft-hate-threads?
Nope.
I pointed out the reliability of such a response.
Big difference between pointing out something vs demanding it stop.
You can do all of that without being an asshole
If calling someone an idiot on the internet is your bar for being an asshole. You're in for a hell of a ride.
Oh okay! just the... reliability... of a... demand? a demand which... starts with "I think"?
Well good thing your pointing is so reliable!
Thanks.
I got so annoyed with the fucking shortcut reappearing that I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.
Just out of sight and out of mind.
lol I did the exact same thing. That and all the unnecessary crap my work installs that I will never use but can't even uninstall the damn shortcuts they slap on my desktop are all jammed in the corner of a monitor off to the side.
And then they made it where you can't just select a different browser, you have to go manually associate each type with the new browser.
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Cortana is being killed and replaced with their ChatGPT Bing thing.
Why does Microsoft hate Halo so much
Itβs a successful consumer product. Canβt have that under the Microsoft umbrella
Microsoft will punish Halo for each and every fan that failed to spend $2000 on mtx armor colors
Does that mean the AI thing will be unable to be uninstalled?
Probably. It will be an "essential" part of the OS, like Edge.
Which means it'll probably be training on literally everything you do on the computer and reporting it all back to Microsoft
Sounds like a good reason to get rid of windows π
Which is also when they regularly try and get you to mistakenly click a button to make Edge your default browser. Scummy dark patterns.
I never got unwanted stuff back after update.
Its seemed... better lately. But I used to get skype back every single update when 11 first came out.
They also fuck with privacy settings too on uodate...
Switched to Linux after that shit.
I don't know about Windows 11, but my Windows 10 instance also reverts my "fast startup" setting on every major update. I know this, because my PC's motherboard does not work with "fast" startup and instead takes about half an hour to get from POST to desktop when it's enabled. Suffice to say that I know when Microsoft changes this setting behind my back. I have it disabled for a reason, fuckheads.
AMD?
I've got a Gigabyte Auros Elite X570 with the 5600. I have to disable fast boot from BIOS because it causes my computer to boot up much more slowly.
I think Fast Boot is more about screwing up anything third party.
If it's on, it bollixes up the wireless card if you reboot into Linux. But even without dual-booting, it seems to leave USB devices active that I don't want (specifically a USB->serial adaptor with a peripheral danging off of it)
Do you have a pro or enterprise license?