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Completely disable Copilot in Windows 11
You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.
HELL YEAH DESHITTIFICATION!
For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in. If you don't have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if you're on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your 'computer' or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsCopilot
Navigating to your "turnoffwindowscopilot", hit modify, and set the value data to 1.
If done correctly, it'll look like this.
While we're at it, you can also get rid of the integrated search, (or that thing where it searches the web when you search anything, whether or not you want it to) and such through regedit as well.
Integrated search will have you going to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Navigate to your "DisableSearchBoxSuggestions" bit, if you don't see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. It'll look like this if you do it right!
To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DesktopSpotlight\Settings
And set "Enabled State" To 0. If you do it right, it'll look like this!
Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.
If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)
In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you don't see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. It'll look like this.
Aaaand while we're here, I'd HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. It's just bloatware. (Ostensibly it's supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means it's constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computer's processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since it's set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.
This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but it's a quick fix. I'd also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothing's scheduled to open up there, either.
If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killer's. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.
One last thing, not a shit application but is a shit service. If your computer's constantly overheating or just warm, you likely have Turboboost enabled. (Default setting that you can't change) If you want to be able to turn it off and drop your temps by like 40 degrees, in Regedit go to
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7
(Note- This isn't the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesn't work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesn't work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so it's easy to find.)
and go to "attributes". Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, you'll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.
It'll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.
Turning off quick startup's also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.
GOOD LUCK OUT THERE YALL. MAKE SURE TO CLEAN YOUR PC!
I would like to once again recommend to you all Winero Tweaker, a free program that lets you adjust a bunch of windows settings with a single click instead of digging through 30 different setting screens and registry entries.
There's well over a hundred settings, here's just a few of them:
(sorry the classic taskbar option no longer works with current windows 11 version)
Fair warning: This is a powerful tool which means it can also do some damage if you don't know what you're doing, but every setting comes with an extensive explanation, as you can see in the Ads and unwanted apps screenshot.
This tool will even turn windows 11 from a bloated mess into a (more or less, this tool isn't magic) usable operating system.
Some tech advice for you all from my personal blog. I figured the more people see this the better, and I got a lot more followers on this blog.
Quick reference for how to turn off AI features in Firefox
Firefox updated recently, don't forget to open config and turn off the AI shit the update turned back on
back to my usual color schemes :') some new projects I'm excited about!
while we're on the topic of obelisks I think it's very cool how their statue forms can be all sorts of different materials based on the dragon's element/personality it's so fun like oooh does your oc turn to obsidian do they turn to sandstone there are so many possibilities so much cool symbolism to ponder..... however if I was an obelisk who turns to like limestone or something and I met a guy whose statue form was Solid Fucking Diamond? I would be sooo mad. I'd be pissed I'd be plotting that motherfucker's demise every second of every day
If you want access to all Creative Cloud software, do NOT look into GenP on Reddit and do NOT look up a how-to guide on YouTube, to aid you in setting it up. It is NOT easy as piss. Adobe definitely deserves your hard earned money actually, as they are very ethical in the way they treat their costumers.
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honestly? if i wasnt so atteched to Joule whole look, I would have made him a chonky worm, he slaps like that
Crossposted from BlueSky!
[ID: Bluesky post by Kengo (@/rockheadkengo.bsky.social): “PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off.”
Post includes a screenshot of the PayPal privacy statement amendments:
“Amendments to the PayPal Privacy Statement
Effective November 27, 2024:
• We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you'll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we'll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you'll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under "Data and Privacy."
• We are also making other updates to our Privacy Statement including some additional disclosures related to your right, depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, to ask us for a list of the third parties to which we have disclosed personal information, and to provide other clarifying information.”
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I need to (remembers to not make casual suicide jokes in order to encourage a more outwardly positive mindset and healthy conversational environment in my day to day life) kill myself
flight rising things to never say out of context, exhibit A:
ok so this started because, the thing about dusthides is that they have a very cool thing going on with their wing, where the secondary is only visible on the underside of the wing and not the top. unfortunately, only one pose (F) shows this off at all, so I wondered if the M pose could be altered to show the back wing to emphasize that trait. and also i thought it would be cool if the secondary was also on the underside of the plating, which i then had to add more of, and then also i had to draw the F pose to see if i could reposition the tail to show off THAT attribute. and then since i was drawing them ANYWAY i just redesigned some other things. for fun. i dont think i did it super great but it was a fun exercise!!
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I feel this is a good time to remind people that the staff of most pet sites (or gaming sites in general) do *not* want to ban players. Players are how they make their money. They don’t want to have their site gain a reputation of banning people for anything, which makes people less likely to sign up and/or buy their premium currency/items.
Also, with the number of players on sites like FR, staff isn’t going to go through each account individually to look for behavior against the site rules. They likely have tools that will flag suspicious behavior then go through and look at each report individually. They also likely rely on players reporting others (or reporting themselves).
This isn’t to say that people aren’t banned unfairly, but rather that the majority of players aren’t. Including those who publicly state that they were banned unfairly.
What I've learned about the coli on Flight Rising, it's going well so far
How baby sandurges find out they have spectre tert
people saying FR staff have terrible communication is kind of starting to piss me off 😭 we were told ON SITE that sandsurges would be gem breeds. if you didn't read that, that's on you, not with devs failing to communicate the way this breed release would pan out. they quite literally posted an essay the other day just to reflect on what the refactor meant for them and the site. it's like the people saying FR staff are ableist for expecting people to read their news posts have never played an actually bad petsite with in their lives
the communication on this site is great and has been getting steadily better for the past few years. I think some of you need to experience the joys (?) of playing petsites where none of the staff have logged on for 6 years or where the admins actively cuss out and publicly embarrass people they don't like in the forums. there are actual games where it IS a corporate entity pumping out content just for money instead of a team of a handful of people running a petsite for a decade
agreed, I’ve never seen anyone quite like the fr staff, who goes out of their way to give notices to players, address our concerns, prioritize accessibility et cetera. The thing is, FR could be a game where premium currency is difficult to get, where you have to pay real money to access exclusive content or obtain a particular item, where the staff’s main goal for every new release is geared towards getting money from players.
But FR is not, and the staff continues to give us free quality content at the expense of their time, energy, and resources. you want gems? achievement system, keeping your well fed bonus, selling items on the AH, exalting - there are so many ways to get premium currency. the idea that people consider the new breed “locked behind a paywall” just communicates to me that they’ve never actually encountered a real paywall >.>