Five more Microsoft apps nobody uses will have the uninstall option enabled soon.
    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1081·
      1 year ago

      “Are you suuuuure you don’t want to use Edge? Are you suuuuure you don’t want it to be the default handler for .pdf and .svg files? Are you sure? Are you sure you’re sure? Just in case, we’ll pin it to your start menu again and put a shortcut to it on your desktop. Just until you’re sure.”

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
        224·
        1 year ago

        Apple’s starting to get more and more into this. Safari pesters you and nobody wants NEWS/Stocks/AppleTv App, Weather, etc. But you can’t uninstall them :(

        • KuroJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          1 year ago

          I was able to uninstall all of the apps you just mentioned on iPhone just to cure my curiosity.

          Which Apple device is not letting you uninstall those apps?

            • KuroJ@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              No worries! I was just a little confused when I tried it on my iPhone and it worked.

            • Nexz@feddit.nlEnglish
              12·
              1 year ago

              That’s what sudo rm -rf is for 😇. I’m going to try this on my Mac to satisfy my curiosity! Will report back.

              • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                1 year ago

                If only it were that easy. You have to disable SIP basically permanently if you want to do that and I’m not confident enough to do that quite yet, much as I do love to live dangerously. Maybe someone who understands this all better might chime in on the tradeoffs or risks/benefits.

                • Nexz@feddit.nlEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I’m kinda shocked that it didn’t work (tried it)! From what I’ve come to understand, the system won’t boot after removing a stock app since the checksum of the system partition changes. Whilst I’m in favour of keeping the OS healthy that way, some of the stock apps should definitely not have been included in that partition. However, today I learned!

        • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
          520·
          1 year ago

          I can always count on at least one idiot to mention Apple in a Microsoft hate thread.

          • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
            123·
            1 year ago

            I think you should go back to Reddit if you want to engage with people like that just crazy right out of the gate

                • Clent@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  1 year ago

                  Nope.

                  I pointed out the reliability of such a response.

                  Big difference between pointing out something vs demanding it stop.

                  • qfjp@lemmy.oneEnglish
                    3·
                    1 year ago

                    Oh okay! just the… reliability… of a… demand? a demand which… starts with “I think”?

                    Well good thing your pointing is so reliable!

      • Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        I got so annoyed with the fucking shortcut reappearing that I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

        Just out of sight and out of mind.

        • kite@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

          lol I did the exact same thing. That and all the unnecessary crap my work installs that I will never use but can’t even uninstall the damn shortcuts they slap on my desktop are all jammed in the corner of a monitor off to the side.

      • Techmaster@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        And then they made it where you can’t just select a different browser, you have to go manually associate each type with the new browser.