Warfox

Lover of cute animals, debate, and debate about cute animals. Politics can be described as: Moderate, Libertarian, Egalitarian, Meritocratic, Authoritarian-leaning(police and military must protect the liberties of the people. I know it sounds contrary to libertarian, but if you ask I can explain better.)

[meckamecha]

I got a laptop with Windows 11 for an IT course so I can get certified, and doing the first time device set-up for it made me want to commit unspeakable violence

Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

Switch to linux, it's free and it's good.

[kuromi-hoemie]

u r absolutely right I have SO many complaints about Windows omg.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.

Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO

I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Turn off user tracking: enabled

Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled

Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled

Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled

Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled

Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Allow Cortana: disabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

Group policies are kind of a rabbit hole so while there is a lot more you could change or read into, for your own sanity's sake I would advise against it and say call it a day lol

[meckamecha]

This is all extremely good information, thank you very much for the addition!

[shrimpblaster]

I endorse this as an IT technician. I do this to every new Win11 device I set up.

As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech's debloat tool on it.

Having Fun with Technology

It allows you to add tools, remove/disable shitty parts of windows, and easily change some settings. My default is running the preset for a desktop/laptop and applying security update settings, but there are so many options to customize. I used it on my personal laptop.

[baygeethefirst]

Reblogging not because I need or even understand the info but because somebody might

[thewarfox]

Yeah, I'll reblog this again. Customizing your operating system is a time-honored tradition.

[floridaboiler]

[floridaboiler]

[married-to-a-redhead]

37 years ago . . .

[beardedmrbean]

Not the ending I expected

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

If you get a notification from this account. Please don't be stupid. I know some of you are so inept you send money to take Gaza people to feel better about yourselves, but for real. So not click on this crap. It's apparently leaving comments on amounts as well. Report it.

[thewarfox]

Scam warning, preying upon real ID fears.

[jardinssteve]

[morgan5451]

[aardvarkingmad]

No, they don't. It doesn't take any honest government weeks to calculate the results of an election. The Democrats are cheating, and I fully expect Bass to win outright (if they "find" 50%+1 votes for her), or for two Democrats to participate in the run-off.

[thewarfox]

That's literally why they set up the system this way in the first place.

[prolifeproliberty]

Amazon kills “Stargate” show made by original producers, may hand it to someone who would "give it a fresh new perspective" 😭

I hate this timeline.

WHYYYY AMAZON?!?!

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Amazon execs were concerned that Gero's take on the series would not have broad appeal beyond the franchise's already dedicated fanbase.

This is utterly insane. "We canceled it because it appealed to its dedicated fanbase" is just....I don't even have a word. It wasn't even that long ago when executives would have killed to have an IP that came with its own built in dedicated fanbase. That was a large part of why Disney even bought Lucasfilm, ffs. But no, modern executives can't help believing in the mythical "modern audience" that never shows up for any of the woke slop they churn out.

This makes me fear for Henry Cavill's Warhammer 40k show.

[beardedmrbean]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

[abandoned-as-mustard]

Me: *researching natural disasters in primary school* 'oh i wonder what the worst flood-'

China: :)

Me: ಠ_ಠ

CHINA. YOU ARE ON THERE 4 TIMES in the top 5. Not a SINGLE figure below 6.

WTF IS THAT RIVER DOING???

[barbariankingdom]

(via Home / X)

[iamjaynaemarie]

Dangers of working on a set.

That’s what I said.

[seawitchkaraoke]

Okay but you forgot the best part! During the scene where Aragorn, Gandalf and the other Main CharaktersTM ride ahead to go shout at the gate (and talk to the mouth of sauron in the extended edition) they were very firmly told only to ride up  ahead “this far” because that area was cleared and beyond that it wasn’t.

But. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely mad and lead them just…. a bit farther than that. Everyone else was very scared they might blow up any second. Viggo said it “added a little extra tension”.

[mikkeneko]

[ithinkitsdashing]

#they just don’t make behind the scenes stories like lotr anymore

[ophidahlia]

Viggo was just Like That™ for the whole trilogy, taking method acting to extreme levels:

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

It’s probably more accurate to say that Aragorn played Viggo Mortensen in the off season, so I’m 100% unsurprised to hear he put a whole crowd of fellow actors in genuine mortal peril for a 12% increase in authenticity

[morgan5451]

[mister-merica]

[thewarfox]

This isn't remotely a surprise. And she'll win in the general election too. There are twice as many Democrats in California as there are Republicans, and the Democrat party has decades of infrastructure and institutional power to put behind their candidate. The California Republican party is not up to the task, they're not ready for a moment like this. LA burning down was the best opportunity any Republican was ever going to get, but the news and publicity over the failures of the state administration and city administration was nowhere to be seen. There should be massive outrage about the state of their city, but the people meekly and obediently do nothing about it. They'll burn your houses down, they'll let the drug zombies near your children, they'll arrest you for the slightest of infractions while minority criminals get released dozens of times only to kill someone. And they know the Democrats will still vote for them. They'll piss on your shoe and tell you it's raining. Good luck Spencer Pratt, you'll need it.

[modernbritain]

[weatherman667]

This is a good summary.

[brazenautomaton]

Stop posting screenshots of Tweets

This does look terrible for them, since given the facts the stories of the defendants and police are obviously not true. They stopped to handcuff a man who was bleeding to death and undoubtedly saying that he was bleeding to death and leaving a trail of blood behind him. His attacker stabbed him four times in "self-defense" and then chased him down over a fence in "self-defense" and his mom hid the murder weapon in "self-defense" and was really sad that it happened which is why he fled and didn't tell anyone he did it.

The UK is the bottom of every slippery slope.

[thewarfox]

The police in the UK were already the enemy of the people, going after people for 'non crime hate incidents', covering up muslim rape gangs and then trying to call them 'asian' rape gangs, harassing peaceful protestors, not prosecuting terrorists, not condemning or cracking down on muslim machete attacks, not protecting their borders from invaders on boats, and not enforcing their own laws on foreigners while expecting the natives to stay obedient. If there's any smart people in the UK police, now is the time to resign. Wearing that uniform is not going to do you any favors with the mood of the people after this incident.

[beardedmrbean]

[the-davest-of-uncles]

If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid.

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

That's where the dog sleeps.

[the-davest-of-uncles]

And the cat can't lose any toys there.

[thewarfox]

Don't have to bend over very far to get the stuff on the bottom of the fridge, though freezer stuff is a bit of a reach for short people.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

All true.

[xxx-theartofsuicide-xxx]

As someone who is staunchly against mandatory at-birth paternity tests because I believe it would lead to a steep uptick in both homicide and infanticide, I think this is an incredibly fair compromise that should have been codified a long time ago.

[baygeethefirst]