purplemonkeymad

purplemonkeymad , 6 days ago to technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

Yea it annoys me too, you can switch it back, but I can’t do that every time I’m working on someone’s computer.

purplemonkeymad , 10 months ago to technology in Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware

Yea I’ve always found that complaint odd. I just assumed everyone who makes it also has the activate windows watermark, and thus can’t access the option.

purplemonkeymad , 10 months ago to technology in Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware

Have they fixed the store version so it can do multiple monitors yet? Also local folder redirects?

purplemonkeymad , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in You didn't bought it you rented it!

Honestly just having a laser/led printer removes so many of the problems with printers. All inkjets should be replaced.

purplemonkeymad , 11 months ago to gaming in What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?

In terms of user content this would be correct. However when it comes to games on the platform valve does do curation to ensure games run etc. I don’t know if it has been tested, but that curation could exclude them from the protection. If that was the case they could be directly sued for copyright infringement.

purplemonkeymad , 11 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Youtube added shorts to the subscriptions page, pushing the subscriptions almost entirely off the page...

I did this years ago when it was added to home, not seen shorts since. Good guide.

purplemonkeymad , 1 year ago to nostupidquestions in How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml?

I don’t know, but it might be that Reddit is only limiting API keys for authenticated sessions. That way the anonymous requests still work up to the free API rate limits.