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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

No, due to multiple reasons. (Alternative OSes, group policy)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

That's crazy, even on Linux and *BSD?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Its not on LTSC. Fuck Copilot. Fuck Widgets. Fuck M$ Store. I highly recommend to anyone still using Windows today.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I turned it off and deleted on my girlfriend's Win 10 PC. Then a few minutes later there's a big ad trying to get us to reinstall it. Yeah, Windows is fucked

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i genuinely turn it off but last week I was documenting something and I noticed copilot was trying to anticipate what I was writing. I'm okay with that type of help but otherwise it's just in the way

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait so you turned copilot off, yet it was still reading everything you type?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I turned it off in Windows but one of the latest Office patches does something that made it working in Word

At first I was really annoyed but when it seemed to understand the spelling of a word that was not normal and then suggested it everytime I was about to type it, I kept it enabled and it did help me speed up the writing of that document

basically a how to for using an old version of Veritas Netbackup that our LTO6 tapes are locked into

I am migrating it to LTO8 and using TAR and LTFS, so no more closed source lock in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not on my machines. Open Source oses and tools are the only way to have a chance at dodging this kind of thing.