alt Hacker NewsSome people don't mind ads on the radio, when they're watching a show, some people don't mind pop-ups, etc.
Now, if I search on win11 to start a program (which is what they want you to do), why does auto complete call out to the Internet? Users had had browsers for over two decades, who has asked Microsoft to mix local search, application startup and web search?
As it turns out, I really hated on-call my whole career. I guess different personalities here, as well.
> if I search on win11 to start a program (which is what they want you to do), why does auto complete call out to the Internet?
This is how I launch most of my programs and it has literally never been an issue for me, it always does exactly what I expect, which is to launch the program I have installed locally.
I don't give a fuck if it makes an HTTP call or performs an incantation to the god of search in the background, as long as it just gives me my locally installed software instantly, which it does.
> As it turns out, I really hated on-call my whole career.
Read my bio.