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An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.

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1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.

2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.

3. Avoid repetitive topics.

4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.

There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It seems it's a fairly cookie cutter program that wastes an awful lot of bytes and CPU cycles on just emptying your recycle bin, removing "internet clutter," (i.e. clearing your cache and temp files), removing broken shortcuts, twiddling your run-on-startup apps, etc., which are all actions that are not only fabulously unlikely to make your Windows machine perform any faster but are also all things you could do yourself in about thirty seconds.

I lifted that screenshot from this video, chosen purely on the merits of this guy's hat.

You can also find plenty of places to download the installer found on the Win Cleaner USB drive (it's just a cheap USB storage stick in a funny shaped housing) and try it yourself... possibly preferably inside a virtual machine.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ironically, clearing cache will make your Internet browsing slower.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nuh-uh, I never visit the same site twice

[–] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not even Google, to google Google?

[–] Klear@quokk.au 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I prefer to go to Bing to google DuckDuckGo.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

So it doesn't even remove unnecessary startup apps? Are you fucking kidding me? What a waste of money.