Discussion Comfy Café #14

Enshittification for cash grab and surveilance.

Honestly, I need to find alternatives to the fukking ERPs I currently use. If it were not for the fact that they are Windows exclusive, I would have switched my work systems to Ubuntu or Linux Mint long ago. A cousin recommended Mac. I will never go Apple, though. Mac OS is just windows with a different coat of paint.

And the only reason my personal laptop has Windows still is because of gaming. Fukk.

 

Later!

 

Enterprise Resource Planning

We use Tally and Winman for accounting and Income Tax return filing respectively. They both require Windows XP SP3 or above to work.

 

@Gobb

I have been using Vivaldi for work for the past couple of hours. They seem to have made improvements all around, and also solved the GPU rasterization issue which caused it to crash when playing videos. It is also just much faster and more responsive in general.

 

It actually does. You can uninstall co-pilot completely in Windows 10 Enterprise, as far as I know. However, it still comes bundled with MS Edge, a browser which you can't uninstall or even just disable (at least not without some great difficulty). You can, at best, disable co-pilot in MS Edge on Windows 10 Enterprise. I think...

Yeah. Now, if they make the ad blocker on the mobile version as good as Brave's; or bring in extension support (which they say "is on the radar" for an upcoming update); then I might consider using Vivaldi on my phone again. I actually consider it to be quite good on mobile; even better than Brave as a whole package; it even does better than Brave on battery life and browsing speeds. Literally the only issue is that the ad-blocker on the mobile version is not as good as on the desktop counterpart or Brave's in-built one. The tracker blocker is actually almost as good as on Brave's, but not the ad-blocker.

 

Cybershack AU has an article on how to disable Edge in most Windows versions. I should check it out some time.

Blocking ads will not break a website. However, blocking certain trackers or using an annoyance filter definitely will. This is most noticeable on youtube. If you enable Brave's youtube annoyance filter or Vivaldi's Fanboy annoyance list, it will break youtube and the site won't work properly.

 

I have never gotten a warning to disable adblock on youtube to date. However, there are some popular websites where you do get such a warning. Notebookcheck, for example.