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Microsoft's official "Bing Wallpaper app" does some nasty, malware-like things to Windows
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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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Why do people need an app for wallpapers? Just find some nice photos on Flickr, DeviantArt, whatever, save them all to a folder, and configure the OS to change it once per week.
Reminds me of the "free smileys" and "free mouse cursors" apps from the 2000s. I thought we had evolved past that.
How do you save a picture? Where is Downloads? How do you apply a saved picture as a wallpaper?
These are confusing questions to boomers and Gen Z.
Why not have a simple app which "automatically" does all the hard work (just in exchange of a little of your data)?
As a "boomer" myself, I do know the secret of the 'right click: Save as'. Who do you think thought up the idea-- that's right, a Boomer. And we taught Gen X about it. Not my fault they didn't pass on the ancient and now arcane knowledge to future generations. But I suppose you need to know how to use a mouse before you can right click anything. Having attempted to teach 3D CAD to high school students, my first job was to show them how to use a mouse and why fingers and CAD don't mix. And do it before we could actually move on to the subject matter they were supposed to be learning.
Still I do use an app for rotate my backgrounds and quotes. The app Variety works well with KDE Plasma with a large selection of repositories to choose from with beautiful backgrounds without taking up extra space on my drives. But what do I know, I'm just a boomer.
As a millennial myself, I have immense respect for "tech boomers". They walked so that we could run during the 90s tech boom.
I have seen young people not knowing any other directory other than
Downloadsand not understanding that there is a filesystem inside their phone.The file is not in my downloads
Me: Have you checked other directories?
Other directories?
Me: Okay, open your file manager.
What's a file manager?
Me: Okay, do you have Google Files (an application which I detest but I know is pre-installed in Android phone)
Umm...have to check.
Those are the lazy people. Lazy people refuse to learn new things. You don't sound lazy.
Don't be like them. Hang out with those people that piss excellence.