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Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
How do I... use this? I don't know what to do ;-;
here’s a youtube tutorial by the guy who made it
it’s ok to ask for help the next 946 days
Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme, no. 4, avril 1901, Paris. Mlle Marcelle Lender. Cliché Reutlinger. Bibliothèque nationale de France
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When my soul touches yours a great chord sings! How shall I tune it then to other things? O! That some spot in darkness could be found That does not vibrate when’er your depth sound. But everything that touches you and me Welds us as played strings sound one melody. Where is the instrument whence the sounds flow? And whose the master-hand that holds the bow? O! Sweet song—
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Love Song
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HEY ARTISTS!
Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:
OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–
There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)
A heavily underutilised aspect of the digital landscape is the ability to send someone a .zip care package featuring a few podcasts, a handful of indie ttrpgs, a couple webcomics, a digital mixtape, and the .epub or .pdf for some book nobody's ever heard of.
And hey, why stop there? Slip in some scientific articles, recipes, poetry, sewing patterns, films, or whatever else would appeal. Some of these things cost money, some don't. But recieving a curated collection of goodies? Guaranteed to be valued.
Since I'm not in a position to host a .zip for you all, here's a free little care package of links from myself to everyone out there:
The Far Meridian (Fiction Podcast)
Stories From Ylelmore (Fiction Podcast)
The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality (Fiction Podcast)
The Tower (Fiction Podcast)
Skyjacks: Courier's Call (TTRPG Podcast) [You'll have to look this one up on your podcatcher. All podcasts listed here can be found on there too]
Urban Legend Club (TTRPG, 1+ players)
Apotheosis Janitors (Multiplayer TTRPG)
A Traveller in the City (Mapmaking TTRPG, 1+ players)
Keeper of the Silent Grove (Game)
Always Human (Webcomic)
Crow Time (Webcomic)
Forsythia (Poem)
Getting Started in Electronics (Non-Fiction Book)
The house of a thousand species: The untapped potential of comprehensive biodiversity censuses of urban properties (Scientific Article)
The Small Science Collective (Science Zine Collection/Archive)
How to make a moss jar terrarium (Tutorial)
Plush dogs (Sewing Patterns): Golden Retriever • Dalmation • Belgian Shepherd • Bull Terrier
Plush Pill Bug (Sewing Pattern)
Strawberry Shortcake (Recipe)
3-Ingredient French Onion Potato Bake (Recipe) [Personal note: you can as much as double the soup powder, also feel free to pad with milk. It might need to bake longer than listed but the ingredient amounts are very forgiving]
Easy No-knead Turkish Bread (Recipe)
Another free little care package for you all:
World Gone Wrong (Fiction Podcast)
Cryptonaturalist (Fiction Podcast) [Personally, I'd recommend starting on episode 3 and coming back to the first two once you've caught up]
Absolutely No Adventures (Fiction Podcast)
Monstrous Agonies (Fiction Podcast)
Where They Landed (Album)
The Norwegian Fjords - Life in the Twilight (Nature Documentary)
Mending A Rift (Short Comic)
Pia and the Little Tiny Things (Webcomic)
Here There Be Dragons (Webcomic)
And Another Lovely Day (Webcomic)
Bean Quest (Solo LARP)
The Last Tea Shop (Solo TTRPG)
Sentience (Interactive Novel)
Podvodsk (Puzzle-Adjacent Game)
Plush Manta Ray (Sewing Pattern)
Soft No-Knead Dinner Rolls (Recipe)
My Favourite Orange Sherbet (Recipe) (note: an icecream maker is NOT required: if you don't have access to one, you can instead put the liquid in a sturdy container, put that in your freezer, and just open your freezer every 45-60 minutes to give the freezing mixture a stir)
How to Make Yogurt (Recipe)
How To Make Jam (Recipe/Tutorial)
How to Make a Ginger Bug Starter for Natural Soda (Tutorial)
University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension - Clothing Repair (Instructional Booklet)
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)
✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈
reblogging for personal use
ART REFERENCE NOT FULL OF AI?! YESSS
THANK YOU
I know folks have been sharing this link on other posts, but &udm=14 works well:
You can add it as an extension to Firefox now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/reviews/
@gentleman-velvet
Thank you very much
I’ll share this around :)
If you click the "what is &udm=14" link it provides a step by step guide on how to make a stripped down Google your default search engine
As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoft's most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, I've been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.
FIRST:
The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customi
It's very easy, even if you're not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying "ARE YOU SURE?" Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).
Now that you've done that, here's the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it's good to double check).
Microsoft wants to put AI everywhere on your PC, but you can take back control.
Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and "Discover" AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there's this uncanny valley garbage:
No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple "smooths your skin" add on).
