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    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That might be acceptable if they didn't turn at least half of the bullshit back on with every bigger update. And some things just can't be turned off. E.g last time I checked it was impossible to tell Windows not to “recommend” setting edge as default browser in the fucking start menu.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Who told you it was impossible? Let me be clear, the things Windows support people say are "impossible" certainly are possible, they just aren't recommended or authorized by Microsoft i.e. Breaking License Validator for endless Valid activation.

    The really "impossible" ones often require a lot of work, such as patching dlls or exe files, they're still possible though. Microsoft and their stans can argue "but security" but the fact of the matter is that windows is already insecure garbage, it's not going to get any better and arguments that it will are almost 100% cope. If security was a real concern they would've jumped ship long ago to a Unix system like Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yeah, and if you patch things like this you break updates completely. Luckily I switched to Linux before thinking of doing bullshit like that.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I've already tried it before, can confirm it breaks updates completely, also breaks the UWP apps since they depend on update functionality to keep working.

    Should note that even though I still have the computer it was installed on I don't use it anymore, I've moved on to better Hardware and Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Its time to start replacing dll files

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    pro tip: replace all the dll files at once using mkfs.ext4

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I got an error when trying to do so

    ' mkfs.ext4' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    You can download it here

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

    Just get brave browser and set that as the default. No issue.