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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 145 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I once ran the windows Troubleshooter to get an old scanner working, and the final page told me to but a new scanner!

I plugged it in to a mini PC I use as a backup server and the scanner worked fine with Linux.

And another recommendation issue: I noticed that my Windows laptop has a "reduce your carbon footprint" settings section that tells me to reduce power settings, screen brightness etc. but it's completely lacking a "stop giving me AI search results in Bing" section.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Win11 also says that showing seconds in the taskbar "reduces battery life"/"increases power consumption"

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

My god. It really does!

Oh no! I left notepad.exe open. That cursor was flashing on and off for hours! I'm sorry everyone!

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