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Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

MS is getting so thirsty it's pathetic. All the Win 11 garbage and now this. It's sad really.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I develop software that runs on Windows, so I have to use it to some degree. I would pay so much money for an officially-supported version that lets me cut out all the shit I don’t need and not deal with stupid thirst tricks. For the longest, I just ran Windows Server in a VM.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

try Windows LTSC

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sadly only available for large corporations

^or ^the ^ports ^of ^the ^bay

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Lemmy (as in the default frontend) requires an extra caret at the end of superscripts: ^or^ ^the^ ^ports^ ^of^ ^the^ ^bay^

^not^ ^a^ ^bot,^ ^but^ ^at^ ^this^ ^point^ ^I^ ^might^ ^make^ ^one^

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

Huh, looks fine to me

edit: checked in browser and yours looks fine in that, but in my app it adds an extra ^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh nice, another client-dependent formatting thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I might actually do that.