Honestly, yeah. I did that with my laptop and it's a perfectly fine time now. I'm more offended that those things are on by default and that you have to undo half of the changes they make every update. It doesn't take a long time, and you can end up with things OK pretty easily, but it makes me feel slimy having to make those changes at all.

That's fair, but imo windows 10 goes a lot farther. To get win10 to be as usuable as 7 you have to: disable ads in multiple places, uninstall Candy Crush that they preinstalled, make regedits to disable bing search in the menu, turn off Cortana (might also need regedits now I can't remember), and mess with notification settings, just to get an OS that isn't spamming you with ads.

It might not be a good practice, but I appreciate that in Win 7 you can choose not to update. In win10 if Microsoft thinks you need their creators update that undoes all your configuration settings, you _will_ get the update. It doesn't feel like I own the OS as much as Microsoft generously allowing me to use it for the time being.

One day I'll finally switch to Linux

With win10, it really feels like the goal is not to make a usable os. Little things, like bing in the start menu, make me feel unwanted and like a product. Win7 works fine

https://kauan.bandcamp.com/album/kaiho KAUAN: Chill Ukranian Prog Rock

Yeah, nice try wasoxygen :p

I'm guessing that the fake fact is the eyeball one, or at least I hope it is. That would be really creepy if true

Dude, boardgames are the best!

These guys are my go-to for comedy and reviews, and they just put out a holiday edition / light/party game roundup:

This was article has a really good list!

Our group has a blast with Azul, and everything in their Party game section I 100% reccommend, they're all amazing, especially Resistance/Avalon/SecretHitler and Codenames - probably my 2 most played games

Also Star Realms is amazing, literally just finished playing it and then went to check Hubski

Blood Music!

Especially these albums:

https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/sorni-nai

Based on the Djatlov Pass incident, where an "unknown compelling force" caused the death of an experienced Russian hiking expedition.

https://blood-music.bandcamp.com/album/invaders

A hollywood style alien bop

That was a trip! Thanks for sharing it :) My favorite videos with a similar vibe:

R.i.p. Florida indeed

Real: Diphthong

Fake: Zoop

Wow, that was a crazy story.