Off Topic Chit Chat - (Silliness factor 5)

I rustled up an old product key to give this Windows Decrapifier script I found a try. It automatically removes a lot of the bloat. I thought it was awesome, very aggressive and you can customize to cut more deeply if needed. Even in a VM, it is a much snappier and more responsive WIn10 than I have ever used.

https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/4378-windows-10-decrapifier-18xx-19xx-2xxx

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"A cleanup script for Windows 10 18XX/19XX/2XXX aiming to get a decluttered default experience on regular Pro or Enterprise installs. Also sets most privacy settings to "opt-in" by default."

Not for M$ Win10 Home?

I NLited Windows 11 Pro like crazy, the ISO is just 1.3GB, full install weight of just 4.8GB. That is how much Windows really weights without all the bloat.

From its core, Windows 7 and Windows 11 are not very different. It's basically the same pig with a different colored lipstick for decades.

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Name of font is Dancing Script https://github.com/impallari/DancingScript/tree/master/fonts/ttf

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I don’t think they call it ā€œhomeā€ anymore, just regular I guess. :man_shrugging:

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No, they are still calling them stuff that's stupid

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Hmm, in that case:

The script worked for me on a Home edition, they must just not list it out explicitly in the website.

Actually, this old key is from a Windows 8.1 but it was allowed to ā€œupgradeā€ to Win 10. Back when I first did the upgrade (2015, maybe?), I nearly fell out of my chair–ads and crap right in the Start menu?! :exploding_head: Some ā€œupgradeā€! What an outrage!

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Why has this been moved from Linux & Tech news from here Off Topic Chit Chat?
Not that I challenge this move but try to understand it, since this was concerning Linux as a general topic, and news because it's being talked a lot those last days?
Thanks,

The news category is supposed to be for updates and news that are specifically about Linux, but as you can see the thread veered off into a discussion about Windows bloatware.

EDIT

I see what you meant @erics , your post post got swallowed up with the off-topic silliness.

Post it again! :man_shrugging:

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Oh yes I did see, but my original post was about this vulnerability. But all good :slight_smile:
Thanks for the explanation.

No worries!

I'm lollygagging around while Testdisk runs from this latest Dr460nized ISO on my external 750 gig HDD I use to contain backups of all of my data. It is going to take awhile.

Then I am going to run Testdisk on my 1 terabyte internal HDD, which I normally use for data storage, and it contains copies of everything on the external drive...except while in the process of copying over data from the external to newly formatted internal drive yada, yada, I made the rookie mistake of deleting the wrong set of data. One set was intentional, the other was not.

I didn't panic but I did think about getting drunk and crying. Since I was booted into this live ISO, I browsed the Arch Wiki, then installed Testdisk from the AUR. It's been running for a little while--10% now completed. If I'm unhappy with those results I'll try Photorec.

One small saving grace is that I have all of my Music and about 250 GB of 650 gigs of my favorite Videos, mostly movies, on my Android tablet & SD chip, so some of the pain has subsided. Unfortunately, it appears all of my small config files, scripts, and personal docs have vanished into the mist. We'll see. It may be that text files recover more fully than compressed audio/video and photos. Maybe.

I, uh, probably haven't made this big an error resulting in data loss since Windows 95 ate my lunch.

Sigh...

Silliness Factor off the charts. Laughing trumps crying.

EDIT: Woohoo! Just found copies of all of my Arch configs & scripts backed-up to my Google Drive. I had forgotten I had set my Docs folder synced to that, it's been so long! Woohoo!

EDIT 2: Started concurrent recovery of my Internal HDD data drive formatted in Ext4. Running much faster.

Morning wine's not so bad, either. Sob

EDIT 3: Recovered from morning wine. Unfortunately Testdisk did not. Photorec seems to be doing better.

EDIT 4: Photorec did the job! Not only did it resurrect all of my data, but also a lot of data that had been previously deleted on that drive some time back. Now begins the laborious task of sifting through 157 folders totaling 750 GB, gleaning and restoring pictures, documents, videos, music, and downloads. I may write a small bash script. Nothing has to be restored immediately. sigh I'm getting too old for this shit.

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Hi @erics , I actually didn't see that post in between all the off topics.
Your post has now been moved back to the thread.

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I swear I did not relapse! :slight_smile:

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P.S. how does it work on these long threads, I mean, can't I post rubbish without pestering someone with a "reply"?
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It is anti fingerprinting measure of Firedragon

Don’t worry, if someone is bothered, he/she can change the thread settings fom watching to tracking, or other options.
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That was my assumption indeed, happy to know I wasn’t wrong

OK then, I’ll keep throwing rubbish with peace of mind LOL.

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The larger (coloured) Reply button shouldn't be directed to anyone on the thread - just the thread itself...

Of course, it isn't uncommon for people to hit the wrong one anyway! :grin:

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:man_facepalming: I guess it was too prominent for me to notice... thank you!

Nah - you're just another victim of the top-down, left-right conspiracy of those who have experienced reading that direction! That's why so many get missed....

And I though I was a conspiracy theorist myself... 'twas just "hidden in plain sight".


OT for the silliness factor: when using the second HDMI screen the two waybar modules for the updates never agree, any idea what to look for? Of course they are polling every now and then so it makes sense they're not in always sync, but I always see the one on external display counting and the one on the laptop screen stays at zero or occasionally a lower number, even after a days. Then when I just finished updating, the mako notification will pop up saying there are updates available. If I click it, pamac shows up stuck at "checking for updates 0%" (or something like that).

Actually I couldn't care less, it just doesn't "look good", you know, "bad optics" as they say.

So after reading 1000+ msgs, the only question I have...are you bad mouthing Kansas because that is where you are from Cooter (not going to tag, still figuring out what is rude), or did you pull that out your a$$ to make fun of? Just asking as I am a native... :smile:

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