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Katie Wickens

Down to the depths with any dev who makes 'create desktop shortcut' the default option

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Katie Wickens, person with opinions
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This week I have been mostly playing Land of the Vikings. Living my best cozy life right now as Jarl of my own little Viking settlement. Trying to balance their horniness with the village's food production values is proving quite difficult, though.

This month I have been mostly testing RTX 40-series gaming PCs. It's a bit hit or miss with these babies right now, hopefully companies will stop pairing shit supporting components with beastly GPUs soon. I'm not counting on it.

Every time I return to the sanctuary that is my Windows desktop, I am met with new icons that have somehow sprung from the ether and into my line of sight. It's turning into a game of whack-a-mole with those persistent, little icons. So why the heck is it the default for so many apps to create desktop icons by default?

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