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Is the "Recommended Apps" thing turned on? I don't know if it's the one causing this but I think disabling/removing it will help.
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Yeah I must have hit that button when trying to update every app on the phone during set up. Took me an eternity to figure out that I had to take away all permissions from Galaxy Store, turn off all app settings, and delete my data from the store, and uninstall the updated version of the store off my phone. Instead of going to a setting in the app to turn off "Install bloatware on my device".
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Android and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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Android is fine on it's own, shit like Google Play Services and whatever retarded bloat your OEM rapes you with are the things you should blame. There's a bunch of ways to get rid of them if you don't mind giving up a lot of jewgle stuffs.
DapperShark
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Motherfucking EasyAntiCheat, I've been attempting to go through Elden Ring again in preparation for the DLC and I keep BSODing with a KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE error, it's random when it happens, sometimes it takes around an hour, sometimes it takes less and very rarely it doesn't happen at all.
At first I was afraid this was a problem with my hardware but after doing all sorts of tests which all indicate there's nothing wrong on my end and searching online I started suspecting EAC because this just doesn't happen with other games, I tested the only other EAC game I play, Armored Core 6 which also hadn't been touched for months and sure enough, same thing happens there now, I then tested both games without EAC (using modengine2 to bypass it) and lo and behold, I don't crash on either game anymore (they run much better without EAC too, though you can only play offline with this method), for good measure I also used windbg to check the BSOD dump logs and they all point to EasyAntiCheat_EOS as the culprit.
I've scoured the internet for weeks looking for a solution and it turns out this isn't an isolated incident, it affects a ton of people playing all sorts of different games and I haven't been able to get a definitive solution, I've tried everything from repairing the EAC install, deleting it and reinstalling it, to doing a clean reinstall of both ER and AC6 and moving them to a different drive and nothing fucking works, the only thing I haven't attempted is updating the BIOS but I'm extremely reluctant to mess with that as I'm retarded and afraid I'll fuck up my computer (and from what I see people online saying, it's not guaranteed to fix the problem). So it looks like I'm shit out of luck and will have to keep using the modengine bypass if I want to keep playing, losing out on multiplayer functionality in the process.
The most infuriating part (brace yourselves for even more autistic rambling) is that EAC does fucking NOTHING to prevent hackers, they bypassed it literally the first week of release if not day one and players had a perfectly functional way to deal with them in previous games in the form of the community developed mod known as Blue Sentinel, that shit stopped hackers dead on their tracks. There was a very infamous souls hacker known as Malcolm Reynolds who would target streamers and thoroughly fuck their shit up, he could do all sorts of crazy shit such as breaking all the items in your inventory and killing all the NPCs in your world, he could reset all the progress on someone's save or send them straight into NG+, trap them in an infinite death loop or even inject hacked items into their inventory (this would get you softbanned) and he got cucked by Blue Sentinel, that's how good that mod is. The only reason Blue Sentinel even had to be developed in the first place is because Fromsoft never gave a shit about PC players, hacks that worked all the way back on the original DS1 PTDE still worked on DS3, the only time they listened was when the Blue Sentinel dev discovered an RCE exploit that affected all three Dark Souls games a few months before Elden Ring's release and reported it to Fromsoft (this why the servers were down for months), instead of working with the guy and integrating his mod's functionality into Elden Ring they just added that piece of fucking dogshit known as EasyAntiCheat and called it a day and if AC6 is any indication it seems like they're gonna keep doing that for future releases.
I already didn't have any sort of moral hangups over pirating but Fromsoft is one of the few companies that still consistently releases games I enjoy and as such had no issue giving them my money but if they're going to keep bundling their games with malware (because I can't describe EAC as anything else) then I'm all the more emboldened to sail the high seas.
At first I was afraid this was a problem with my hardware but after doing all sorts of tests which all indicate there's nothing wrong on my end and searching online I started suspecting EAC because this just doesn't happen with other games, I tested the only other EAC game I play, Armored Core 6 which also hadn't been touched for months and sure enough, same thing happens there now, I then tested both games without EAC (using modengine2 to bypass it) and lo and behold, I don't crash on either game anymore (they run much better without EAC too, though you can only play offline with this method), for good measure I also used windbg to check the BSOD dump logs and they all point to EasyAntiCheat_EOS as the culprit.
