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[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 164 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HI! I'm Skype!

uninstall

Hi! I'm Skype!

uninstall

Hi! I'm skype!

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 126 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"Are you suuuuure you don't want to use Edge? Are you suuuuure you don't want it to be the default handler for .pdf and .svg files? Are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? Just in case, we'll pin it to your start menu again and put a shortcut to it on your desktop. Just until you're sure."

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apple's starting to get more and more into this. Safari pesters you and nobody wants NEWS/Stocks/AppleTv App, Weather, etc. But you can't uninstall them :(

[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was able to uninstall all of the apps you just mentioned on iPhone just to cure my curiosity.

Which Apple device is not letting you uninstall those apps?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MacOS not iPhone. Should have specified

[–] KuroJ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No worries! I was just a little confused when I tried it on my iPhone and it worked.

[–] Nexz@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s what sudo rm -rf is for 😇. I’m going to try this on my Mac to satisfy my curiosity! Will report back.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only it were that easy. You have to disable SIP basically permanently if you want to do that and I'm not confident enough to do that quite yet, much as I do love to live dangerously. Maybe someone who understands this all better might chime in on the tradeoffs or risks/benefits.

[–] Nexz@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

I’m kinda shocked that it didn’t work (tried it)! From what I’ve come to understand, the system won’t boot after removing a stock app since the checksum of the system partition changes. Whilst I’m in favour of keeping the OS healthy that way, some of the stock apps should definitely not have been included in that partition. However, today I learned!

[–] Saneless@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

Yes but you can bury a "CrApple" folder on the last page

[–] Cannibal_MoshpitV3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got so annoyed with the fucking shortcut reappearing that I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

Just out of sight and out of mind.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I put it in one corner of one monitor that I hardly look at so it never appears on my main desktop monitor.

lol I did the exact same thing. That and all the unnecessary crap my work installs that I will never use but can't even uninstall the damn shortcuts they slap on my desktop are all jammed in the corner of a monitor off to the side.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Techmaster@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

And then they made it where you can't just select a different browser, you have to go manually associate each type with the new browser.