also, if someone ends up connecting to me and go straight to cp, it's going to be my fucking address there?? haha

Thanks, will do (however, if you hover your mouse over the song name the text says "Download" already)

Nah, the Reddit community was pretty alright, I just don't want to use Reddit anymore... bots and trolls are in the neocities platform itself, my last post on Reddit was about how Neocities is listed by DNS services as a bad hoster because tons of subdomains were used for phishing.

the change I want to see is people on privacy-friendly spaces, that's why I'm here :P

My father loves '00s and late '90s RTS games, so I built him a Win7 PC. I got a bit jealous of how tight its running lol
Pre-built systems, though, come with way waaay more bloat. To get a free Windows license included in the product, they shove tons of shit in. My mother had a Win10 LG All-in-One, and I recently reset and cleared it to give to my niece, I had to remove a lot of crap, but it was way worse in the Win11 Dell All-in-One she got to replace it. I’ve never seen anything like that, shit came with Spotify, Netflix, Amazon, Candy Crush... and, worst of all: McAfee. This Win11 laptop I'm using right now came with Norton hehe - but those Bing News, Bing Weather, Bing Maps, Bing This, Bing That, all the Xbox stuff, which you need to remove through command prompt, they were in all of them. However, I’ve never tested a Win10 or Win11 that wasn't on a pre-built device, my guess is that if you bought a license (or acquired some other way, I don't judge hehe) and installed the OS yourself it is way cleaner... but also surely Win11 is worse than Win10 on bloat.

edit: I had written Avast but it was actually McAfee, it wasn't even full license and it expired, also it constantly hijacked the browser and changed the search engine to Bing... pure malware behavior, crazy stuff.

It happened a few times to me during major updates, but most don’t restore packages you’ve removed. They do change other things, though.
I recently wrote this small guide: https://fuckbigtech.neocities.org/#06, and I was just about to re-read it to update, for example: Last time I was on Win11, the Windows Update had downloaded the HEIF and AV1 codecs, they were even listed in the app list to uninstall if I wanted, but they didn’t come with the laptop I have now, nor were they added through updating it. I just noticed folders weren’t displaying AVIF image thumbnails after I had debloated (and removed Windows Store). Then I discovered you can no longer download Windows utilities through their site, and it won’t work directly through PowerShell either because all download and installation is forced through Windows Store. I had already debloated extensively, so I decided to just factory-reset the laptop. This time, I downloaded both packages before removing Windows Store. Guess what? Removing Windows Store also removed the packages! So here I am, after another factory reset, leaving Windows Store there, hoping the lack of it doesn’t fuck me in the future lol
fun story: I also discovered it no longer comes with Notepad, Paint and Calculator! You have to download all from the Store, and they integrated with Copilot lol - it did come with Outlook, Maps, Teams and other crap, though... even some hidden legacy Zune, IE and Skype packages..

Every site was breaking, looking like they were fighting over DNS resolving, and I guess that was the problem. Once I removed Portmaster's DNS settings, they started working together. Well, I have DNS set in the browser anyway, and I'm using Portmaster just to monitor those non-browser connections. Using Windows, it's crazy that on startup you already have like 9 pages of random Windows processes trying to call home and tell them what you're doing lol

A Roman dodecahedron, it fucks with modern people as well.

I do plan to update and re-encode the whole thing and find some place to upload, but that's not happening anytime soon. Best place to look for those albums is Soulseek I guess.

Well, I gonna try to minimize the use of canvas (and figure out why it works for one and not for the other) or just try to go without it. Thanks.

Digital piracy doesn't take anyone's stuff, it just duplicates it. I think Disney is calling digital pirates "good pirates".

I saw that Notepad and Paint have integrated AI now. I didn't check if the same applies to Calculator, but I'm terribly afraid they might collect my Calculator history... far more shameful than any late‑night browsing history.