I've scoured the internet for weeks looking for a solution and it turns out this isn't an isolated incident, it affects a ton of people playing all sorts of different games and I haven't been able to get a definitive solution, I've tried everything from repairing the EAC install, deleting it and reinstalling it, to doing a clean reinstall of both ER and AC6 and moving them to a different drive and nothing fucking works, the only thing I haven't attempted is updating the BIOS but I'm extremely reluctant to mess with that as I'm retarded and afraid I'll fuck up my computer (and from what I see people online saying, it's not guaranteed to fix the problem). So it looks like I'm shit out of luck and will have to keep using the modengine bypass if I want to keep playing, losing out on multiplayer functionality in the process.
The most infuriating part (brace yourselves for even more autistic rambling) is that EAC does fucking NOTHING to prevent hackers, they bypassed it literally the first week of release if not day one and players had a perfectly functional way to deal with them in previous games in the form of the community developed mod known as Blue Sentinel, that shit stopped hackers dead on their tracks. There was a very infamous souls hacker known as Malcolm Reynolds who would target streamers and thoroughly fuck their shit up, he could do all sorts of crazy shit such as breaking all the items in your inventory and killing all the NPCs in your world, he could reset all the progress on someone's save or send them straight into NG+, trap them in an infinite death loop or even inject hacked items into their inventory (this would get you softbanned) and he got cucked by Blue Sentinel, that's how good that mod is. The only reason Blue Sentinel even had to be developed in the first place is because Fromsoft never gave a shit about PC players, hacks that worked all the way back on the original DS1 PTDE still worked on DS3, the only time they listened was when the Blue Sentinel dev discovered an RCE exploit that affected all three Dark Souls games a few months before Elden Ring's release and reported it to Fromsoft (this why the servers were down for months), instead of working with the guy and integrating his mod's functionality into Elden Ring they just added that piece of fucking dogshit known as EasyAntiCheat and called it a day and if AC6 is any indication it seems like they're gonna keep doing that for future releases.
I already didn't have any sort of moral hangups over pirating but Fromsoft is one of the few companies that still consistently releases games I enjoy and as such had no issue giving them my money but if they're going to keep bundling their games with malware (because I can't describe EAC as anything else) then I'm all the more emboldened to sail the high seas.
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Womble of Wimbledon
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How the fuck do you even work under those conditions? How much of your day is just waiting around for the computer to get moving?
GNU Abyss
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Because of the "J". It's written in Java and likely uses Java's old GUI framework that doesn't bother appearing native to the OS it's being launched on. I don't think being ugly classifies a piece of software as shitty. From what I've heard, it does its job really well.
RVNX
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Fucking Antivirus programs have to be the biggest scams around. Recently got infected with some cookie/password stealer bullshit that had me on edge for the past two days because no matter what antivirus I tried (Bitdefender, Kaspersky, HitmanPro, RogueKiller, NPE, ESET), none of them would pick up on its persistence. (Which, ironically, was dropped in C![:\](/styles/custom/emotes/svg/chris-confused.svg "Confused :\")
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I suppose it used long loops to evade detection, but in the end only Defender picked it up. I bulldozed my Windows install to be safe (and because it was like 7 years old at this point), but I'm still paranoid it might have left something on my external. Searching for the files it usually dropped revealed nothing at least.
I ended up loading it into Tria.ge, pulling the IP it sent data to and filed an abuse report which ended up in a take down. At first I thought whoever it was might have just used some kinda script to try and change emails and passwords for all the stuff it pulled, but apparently whoever Eastern-European faggot is behind this is too busy being a coomer on a long forgotten Pixiv account.
ProgramData)I suppose it used long loops to evade detection, but in the end only Defender picked it up. I bulldozed my Windows install to be safe (and because it was like 7 years old at this point), but I'm still paranoid it might have left something on my external. Searching for the files it usually dropped revealed nothing at least.
