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)
So as it turns out your sense of self doesnt exist in a vacuum. You gotta actually use it and bounce it off of other people like echolocation to see where you are as a person and shit. So if you dont regularly interact with other people the echoes just get weaker and weaker and before you know it your personality is a blurry fucked up fog clone of its former self. which it sucks because this makes it really hard to interact with people again but yknow
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
I and some colleagues were talking about how we wish everyone could see the safety videos that our company was showing us, because I don’t think most people understand how traffic works in a truck. So here’s some things we wish everyone on the road knew.
- we’re not kidding about tailgating. If you’re right behind us on a straight highway? Chances are we have NO IDEA you’re there, which means we can’t anticipate any of your movements. Plus slowing down takes multiple downshifts, so we might start decreasing speed way earlier than you expect.
- We’re not kidding about any of our blind spots. WE CAN’T SEE YOU, GUYS.
- That bit about slowing down taking a while? The same goes for when you’re in front of us. Don’t cut off a truck. Oh god, PLEASE don’t cut off a truck. If you cut me off, I’m not irritated, I’m terrified. For YOU. It can take 7 to 9 seconds for us to stop. DON’T CUT OFF TRUCKS.
- Before you get mad about how slow we’re going on the highway, keep in mind that many companies govern their vehicles so they literally CAN’T go over 60 or 65. This is a good thing, I promise. Because…
- Do you know what happens when a car meets a truck in an accident? The car gets totaled and the truck needs a new coat of paint. You will not win this fight. I know nobody likes getting stuck behind a big dumb truck, but it’s not worth your life.
We are trying our best to protect you from our 80,000 pound death machines. Please help us out.
I guess friendly reminder that you can't actually judge someone's socioeconomic status based on what they own and the classic republican "they can't be poor they own a smart phone/computer" argument doesn't suddenly stop being complete out of touch nonsense when a poor person makes it.
Anyway insert "y'all can't be trusted to eat the rich bcs you'll target taco bell shift leaders and people with playstations instead of actual billionaires" post here.
One time, in the local queer exchange, an older person was trying to sell a small painting by a long-dead, moderately well known artist for a couple grand and all these babies started screaming at them in the comments about how high the asking price was and how they should be donating the painting to a museum or the money to charity. And OP was like, "the artist gave me this as a gift bc we were friends and I'm only selling it to pay for chemo."
There's a story that goes around in conservative circles about "people on welfare who drive Cadillacs" (which, at least in the mid-20th Century, was a more expensive make of car than, say, a Ford). The implication is that people on welfare don't really deserve it, because if they had enough money for a Caddy, they have enough money to pay for food.
And, you know, there are a lot of reasons that someone who is poor might have something that started out expensive: maybe they lost their job or got divorced or had a medical crisis recently, and the car is from before that. Maybe it's really old and thus cheap. Maybe it was a gift from a family member with more money than they have (I drove a Mercedes Benz to school in high school ... but it was a thirty-year-old beater that could barely maintain road speed on a flat road, and which I got for free because it had been passed through several family members before it got to me). Maybe a lot of things.
But the interesting thing is where the story about welfare recipients in Cadillacs comes from. You see, it comes from an experiment they did in a city where they wanted to see who was getting welfare checks and how they lived to give proof that they didn't "deserve" the money. So they declared that one month, instead of checks being mailed out to people, they had to come to City Hall to pick them up.
Now, the thing is, a lot of poor people don't have cars, either because they're too poor to afford them, or because they are old and can't drive any longer. So this was a major problem for a lot of people. So the local boyscout troop (which had a lot of kids from upper-class families) organized rides for all of them. So yeah, a lot of people showed up in Caddys and Lincoln Towncars and other nice cars ... not because they owned nice cars but because the people who gave them the ride owned nice cars. But the story that goes around is about the "lazy scammers who are on welfare but drive luxury cars so they can't really be poor." That's the story they tell! It's not true, but it's the story.
If your assumptions of wealth and poverty is the same as conservatives, if the way you talk about poor people is indistinguishable from conservatives, you are not a progressive.
I have a trench coat worth 2k that I picked up at a thrift store for 50 bucks. I am extremely careful about wearing it in public. I don’t want to herald the money I don’t have in the face of thugs. And also it tends to just get me weird stares when I pay in dirty cash for things that are at the dollar store when I am literally wearing a $2,000 coat.
I refuse to sell it because it is by far the most thermally insular single thing I have and it’s the only coat/jacket I possess that is actually waterproof. It doesn’t have a hood, but it does have a collar, and honestly I’d probably be perfectly fine wearing it in New York. It’s that kind of trench coat. I wear it outside only when walking the dog in the bitter damp cold. I do not wear it ever in a store anymore and never ever wear it while alone.
But it’s a coat I found in a thrift store for $50. Expensive, yes, but I desperately needed a warm, wind-proof something and it happened to be Christmas and my mom happened to be feeling generous at the time.
But it’s never the point; the only thing they care about is Calvinist/Puritan suffering. You must not be truly poor if you have literally not sold every piece of collateral you own. You can’t be that desperate if you’re deigning to pick and choose through the food box place, knowing that half that shit is rotten. You must not actually need help with walking if you can stand on your own for two seconds. You clearly aren’t disabled if you can walk at all.
Same shit, different hole. Just a bunch of narcissistic jerks.
THAT FIRST SITE IS EVERY WRITER’S DREAM DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE TRIED WRITING SOMETHING AND THOUGHT GOD DAMN IS THERE A SPECIFIC WORD FOR WHAT I’M USING TWO SENTENCES TO DESCRIBE AND JUST GETTING A BUNCH OF SHIT GOOGLE RESULTS
kaledo-art
2087
annaxmalina
areudirty
gummygunk
snowghoul
dailybridgerton
jacobvanloon
