I switched to Linux full time (I'd gone back and forth for a while) about 10 years ago when my XP laptop died.
I had access to Windows 7 via work, but I didn't like how much telemetry was being sent back to MS...
For Enterprise/Education you can disable the 'recommended' section entirely via group policy. Doesn't work for Pro/Home versions though, from what I remember.
I don't have a Windows 11 machine available, so I can't get you the exact command, but this should get you there.
It should remove it from all users on the laptop, and (hopefully!) prevent it from coming back:
Open Powershell and run:
Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | Where-Object {$_.displayname -like "*Copilot*"}
Copy the Package Name entry and run the following command, with PACKAGENAME replaced by what you just copied:
Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -online -packagename PACKAGENAME
I imagine their conversations go something like this:
I got the Oasis/roll with it bit (probably because I'm old), but I had to look up what oasis soup was.
OASIS (Oldways Africana Soup In Stories) is a celebratory anthology of culturally-informed soup recipes that seeks to foster and expand conversation about nutritional knowledge and Black women’s wellness.
https://oldwayspt.org/programs/african-heritage-health/oasis-oldways-africana-soup-stories
Edit: Though the book may have been based on the original joke, come to think of it...
Cosby predates One Foot in the Grave - I remember watching Cosby as a kid in the 80s, and OFitG didn't show up until the 90s. OFitG became (I think) Curb Your Enthusiam.
"The devil told you that! the devil told you that!" cried the little man, and in his anger he stamped with his right foot so hard that it went into the ground above his knee; then he seized his left foot with both his hands in such a fury that he split in two, and there was an end of him.
Rumpelstiltskin - Grimms' Fairy Tales
That's certainly one way to climb the corporate ladder...
Anyone remember this XBox ad?
Apparently it was banned, but I remember seeing it fairly regularly so it must've been around for a while before that happened...
For people like this, money isn't a resource that they need to survive, it's just a way of keeping score.
It's like playing an idle game - you tweak the various settings and resources to get the most gain, and your reward is watching the numbers go up.
They're no more connected to the numbers themselves than someone sitting at their computer playing Realm Grinder.
Yeah, I'm running LineageOS with MicroG, so I tried disabling Android System Webview as a test. ReVanced seems perfectly happy to browse/play videos (though I didn't try logging out). The only apps I have that fall over without webview seem to be eBay and Amazon, so no great loss there.
On around the 12th October last year, there was an interview on the BBC World Service with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.
He confidently estimated it would take 'about 4 weeks' to completely destroy Hamas.
Edit: Link to the interview - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4nz1