I ended up loading it into Tria.ge, pulling the IP it sent data to and filed an abuse report which ended up in a take down. At first I thought whoever it was might have just used some kinda script to try and change emails and passwords for all the stuff it pulled, but apparently whoever Eastern-European faggot is behind this is too busy being a coomer on a long forgotten Pixiv account.
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It helps that my work doesn't actually require too much to be done directly on the computer. Once the browser is open for example it will run somewhat normally as long as I don't open too many tabs (which is easy to do since I have the virtual machine if I ever need to open more complimentary stuff no related to the proprietary sites) and while it does take a good 40 seconds to go through the process of saving a word document or sending it to print it does work.
Perhaps the best thing is the fact that I do a lot of work on different separated computers for scanning documents and digitizing old papers, including the big one meant for scanning building plans and large format docs which is actually kept disconnected from the internet so it doesn't have the monitoring software and the old computer where the old storage data is kept which is a windows 98 machine (which starts up faster than my current one hilariously enough, though it is a Pentium 4 which is kinda overkill for 98, and also why I have access to virtual machines on my work PC since there are plans to eventually keep such old software relegated to virtual machines running old windows. Not that this would work with Win 98 because win 9x versions don't play nice with VMs but that is a story for another day)
I half suspect the computer itself might be malfunctioning, as it has been slowing down consistently since I began working at a constant if slow rate. I think this p.o.s. spyware might have been slowly frying the HDD. I.T. has said they will get around to formatting my machine and if it doesn't help they are just gonna get a new one.
RVNX
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Not particularly. But having most of the boot bloat gone is nice, considering I installed the IoT LTSC this time around.
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Yeah, it uses Swing. The keys beginning graphicaluserinterfacesettings and lafsettings in the Advanced config control UI elements ('theme' being the main one of course, besides colors).
A lot of the interface depends on hand tuned UI element sizing/spacing, so using a non-universal theme.. can be a problem. @George Lucas If you want a more modern look, something that looks like mid 2000s uTorrent, JD_PLAIN is actually a really good choice to change to. If your native GUI is close in terms of widget sizes, text etc to what JDownloader expects, the JAVA_SYSTEM theme (plus tweaks to colors etc) may get you some way towards a system theme.
It looks quite good to me with JAVA_SYSTEM, and the 'flat' iconset under lafsettings with XFCE and the Chicago95 theme. But you do get little off-by-one pixel issues that wouldn't be there with JD_PLAIN or the default.
TroonsDid911
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Adobe Acrobat is the shittiest office software ever made and is a blight on humanity and an actual, legitimate reason to criticize capitalism. This fucking bloated, unintuitively designed pile of garbage is needed to use most advanced documents because for some reason Adobe controls PDFs exclusively. Words cannot describe my burning hatred of this software.
Oh you want to merge these two certificate files that have different people and information filled out on them and has already been saved and cannot be edited? NOPE. We are just going to pick one at random and have it overwrite the second one because fuck you goyim we own the rights.
Kill Adobe, Behead Adobe, Roundhouse kick Adobe into the concrete etc...
Oh you want to merge these two certificate files that have different people and information filled out on them and has already been saved and cannot be edited? NOPE. We are just going to pick one at random and have it overwrite the second one because fuck you goyim we own the rights.
Kill Adobe, Behead Adobe, Roundhouse kick Adobe into the concrete etc...
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It does, it's one of the best. I quite like that its "ugly". Fuck all that sleek modern minimalist shit made for the thumbless masses. Good old-fashioned fuck ugly java.
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Anything from Adobe. I'm genuinely impressed they managed to make it near-impossible to pirate their shit (hint: it's proprietary malware) and considering the sheer bloat of it all I'm considering this a good opportunity to go cold turkey.
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From your lips to God's ears brother. Mashallah we shall live to see Adobe die.
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I remember having this issue with Acrobat Pro where the DRM would exponentially memory leak all over the place, crashing windows after a minute or so. Apparantely it was a bad config file.
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their creativecloud shit acts like literal malware, installing itself into all sorts of places and generally being a pain to removeI remember having this issue with Acrobat Pro where the DRM would exponentially memory leak all over the place, crashing windows after a minute or so. Apparantely it was a bad config file.
DRM should be illegal