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Are we married to the same person?

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What?! 9000!?!

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I run O&O Shut Up 10 on every install of Windows 10 and 11 I need to suffer through. There's still a bit of manual config to remove search bar and other GUI stuff but it's a pretty great, free tool.

You also might want to script it to run on boot as Windows loves to revert changes after updates as another commentor noted.

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Jesus Christ, content warning for that body count you crossed off at the end there.

Fuck. I miss all those shops. Can I get a R.I.P. for Babbages, Game Crazy (pre-hollywood buyout) and Software Etc... while we're at it?

No sense in not going totally dark here. Haha

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Oh yeah man, GameStop was at the forefront of what the industry as a whole is doing now. Acquiring, consuming, shitting out a husk.

I'm of 2 minds with GameStop nowadays. On one hand, it's somewhat nice to still have a physical game store. On the other, it's fucking GameStop and all the baggage that comes with that.

I don't see much of a future for physical shops at this point. Especially with Best Buy, Walmart and Kroger phasing out retail space.

Soon we'll have nothing but digital and subscription and I guess we'll like it? I'll hold on to my dragons hoard of physical games as long as I can (thanks Game Crazy for employing new throughout high school) but it'll be painful the day I realize I'm no longer adding new stuff to it.

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As an avid Bawls drinker, I 100% agree with this sentiment.

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Went to the one in LA on a trip recently. Was awesome to see that much great music on one spot again.

It's wild that we probably won't see a return to those types of stores ever again. COVID really put the final nail in the coffin.

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Aww man, good to know! I wish we had a microcenter nearby. Closest one is at least a state away.

Maybe they'll ship it. Haha

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We had a pretty big event at Game Crazy. I think those shirts finally got retired after my kid grew out of them quite a few years ago.

I unfortunately... put them in the dryer to much throughout the years and they seem to have shrank. Yeah, that's what happened.

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This is 100% the dystopian reality we are heading for. Maybe not in the near-term future but, there is no way that eventually corporate greed and shareholder gains won't reach a point that this has to become the reality. They are simply leaving too much money on the table by not doing it.

I think our only saving grace is that the laws haven't been defined enough yet to prevent this from happening. But I have to imagine to some degree it already is. Just look at the way driving telemetry is being sold to auto insurance providers in the States already. If the information is out there, someone will get their hands in it and use it to manipulate the price of something.

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Likely because a large portion of the people who are employed at these venues are, generally speaking, more vulnerable and susceptible to abusive cycles and behaviors.

I have known and been friends with a few people in the sex work trade throughout the years and generally they didn't end up there because they came from solid foundational bedrocks of self-care and self-advocacy growing up.

Of course, that's not to say that my anecdotal experience is empirical, but I'd wager reality sways a little closer to what I've seen than the opposite.

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I've heard Super Mario Wonder is fantastic and may just run great on Steam Deck.

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch::Google is testing a feature that places a call to a business , waits on hold and then give you a call once a representative is available.

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My last few Pixels have had a similar option when calling IVR systems. "hold for me" it's labeled as. I still have to navigate the initial prompts but once it's hold time, I hit the button and it sits through the hold music, promoting me once it detects an agent.

It will Speech to Text the menus if you press the option as soon as you dial in. That's a little less useful currently.

One of the things I miss after dropping Graphene on my Pixel 8.

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Dammit. I am deeply hurt by this comic representation of me.

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Pain Olympics? I have vague memories of that.

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