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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

All the problems these people bitch about with Windows never happen to me. Maybe it's because I started with a plain vanilla ISO, no preloaded crap. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Best part? When I mention that I'm not having these problems I get downvoted.

[โ€“] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 weeks ago

I've definitely had this happen to me on Windows, more than once. I can't remember what I searched exactly, but I typed it in and hit enter, assuming I'd get the installed app with whatever name I typed, but instead it opened the browser with some online search results. Very annoying.

I'm sure it can be turned off, and it probably isn't as common as it's portrayed online, but it does happen, and honestly... It should never happen. The start menu is not the place for generic Internet searching. Period.

[โ€“] MBech@feddit.dk 10 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know where you are, but it might be something about being within the EU. I am in the EU, and never get any of the ads and other shit people complain about. Like the biggest complaint I see about smart tv's is that they'll show ads on the smart screen, or install random apps, and neither my current Samsung tv, or my previous LG tv has ever done anything like that.

[โ€“] toddestan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I have to use Windows at work and it's inconsistent. Sometimes I can do a search in the start menu and it'll immediately pop up with exactly what I was searching for. Other times I'll get something like the OP shows. And other times it just returns nonsense results. I don't get it.

it wouldn't show you this ad unless you typically watch this sort of thing. the advertising is personalized, although I believe you can opt out of that in the control panel.