Ditch Wayland, embrace ADland!
Was this meme created in MSPaint on Wine?
Would you rather they had used AI?
No, MSPaint on Wine is perfectly capable of this quality, and even meme fitting for this post. Using AI is overkill.
Uh, yeah, that was the point I was making.
Ow my balls!
Or like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
Bold of you to assume you still get a desktop in between all the ads.
Yeah, those ads are way to easy to ignore. Hopefully the working space randomly shifts tiles so your attention shifts periodically to the ads!
And you get jingles every few minutes that you can’t turn down or mute.
Makes you sing and dance jingle into webcam.
If you don’t sing enthusiastically enough, your files are deleted.
Not only does it move, but it gets covered by an ad and it has to track your eyeballs on that tile for 5 seconds before it reveals the desktop. That way, you spend a minute watching ads looking for the real desktop.
You a m$ employee??
Yeah, as if the desktop was the product
If you use Windows, you are the product.
@Diplomjodler3 @Ophioparma finished building my PC proceeded with installing Windows 11. Realized my failure. Installed PopOS. Life is so much better now.
It should be off in a corner or something. Not front and center where it’s blocking the main ad.
Quite optimistic view. Do you think they will be so nice and give you a completely unobstructed working area? I am pretty sure that contradicts every sane ad strategy. Where is the “Watch one minute of ads before we can start your application” window in the center? Where are the 5 identical buttons of which only one will get you to file explorer, the other ones lead to File Explorer Plus only for 5,99$ per week?
People who can build up advanced logic systems can make or adapt their own Unix-like operating system on any computer. It happened before and it’ll happen again, even if the computer uses confusing Orb stuff instead of modern bits and bytes.
Ow! My Balls! is brought to you by a Carl’s Jr.
Fuck you! I’m eating!
You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed into the custody of Carl’s Jr.
Is this the tiling manager people talk about all the time?
It’s called “adsomeWm”… highly un-customizinle.
somebody should do this in linux.
Is this the tiling manager people talk about all the time?
Ye, Microsoft’s Head of Monetization, Nolan Sorrento, calls it “Oxygen O2.” 😏
Funny u mention it looking for a new window manager thats wayland ready.
Hyprland & sway come to mind
Been leaning towards sway tbh
So…… you’ve been……. swayed?
Niri looks pretty sick, too
Just 500 years and wayland will be finally ready!
And Slackware will still be exactly the same.
I’m not as savvy at tech as many folk in this here platform, but I was knowledgeable in Napster and limewire in my early teens. A dabble of DOS 3.0 when I was in k-5. I thank you for letting me believe that counts for anything at all.
I log in to different computers at work. About half have updated to windows 11. I don’t know why only half. I’m not IT.
I miss XP to this day. The cosmetic features aren’t useful to me because I grew up with alt+tab and such. I can adapt. I bet there are reasons - but for me at work, it’s just a minor inconvenience in creating new “muscle memory”
I still miss xp
Edit- just give me my start menu bqck
Go away baton!
I still use my bought in 2012 Photoshop CS 6, almost daily, no plans to upgrade. If i need to keep one of my PCs with windows, i won’t mind sticking to a old version for the long run
GIMPs biggest upgrade in like a decade should be coming out this year, you’ll have to check it out and see if it meets your needs when it does.
Cs6 was peak PS!
What movie it this from?
Idiocracy
It’s not a movie. It’s prophecy.
That’s any future app. And the kick in the nards is that the developer who allow it earn like $2 a day if lucky. So we all get burned on the ad hellscape having hours of time wasted for $2
Not open source apps, glad I’ve pivoted to almost entirely open source software. SaaS is cancer.
This copy/paste operation brought to you by Geico. Watch this 30 second ad to unlock your clipboard.
Don’t give them ideas!
This is less intrusive than current web ads. The entire center of the screen is ad-free, no pop-ups, no banners that grey out the rest of the screen, no paywall…
In this image you could just put cardboard over all the ads to have an ad-free experience.
Can we somehow integrate ads into the display frame? Looks like dead and unused area to me.
And the decades long trend of minimizing screen bezel size suddenly reverses course.
