Posts by John Wilson55

Does anyone else feel like every time they open a news app or a major website, there's some sort of "can you pass this quiz?" prompt staring them in the face? It feels like the internet has moved away from just reporting the news to constantly trying to gamify our attention. I used to enjoy a bit of trivia, but now it feels like a relentless push to prove how "informed" we are, often based on stuff that's barely even news to begin with.

I find it a bit exhausting, honestly. It’s like there’s this constant pressure to keep up with every single tiny detail of pop culture or political nonsense just to stay "current." It makes me want to close the tab entirely. I’d much rather read a deep dive into a topic than be poked with a stick every Thursday to see if I remember some random headline from three days ago.

Does this constant "test yourself" culture actually make us more informed, or is it just a way to keep us clicking through more ads?

I stripped the skin off it, scrubbed the registry, and specifically hunted down that one file—it’s gone. Yet, here we are. No matter how much I wipe the slate clean, it keeps popping back up like it's haunting me. It's clearly hiding somewhere deep in the system, resurfacing every single time.

I wiped everything via the Control Panel, and now there’s absolutely nothing left.

Hey, I installed the Democratic Party software, then uninstalled it after a while, and now I keep getting an error saying "macOS can't find pes6.exe, make sure you type the name correctly."
Does anyone have a fix for this? I have no clue why this keeps popping up after I already wiped the program from my system.

I've got an old machine running Vista. Where can I actually find a decent version of Windows to install on it? Since the hardware is about 7 years old, what would be the best move here?

Wrong place for this topic.*