ConstipatedWatson @ ConstipatedWatson @lemmy.world

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Zatoichi approves.

I stopped using Windows in 2008 (juggling between a mixture of Linux and Mac OS). One of the reasons, is that at that time I thought Windows was legitimately a mess.

Over time, I thought it got a bit better when seeing it on friends's computers.

Due to laziness, Windows 11 got installed on my office computer (which I use 1% of my time) and I thought it was honestly pretty good (as in, I never thought about switching back, but it was fine to use it when necessary).

Now that they plug in ads, I'll certainly want to switch back /s

Very recently I started noticing that if you search anything on YouTube you don't find what you need at all unless you add many keywords and even then, the site only gives you one coherent answer and tons of garbage you don't need.

Mostly because, instead of giving you videos on the full set of keywords you use, it gives the first video which is based on all of them, and all subsequent videos based on just a single of such keywords, so mainly you get a lot of crap from influencers or such.

Has anyone else experienced this and knows if there is a way around it?

Whoa dude!

PS This is a great shower thought!!!

This game was really awesome! I spent so many hours playing online with whoever. It had several awesome arenas.

Now you make me want to play it again!

Once Upon a time when people watched more TV, there were tons of tele marketers selling crap of all sorts (weight loss supplements, mattresses, weight gear and whatnot) and I always rolled my eyes and switched channels.

Now influencers are their evolution and for some reason managed to escaped the stigma of being tele marketers because they make edited "cool" videos that also show some fun thing.

This is very annoying, but I'm not sure what can be done, besides trying to inform friends (which lately seems to have become impossible with the rise of fake news and the empowering feeling that people "are doing their own research")

I should go eat some fruit guys and you should too #somehashtagabouteatingthisorthatfood

When I look for things on Gmail on my laptop, I get detailed and complete results, when I do the same on the Gmail app, it seems like I get all results up to maybe two years ago (and it doesn't show the rest). This second thing is really annoying, but at least on the computer version I always get everything

I was very excited to get an invite shortly after it's opened and I still have all the emails that tell me my friend XYZ accepted my invitation to Gmail.

It was a time when getting a Gmail invitation wasn't trivial.

Here's a video recalling how exciting it was to have a Gmail.

Nowadays it's different and possibly less good, but searching in Gmail is still very easy, which is awesome

It's currently late and I am on my phone, so I can't research this too well, but for example this thread and official Microsoft link discusses th Adrozek malware which injects you with unwanted ads and information directly from your browser.

Sure, it's not a virus in the older sense of the term where someone either burns your drive or takes over your computer and locks you out asking for a ransom, but it's still piloting you unsuspectingly and you don't want it.

I dislike the fact that "ads" can also include crapware being injected into my computer (viruses, tracking cookies, mysterious scripts, etc).

Ah, wow. So some exams are happening online, even though classes are in person! There goes a combination I had not thought about. It is annoying to still need Respondus though, even if I understand why

Interesting (and annoying). I imagined that most exams went back to the usual pen and paper or laboratory, but there were tests written on laptops and in class long before the pandemic. I had forgotten about those!

You're our hero!

How do you stay in a community, but filter content you don't want through keywords?

Is it still being implemented? This awesome article is from 2022.

I just tried to look for newer hits, but I keep getting articles from 2022 (though several from Nature)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01070-x

Wait, are universities still using Respondus?

I feel for you. It was used a lot during the beginning of the pandemic, but I thought it was dropped by now.

I've been a lurker on Reddit for forever (about 15 years) and then the APIcalypse happened and my first and unique post on Reddit was asking for a Tildes invite. I didn't enjoy Tildes, so now I'm here. We're so much less that I feel I can't lurk here too, so now I regularly comment here.

I apologize if I haven't seen it in another comment, but there is a category missing (sort of, let me quickly explain).

I like reading books from my phone with a dark theme (inverted colors). It's not exactly an e-reader, though it is electronic.

I don't claim it's the best way, it's just very convenient because of (former Reddit)/(now Lemmy) addiction to using my phone to read about cool stuff.

It's particularly handy before sleeping or when commuting

Edit: added last sentence

Wow, this is really how it happened?!? Unbelievable. Well done Spez, all your creativity shines every day...

When I impersonated Gordon Freeman in Half Life 2 and nobody noticed 😄

In a similar fashion, you can wonder about killing opponents in the localized Finnish version of Mortal Kombat