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    Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    I can't believe a paid OS needs a tool like this. Here's a GUI tool called OFGB (Oh Frick Go Back) to remove all the ads in Windows 11. It's understandable if a free OS or app needs ad support, but this is just crazy github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB

    [Screenshot Of a GUI Tool To Removes Ads From Various Places Around Windows 11]

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    [–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Genuinely where is the line for people still putting up with this stuff?

    [–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I think that it's one of the benefits of monopoly. People don't think "I wonder if I should start checking out alternatives?" but instead "Damn, that's annoying. I wonder if there's a way to fix this?" Alternatives never even enter their head. See, there's already a tool for the problem in the post!

    [–] AVengefulAxolotl 1 points 7 months ago

    Yeah sadly, whenever you say PC / Laptop people associate it with windows. You buy one of these, its windows. People dont even know what else is out there.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Yeah that went out the window when American corpos found out during the pandemic they can literally just keep raising prices for shittier product and Americans just… keep buying it

    Welcome to the end of human society, we’re just getting started. Should have chosen a birthdate a few decades earlier, too bad!

    [–] madcaesar 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The worst thing about the future is that everything is fucking data mining and ads. Yes, EVERYTHING, from cars to fucking refrigerators.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

    Follow this simple tutorial to get root access to your fridge and install a foss OS ...

    [–] kautau 14 points 7 months ago

    And subscriptions. Once hyper capitalism got its whiff of subscriptions there was no turning back.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

    For bullshit like spinning rims or golf clubs that wouldn't surprise me but it's not like I can just choose not to eat. I HAVE to buy food.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    I think for many people, me included the OS is more or less invisible bc I use so few OS elements. File browser and that's it. Hardly any other gui feature comes to mind that isn't a third party program.

    [–] TwanHE 2 points 7 months ago

    Putting up with the ads or putting up with the workarounds?

    Since I've been running debloated windows since win 7 it has never bothered me to run a few scripts after install or use a modded iso. But if that wasn't an option I'm not sure if the last few games holding me to windows would be enough.