Gregory's ServerIf you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.
They are not wrong.
To mend your machine:
1. Ditch Windows
2. Install Plasma
3. Your computer is ready.
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social this is really great marketing! One suggestion though, one cannot simply get Plasma... Guide people to a distro that has KDE Plasma preinstalled- you certainly can suggest your very own KDE Neon if you'd like!  @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social ok so i should install plasma on... what? the blank ass ssd that i now have from ditching windows? should i just compile kde and put the binaries on the ssd, and it will run plasma?  @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Well, I ditched Windows many, many, many years ago, but Plasma still doesn't make any sense to me, so I use XFCE. But thank you for Plasma!  @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social to this day, tom still spells peripherals without an h🥴  @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Guess what, Firefox does the same thing (a refresh will reset your privacy settings and your default browser, all of which affect Mozilla’s revenue streams) but they’re a tad sneakier/cleverer(?) about it. (Firefox is not private by default so getting you to reset your settings is how they try to influence you to return to their preferred configuration.) @aral @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Wait, but isn't the whole point of a refresh to reset everything? I agree though, out of the box Firefox has become pretty bloated. @Aaron @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Yes, to non-private defaults. Let’s put it this way: if Firefox’s defaults respected your privacy, Mozilla would go bankrupt tomorrow. @aral @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I wouldn't call that one deceptive design tbh, it says what it is doing on the box, resetting the browser to its default state. That includes search engines and privacy settings. Resetting settings to defaults is a completely normal feature that many apps have, and can be useful for fixing issues. @dajix @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social It’s deceptive. They know exactly what they’re doing. That’s why they also ask if you haven’t used your browser for a while. @aral @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I still dont consider this deceptive design. A prompt to reset is perfectly normal in programming, and it would be weird if they did not reset privacy settings with that. Resetting settings is resetting ALL settings. In fact, since resetting is often used for fixing issues you are having in your browser, resetting security settings is a good thing, since some of them can break sites.  @kde@floss.social on my latest laptop I didn't even activate Windows. I just plugged in a USB stick with a KDE distro.  @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social But hey, every other computer in the house that isn't a Mac runs Fedora KDE. 😃 @kde@floss.social @enigma @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social During the Clinton era Microsoft was a hair's breadth away from being broken apart for all its anti-competitive monopolistic shenanigans -- including the browser war thing that you mention. But then Bush Junior got into power (I resist using the words "was elected") and he swept all that away. @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I am already running KDE on my desktop and GNOME on my laptop with Fedora. Maybe when I will have tome, I will package KDE for #MatuushOS. |
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Apple had to learn the hard way: Under the DMA (thanks @EUCommission !) they were forced to give users a choice regarding the default search engine and browser on their systems.
What are we going to do about Microsoft misleading users?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689