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[–] werefreeatlast 14 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Like when you buy the thing sooner? Cuz we would remove all the bloatware they add. They used to do that to computers and we just stopped buying those shit things and building our own.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Shit man. I used to work at a Circuit City at the height of bloated shitty Celeron PCs.

We would be forced to sell a "system optimization" on each PC we sold. It was just a script that uninstalled a few of the bloatware items and tweaked the animation speed to make the customer think we did something incredible.

I fucking hated that job!

[–] FangedWyvern42 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s just straight up a scam

[–] Lennny 1 points 3 months ago

Did you not see they said circuit city? Probably felt it was redundant to call it a scam.

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