I’m imagining that same instance still stuck open for years until you found out.

Because the democrats eat them instead /s

I wish I didn’t have to put a stupid /s, but the things people believe now are wild

I’m not in a position to look into it right now, but is there a part of the EULA that gives consent to detect ad blockers, and would that be good enough for the law referenced?

You make good points. I do think maybe if we never went down this road of everything being ad supported, then it wouldn’t be this bad. It is the world we live in now, though, and I doubt there is any going back to what could have been

I pretty much agree, but I really wish we could move away from ads being literally everywhere in our lives. I’d rather them just charge a little bit more and have a better experience. It’s probably falling on deaf ears, though, because nobody ever wants to pay for anything on the internet.

Grub rescue disk is nice for when you fuck up your boot loader. Can detect many installed OSes and allow you to get back into them and fix things with less fussing around https://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/

It’s been a while since I set mine up but iirc yes. Either that or ventoy creates a partition itself during install specifically that it searches to populate the list when you boot it. The nice thing beyond that is it even lets you explore other disks on the system. So if you have other isos on an unencrypted drive installed in the computer you can also browse to that and boot from it.

The telemetry and ads baked into windows. I’m so sick of ads creeping into every corner of my life