Yikes - I haven't used W11 yet as my work PC is still on 10.
Now I don't want to upgrade.
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You need to dump Windows for Linux and your life will get better.
I have used Linux at home for over a decade.
i like that in W11 you can screen shot by drawing a rectangle whereas in W10 its either full screen or app window
but W11 feels less coherent overall as it adds another layer of "modernity" but still keeps all of the previous layers underneath and most of the functionality is in those deeper layers
like why add new layers if most functions aren't going to be in them
i wouldn't avoid upgrading i just think they should have done a better job
it feels like it was slapped together by a few guys in their spare time not made by a trillion dollar corporation
actually i just realized my issue with startup folder was on my windows 10 pc ...
i have windows 11 on my two newer PCs but i was on windows 10 when i ran into this issue ...
also that's probably why Google AI suggestions didn't work, because i probably asked for solutions for W11 ...
regardless my other point about W11 trying to make things simpler but actually ending up making them more complicated stands ...
my other point also stands that i am not against upgrading but they should have done a better job ...
that was a disturbing brain glitch ...
i think what happened is i was hating windows so much because of the ridiculous nature of the problem, and because i knew that everybody hates windows 11 that something in my brain short circuited and decided that i must be on windows 11 ...
the frightening thing is that something very similar happened before. one time i posted a meme on Twitter saying the reason poor people are fat is because expensive fridges look like this:
and cheap ones look like this:
that tweet went viral and racked up a shitload of RTs and likes before somebody pointed out that my "cheap fridge" was actually a freezer ...
that was fucking embarrassing but at least i was able to delete the tweet ...
this is fucked up on two levels:
1 - in a world where everybody is a liar i can't trust my own mind.
2 - my tweets that are horribly wrong end up being more popular than the ones where i am stating objective facts.
in both of these cases ( both the fridge/freezer and the windows 10/11 ) the posts elicited positive response because they FELT right.
this means that i am simultaneously insane and also that what little sanity i do have is actually just getting in my way.
i feel sick to the stomach.
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that a brain can glitch like this isn't scary - our brains hallucinate the same way AI does
what is scary is that i didn't catch it happening and it made it all the way through to a page long tweet
making mistakes is not an issue - the issue is not catching them in time
it is debilitating when you can't trust your own mind
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