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Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Today I spent 50 minutes figuring out why my app could not set itself as default for www.instagram.com links. I don't have IG installed.

Turns out the latest Samsung OTA update re-enabled Meta App Manager, Meta App Installer and Meta Services. Any of which, while enabled, will result in the user setting an app to handle certain domain links, only for the users action to be instantly reversed without notification.

Edit: that's a gif if it doesn't show up correctly. I had an app advertise itself as IG but Meta kept hijacking the link handler. An uninstallable Samsung forced Meta app, that enables itself back after each OTA update.

If this was on desktop, someone would already be sued. But android? "Sorry can't uninstall system app"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I can control my updates on windows with the group policy editor.

Delay "feature" updates by 365 days, delay "quality" updates by 30 days. then the only updates that get installed right away are the security updates, the other two categories will get pulled if a large number of people report problems with them.

Windows is annoying...unless you know what tools to get to make it work correctly.

I'm a big fan of Linux, don't get me wrong QubesOS is the best thing I've ever heard of. But almost nothing I use is compatible with any distro of linux.

Once you use things like O&O shutup 10 and a few other things in the group policy editor, you'll love your windows machine.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

How is letting you brick your install with little warning an advantage?

rm -rf / you dont have permission to do that.

sudo rm -rf / [linux dutifully commits sudoku until rm itself is gone]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It's actually pretty easy to permanently disable updates in Windows.

Go to Services.msc
Find Windows Update Services
Changed it to Disabled

Done.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The duck should be Linux Mint, the only linux distro thats never given me an issue on any computer I used in my life. Sometimes I contemplate turning off timeshift because its been years since i've needed it and the 30-50gb space could be better used.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You can't delete system apps on Android, but you can disable the ones that won't break your phone if they're disabled. I currently have Chrome, the Play Store (and, at least to an extent, Google Play Services), YouTube, and YouTube Music all disabled.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Just installed Ubuntu today for the first time in at least a decade. Touchpad two-finger scrolling is so sensitive. There’s no setting for it. I have to replace the driver with the synapse one, if my laptop supports it.