Anti spam tools are pretty damn good nowadays, and then you have things like “focused inbox” features on top of that. Plus all the laws about simple unsubscribe options.

Not sure there’s much dry brush to catch on that front.

I legitimately have not had virus issues with Windows in over a decade. Using uBlock Origin for ad blocking and the built in Microsoft antivirus. Every few months for the first few years I’d put it through the wringer of a bunch of USB-bootable antivirus scanners. They kept finding nothing, so I slowed and eventually stopped bothering.

Common sense and an ad blocker do wonders.

Usually not ones that are still compatible with modern cell tower networks.

You absolutely can remove every app (including hidden base OS functionality that is packaged as an installed app) through ADB, or through tools like Shizuku that give you effectively “on-device” ADB. There are GUI based apps to do this for both PC and runnable on Android itself.

It’s not easily accessible for the average user, but it’s literally easier than flashing a custom OS, if you’re already looking into that level of things.

It’s one of the better ones, and basic functionality is braindead, but I’ve definitely found some pain points.

• My work requires us to use company branded video chat backgrounds 🤮. Whatever way my co-worker deployed them, they aren’t available through the mobile app.
• There’s a feature to create unified groups (Teams groups) with membership lists hidden from non-members. It is only available through PowerShell.
• Got users that want to use their group like a distribution list? They all have to personally choose to subscribe to incoming email. You can set the group to auto-subscribe new members, but subscribing existing members requires some basic PowerShell fuckery.
• Sharepoint backend for file sharing. Less said about that shit the better.
• If a user’s display name updates, how it syncs to different places that display their name in Teams and how long that takes is inconsistent as all hell.
• Better hope you never get a ticket from your legal team to pull chat history. Pain in the ass to do, horrid fucking output format.
• No way I’ve found to disable the damn upsell “Get Premium” button. Granted I haven’t checked in a while.

Paywall. What is visible indicates cuts to arts and languages degrees.

Lol, are you kidding? IT gets to experience the suck of using it, and of administrating it. For as bad as the front end of Microsoft stuff is, the back end is usually worse.

Yeah, this particular “orbiting circles” thing is somewhat common in sci-fi media, even the “it lines up and stops” part.

I think that’s likely why you’re getting negative responses. People look at your (neat) animation and go “oh, look generic sci-fi macguffin” but see you acting like you think it’s some sort of hidden or alien knowledge then think you’re a crackpot.

Wish I could say I’m surprised.

Only 6?

Elias Thorne, goblins and ghouls, is there somewhere all these “sticky topics” have been aggregated?

fun fact: a few months before the big crowdstirke incident, they did the same thing to their Linux customers. I can only assume it didn’t make headlines due to lower adoption rates and what I suspect was far easier remediation.

“memory famine” -> “AI data center greed”

One of my favorites is “can the network handle a loop?” Plug one port into another, it’ll be fun.

More seriously, that doesn’t look like a passive dumb switch/hub/splitter so you should be fine. Kind of regret not taking the chance in school to bring down the whole network back when dumb ones were more common.

“no, I prefer my brain to stay asleep thank you. asleep, smooth, and pristinely unwrinkled.”

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

Yeah, why would you ever hang those upside down unless that’s what you were going for? Or you could just cut or snap off the handles.

Wouldn’t you also need to replace the first letter of most words with R as well?

Roo rust reeze ruh reans ruv roduction

Or you’re a fan of good music.

… who can also tell the incoming weather with their knee

Not sure it would be much different, honestly.

God, I was just enjoying some cyberpunk-adjacent media yesterday and laughed at the satire of an in universe news outlet complaining about “anticonsumerist terrorism”.

Something something torment nexus