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Remove and prevent 4 GB Gemini nano install into Chrome, on Windows 11:
Or, you know don't install software from companies owned and operated by psychopaths, like Google and Microsoft.
"Linux is hard" but godawful reg key hacks are fiiiiine, eh.
I think the overlap between people who think using Linux is hard and the people who would open regedit in the first place is basically zero.
Yup. I don't think it's hard. I used to have a dual boot setup. I'm just lazy.
And by that I mean, lazy enough that messing with regedits is something I'm already familiar/comfortable with and can do relatively quickly.
Too lazy to (re)learn an entirely new OS and file system (it's also why I'm still on Win10 because fuck Win11), learn what programs of mine are compatible and not compatible, dealing with grub/kernals anytime I need to diagnose an issue, etc.
That being said, Windows will eventually piss me off to the final breakpoint point/straw where my anger/spite will outweigh my laziness. And THEN they'll be sorry!
But until then... Opens up regedit with a sigh
Tell that to my Windows desktop support coworkers, hah.
It's really all about what you're familiar with.
I'm in the overlap where I can easily follow reg edit direction and similar tutorials but can't actually diagnose it myself. I wouldn't have a clue. These known regedit edit workaround posts exist and are spread because there's a ton of people in this overlap. We just aren't vocal because it's not one of our hills to die on.
But I can deal with cars, fix older models, and avoid buying an internet-connected model. Shit, I even learned how to fix drum brakes to maintain my options. I also disconnected my smart TV and grabbed a retired pc with win 10 pro or whatever to get some control back over that.
I do what I can, but at the end of the day, I still need to relax at some point.
Honest question, not necessarily for you but for maybe one of those people that actually understands the registry - how do those people figure that stuff out? Like, do software authors actually publish their registry config, or do people have to decompile/reverse engineer things to figure out what registry settings a given program might use?
keys tend to be organized (that's a horrible word for whatt he registry is lol) in a handful of locations depending on context. so those chrome keys are next to the other chrome keys. in enterprise we mod that area pretty often.
the 2 was to discover a new key are:
Sometimes some dev figures it out, sometimes word spreads from the devs themselves on Discord/etc. Sometimes if you contact Support they have that workaround (after escalating to engineer). Not that you can easily get to Google Engineers, but you have a much better track with say a paid Workspace account.
It's a FT job though to maintain a set of controlled software in an enterprise environment. Constant fiddling/tweaking. SOmetimes it's a RegKey, sometimes a GPO setting, sometimes you're modding a config file in AppData, or adding some lines to a Logon Script. And a lot of the info spreads by word of mouth still and to really answer your question - sometimes, no one knows where the hell it came from but after days of searching, you're happy some random forum post finally worked and you hope to never have to touch it again. Then you close your ticket and move on to the next one.
I don't miss it lol