I was also thinking like that until I discovered that the only dude on XDA that was packaging all kind of roms for my short lived Xiaomi, was doing it on random servers (hacked servers? He was always complaining on his telegram channel that he couldn’t find VMs with enough RAM or that “didn’t last enough”) and he sold the phone one year before so couldn’t test it. Just running a script and if it compiles, it ships.

After I finished to read his telegram channel I restored the original android 8 firmware and flipped it on eBay…

Should be the bare minimum

I stopped buying Xiaomi because they switched from “monthly updates for years to come” (until around mi 5-6) to “a single update in the phone lifetime, if you’re lucky” (RIP those idiots who purchased an expensive mix 3 5g and never saw any update) passing from “we gonna push ota updates without testing, you might softbrick LOL”

Although is understandable because they churn out 1 new phone every week, I guess it’s extremely tiring compiling and testing software for all those variants /s

They copy everything from the iPhone, they don’t copy the best part. Just three new models every year, updates for years. Why the opposite? People is going to lose track of what’s better between the mi 13s pro x and the Redmi note 16x pro 5g. Especially when you add more chaos by rebadging that Redmi as poco x33 pro 5g but changing some bits here and there to make software incompatible

If it’s a small website like the one you screenshotted, yes, I disable the adblocker for them.

If the website is unreadable without an adblocker like XDA, then fuck them, I’m going to block the adblocker-blocker

Maybe it’s a regional thing. After all the function primary purpose is to serve ads (sponsored content) and drive visits to bing, so there’s a chance that this malware-like behavior is enabled only in specific countries that drive more ad revenue

The dialog goes away after a short time defaulting to “yes I want the useless search bar”

It happened on all my PCs, I was infuriated

maybe you need to try again.

Instructions:

1. install any windows 10 version released before october 2023
2. disable the search bar
3. install KB5015684 (or wait 2-3 days for it install automatically)
4. windows has added back the search bar “for your convenience”

no no no, it asked your permission. It’s just that the “we added back the search bar, is that ok” dialog defaults to “yes” after some short time. Extremely fucking annoying change

the dialog:

article: https://www.c-amie.co.uk/technical/windows-10-patch-for-october-2023-kb5015684-re-enables-the-taskbar-search-box/

originally it was hosted in the .org domain, then somehow it changed hands and it was changed to .io

In the github issues the dev is aware of this but he’s not completely enraged, just mildly infuriated that the design is too similar and he’s politely asking to have a different design.

From the history in the wayback machine i don’t see any “parking” page between the switch, so my guesswork is that the dev has been approached with an offer like “we like that domain, we would like to buy it for $$$”, unaware that they would copy the design like that in order to achieve maximum deception of users

Is it possible to create an alias like fuckchange@domain?

I Always click on those ads to waste their daily budget

Friend? What’s that?

And it seems like because of the content deal they got https://www.businessinsider.com/why-reddit-is-taking-over-google-right-now-2024-4

I was preferring the scenario where reddit wanted to block Google because “they don’t need the visits” https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925504/reddit-deny-force-log-in-see-posts-ai-companies-deals

I see more spambots trying to monetize on desperate people. People try the link in the password field, that goes in a rabbit hole of concatenated ad.fly link “shorteners” that only show endless ads

Well at least finally after three long years Microsoft added the option to combine icons on the taskbar.

Without that option, explorerpatcher was a forced install on w11

Now it’s possible to live without it

I like this

https://github.com/mag37/dockcheck

Wait for the next month release of scale, it very surprisingly comes with jails. You install a Linux distro in a jail then run gluetun+qbit via docker

It sees that I’m with a different browser locale and it automatically redirects to a different website, that gives a 404 error. Hate those “helpful” sites with a passion

What’s the content of the page, downloads of books from the 80s?

Yes but then vanguard and blackrock (they control about 15% of m$ shares) saw that their investment in AMD (again, with 15% they’re the biggest institutional shareholders) and their investment in Intel (more billions in shares) needed a way to increase CPU sales, so they told Microsoft to add artificial CPU requirements in order to send to the dumpster any computer produced before 2018

i always tell myself to write something like this but then i never have the time or the willing to do so…

i’m interested too if there’s this