• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Like when you buy the thing sooner? Cuz we would remove all the bloatware they add. They used to do that to computers and we just stopped buying those shit things and building our own.

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      15 days ago

      Shit man. I used to work at a Circuit City at the height of bloated shitty Celeron PCs.

      We would be forced to sell a “system optimization” on each PC we sold. It was just a script that uninstalled a few of the bloatware items and tweaked the animation speed to make the customer think we did something incredible.

      I fucking hated that job!

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          14 days ago

          Did you not see they said circuit city? Probably felt it was redundant to call it a scam.

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        14 days ago

        I made a lot of money when I had a shop reloading machines. After a clean install without all the crap the manufactures and some of the stores installed the customer was happy with the speed increase.

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        14 days ago

        Reads like a scam. Maybe our time is not as full of scams as compared to the past.

        After all, memories get distorted. As kids and teens we’d have parents look out for us and give good advice, helping us avoid some of the worse parts.

      • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        Ah okay. I thought I was dead and went to heaven accidentally. I guess I’m back here. I’ll just place my nuts on the anvil so my new phone can be safely smashed over them. Or like how can I buy a phone that is actually truly mine and not the phone company’s?