Kumatomic

I mean stopping Windows updates is really more a win than a loss half the time. They’ve forcefully installed so much of the shitware in Windows 10 updates that makes Windows 11 awful. It took me an hour to strip all the bullshit off of my partner’s Windows 10 that he left to auto-update.

Two devices is lunacy.

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

My Charger’s Irratainment system decided to update during traffic in Dallas rush hour (I don’t live there) and it took my navigation with me until I could regoogle my phone enough to use that.

Well still explains why it’s so bad. Bing is just as bad with paid results, to the point it has to pay people to try to get them to use it.

Nothing based on Chrome is an option because Google is evil and thinks it can control my computer, Brave customer service literally made fun of me for not liking the way they took over my homepage regularly years ago, Opera is just adware, and Firefox is about all that’s left. Even though it’s losing more options every update and on mobile it’s complete garbage now with everything centered around their homepage so they can try to serve me ads that I can luckily turn off for now.

I don’t understand why people find DuckDuckGo a good alternative. It’s better for privacy yes, but the search results are just as useless and unrelated because they’re based on Google which is just a big ad server now. Every result is find 10 “XYZ’s” on Amazon or Walmart, or the other results for different companies.

I gave up reddit. When Infinity announce a subscription I was done. I didn’t want go through all the hassle getting an app key in whatever way when this is easy. Also Reddit CEO is a piece of crap, like pretty much all CEOs.