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Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 3 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

If you could have nothing but pure intentions.. that's still a bad way to go about getting users to update. Users choose to not update to avoid getting fucked by Microslop.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Users choose not to update to avoid rebooting. The average user barely even knows what an OS is. They just know that if they reboot, they’ll lose their 347 Emotional Support Chrome tabs. Lemmy tends to be fairly tech literate, which means conversations about tech often involve the Average Familiarity problem:

    Xkcd comic 2501, titled “Average Familiarity”. It involves two expert geologists discussing the average person’s familiarity with their field of study. They vastly overestimate the average person.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Chrome (and Firefox and probably every other major browser) has reopened tabs on restart for years now.

    Other programs, not so much. Windows did add the feature to reopen programs fairly recently, but most of the time that means just starting the program, not actually restoring your session.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Vivaldi also does this well, and Opera before it back to at least 2001. XFCE opens the programs too but the programs themselves don't remember state, even if gracefully closed by a normal reboot. Except Krusader which seems to remember my tabs from like 3 years ago and I have no idea how to get it to update.

    Oh and 4k remains the bane of my existence with getting my shell to remember 2x scaling is stupid hard, and I have to launch special scripts to inject the 2x scaling in the launch options or environment variables. I should ask AI why my Alma 9 is being dumb.

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