I will, in all likelihood, not be posting there that often, as Tumblr and Reddit are still my primary social media. But I have made this account in the event that Tumblr collapses and/or implodes in on itself.
If you want to, please follow me or bookmark my BlueSky account now! I am very worried about Tumblr becoming unusable in the near future, and we don’t want another Livejournal situation where everyone scatters and we can’t find each other anymore.
You too can get the satisfaction of maiming or killing a spy embedded in your organization.
HELL YEAH DESHITTIFICATION!
For everything we do here, please be sure to be careful with what you edit, and restart your computer to lock things in.
If you donât have access to the Group editor, (likely to happen if youâre on base windows) you can do this as well by opening your Registry Editor app, then inputting this after your âcomputerâ or whatever the initial segment is. (Mine is computer. If I just try and paste the below string it gets SO mad at me)
Navigate to your âDisableSearchBoxSuggestionsâ bit, if you donât see it, you can make it by right clicking and creating a new registry D-Word key of that exact name. Edit the key, set it to 1. Itâll look like this if you do it right!
To get rid of Windows Spotlight, (The thing where it pulls up ten billion pages on windows start page, shoving ads in your face and cluttering everything) we go to
And set âEnabled Stateâ To 0. If you do it right, itâll look like this!
Disabling edge on startup will also help a fair deal with processing speed and the like. This you can do in all sorts of ways, the easiest being turning it off entirely on startup through settings in the like.
If you want to kill it *entirely*, though? :)
In regedit, run along to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft
Navigate to your MicrosoftEdge key subcategory. If you donât see it, you can make one! Note, this is a KEY, not a d-word. *inside* that subcategory, we want to either make or find the D-Word key of PreventLaunchEdge and set that to 1 in the same way as all the others. Itâll look like this.
Aaaand while weâre here, Iâd HIGHLY recommend shanking Killer Networking Services. Itâs just bloatware. (Ostensibly itâs supposed to monitor your network bandwidth and even things out, but that really means itâs constantly monitoring and pinging things, which eats up the bandwidth you DO get, and also chunks your computerâs processing power.) Getting rid of it entirely is borderline impossible, since itâs set to redownload on regular updates and intel is very pushy with its updates.
This you can do by opening your Services.msc, which basically shows you all the background stuff that Windows does. Find Anything with Killer in the name, right click it, go to properties, and disable startup. It should look like this, if done successfully. It will probably reenable itself in time/in later updates for windows, but itâs a quick fix. Iâd also check your TaskScheduler app to make sure that nothingâs scheduled to open up there, either.
If you CAN completely kill Killer services through uninstalling and the like, I would warn that at very least for my computer, the only ethernet/lan support applications that are available ARE Killerâs. When you download updates, you really do have to do it manually and ONLY download the ethernet services, or just be cool with not having Lan functionality.
(Note- This isnât the string copy paste from the reddit thread, this is mine that does the same thing. If my string doesnât work for you, check the reddit thread string. If that doesnât work either, you can follow the path and find it pretty easily. Probably has like, one letter of difference somewhere. The bits all start the same, though, so itâs easy to find.)
and go to âattributesâ. Set the value from 1 to 2, and now in your advanced Power Plan settings in control panel, youâll be able to *see* turbo boost and turn it off.
Itâll look like this, and in power options, a successful disabling of boost should look like this.
Turning off quick startupâs also a good call, since that basically stops your restarts from actually shutting things down properly.
GOOD LUCK OUT THERE YALL. MAKE SURE TO CLEAN YOUR PC!
it’s so wild that the best lyric in pop music history (“tell your boyfriend / if he says he’s got beef / that I’m a vegetarian and I ain’t fuckin scared of him”) and the worst lyric in history (“do the hellen keller and talk with yo hips”) are both from the same song (“DONTTRUSTME” by 3OH!3). just. crazy how that works
Oh my fucking God. They completely demolished the entire east wing. The whole thing is rubble now. Trump just tore down half of the White House.
(picture from the article linked above)
This was supposedly done in preparation for construction of his self involved ballroom project, but he had claimed before that no changes would be made to the existing building structure. And now half of this unbelievably historic building is gone.
iâm reblogging these pictures becauseâŚyeah, in the most literal way possible, one-third of the White House, the USAâs most famous, iconic and symbolic historic building, was just completely fucking obliterated
Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they’ve gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.
So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here’s what you want to do:
In the url bar, type in about:config
It’ll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.
One by one, you’re going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:
Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that’s peachy.
The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we’re just tidying the garden a lil bit.
As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoftâs most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, Iâve been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.
FIRST:
The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:
Itâs very easy, even if youâre not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying âARE YOU SURE?â Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).
Now that youâve done that, hereâs the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, itâs good to double check).
Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and âDiscoverâ AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then thereâs this uncanny valley garbage:
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No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple âsmooths your skinâ add on).
There is a great deal of truth there. Sometimes special moments happen purely by accident. But most of them happen because you make a plan and create the conditions to let them happen.
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