:windows-cool::stalin-gun-1::tux:

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This won’t go over well with companies who use windows. They barely trust Microsoft and the ads and ad-tracking means they will trust it even less.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Businesses with "Enterprise Licenses" will be able to disable these ads by toggling the double-secret security setting that lives in the underbelly of the registry.

      Its the retail consumer versions installed on Memaw and Pep Pep's machines that are going to turn their desktops into a Geocities screen from the 90s.

      • corgiwithalaptop [any, love/loves]
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        2 years ago

        Wait can I turn off that information bar junk in W10 via regedits? I'm comfortable doing that if its possible. The only thing I open that for is 1) if I'm trying to fuck with audio stuff and click the wrong icon, or 2) occasionally checking the weather

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          I know there's some kind of setting somewhere that controls both the source of the data and the conditions under which it is displayed. What those are by edition? Idk. I'd have to research that. But a bit of clever Google-fu or membership in the right Discord or Reddit thread might illuminate the answer.

    • ennemi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They'll do what they usually do when a big name tech partner degrades service or product quality, which is to say lie down belly up like a Golden Retriever and hope for the best