Tired of Microsoft pushing ads throughout Windows 11? Here are the settings you can tweak to turn them off and reclaim some privacy.
The truly insane number of places they have stuck ads on your own home computer is sickening. Become Unmarketable.
Bonus:
Some background programs you probably don't need that are taking up space and how to remove them (Microsoft forums, 2024)
Your Samsung Galaxy Phone comes with 22 apps you don't need (Android Police, 2025)
How to disable the AI in firefox (still the only browser that lets you do this permanently) (Windows Report, 2025)
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🐱 F1 Serengeti (Bengal x Oriental Shorthair) [Serengeti TICA]
📸 Vakulenko Yuliya [BeFurry Bengal Cattery]
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annoying when shows set in the medieval period have the women with thier hair just long and unstyled and out . girl go put on your wimple girl 🤦♀️
like there are so many fun medieval hair and headgear options, it's so boring just seeing loose beachy waves meant to appeal to 21st century beauty standards
put that hot prince in a gay little hood with an ostrich feather or so help me god
>> ms.prettyandpink
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i'd like to add that the shadow color isnt necessarily dictated entirely by the primary light source, but the bounce light! so for the example of a sunny environment, the reason the shadows are blue are because of the light from the blue sky reflects across the environment; but, if the character were to be under tree cover, the bounce light would be coming from the leaves and thus the shadow would look greener.
Yee yee!!! You got it right on the nose!
Bounce light is something I didn't cover but I adore it!
Gotta work on my bounce light 💪
My good friends this is called using a
Gamut Mask
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James Gurney is an absolute master and gives really good clarity on colour techniques. Yes, it is traditional paint focused, but the principles are the same. Yes it is informed by the environmental colour but as a painting technique it is achieved this way!
I would also suggest that in digital processing, rather than apply a regular colour layer at a mid opacity, try out the different types of layers, Eg. Screen or Multiply. This can give you at least a starting point to help direct your colour palette.
Layer Blend Modes are so so so important to working in digital art. There's a ton of math that goes into figuring out how the layers should blend together, which is why some of the modes you can pick are literally called Multiply, Add, Divide, and Difference (that's subtraction). The graphics software takes the color values of your base and blend layers and runs a calculation to get your resulting layer appearance. The ones that don't have specifically mathematical sounding names are still doing calculations, but they're more complicated (think linear Algebra and higher). Some of them, like dodge and burn, are named for actual photo editing techniques.
While it's not super important to know about the mathematical side of blend modes, I think it's worth knowing at least enough about how each of the categories of blend modes works and why they do what they do; if for no other reason than having a starting point when you start experimenting with them in your work.
An overview of the basic blend modes and how they work from Genevieve's Design Studio: Accessible with minimal color knowledge; practical and illustration focused. https://youtu.be/kMc87hQrJd0?si=TWCB365pKSfWS8p0. (16 minutes) This creator also has a ton of free resources you can download, including a Blend Modes cheatsheet, but fair warning: you have to create an account to get them!
Want to learn even more about the math-y stuff? It has great film visuals! A video from FilmmakerIQ: You need some basic knowledge of RGB color models, understanding of values/luma, and at least a tenuous understanding of Algebraic formulas. (26 minutes) https://youtu.be/F7_kaTP7_W4?si=x0urqXZ8f51nQVKl
Hi, Zen browser is a fork of Firefox that doesn't have any of the AI crap on it (and what came with the code is disabled by default).
The ONLY LLM stuff they've considered adding is ENTIRELY OPT-IN stuff for tidying your browser, and you wouldn't see a whiff of it if you didn't want to. They haven't done it yet and may end up not doing it at all, but imo it doesn't sound nearly as intrusive and gross as what Firefox's been doing without asking, even though I'd likely never use it.
I've been working on migrating my data and extensions over to Zen, and everything seems to work about the same. The only thing that's really taking getting used to is the tab list is on the side of the window vertically rather than at the top of the window horizontally.
Beautifully designed, privacy-focused, and packed with features.
Just boosting this. I tentatively started using Zen a year ago, and it took a bit of getting used to but it's SO powerful (especially if you use it with UBlock Origin and Privacy Badger). Chrome has rapidly become almost non-functional on many websites because of all the restrictions and gen AI bs it's added, so i've increasingly started using Zen as my main browser for almost everything. I really love it. It's beautiful, clean, minimalist, and perfect if you are someone who wants to customize/organize tabs and tab groups. Also every extension made for Firefox works on it.
I use it with startpage (which has built-in privacy features, draws from a stripped-down google API, and has an optional AI summary you can turn off) and mojeek (which searches blogs and websites and text-based resources, not video or social media platforms) as my primary search engines as well, and i really recommend it.
