[ID: Teenage Stanford Pines sits with his back to the viewer in an empty, darkened government office waiting area. His shoulders are hunched past his ears and he is holding an EMF reader in his hands. End ID.]
For my @fanartfrenzy bingo, I promised Ford having a breakdown at the DMV and i have brought you Ford having a breakdown at the DMV
(He's calibrating his EMF reader and NOT crying about his brother being dead. You can tell because of how not distraught he looks.)
From @caninescreations' fic Res Derelictae in their Gravity Falls AU Bloodsucker Brother, in which Stan is eventually a vampire but currently is a ghost that Ford can't find. (content warning for yknow. major character death. he gets better)
As more and more people are being forced to switch to Windows 11, Microsoft's most AI-malware-ridden OS yet, I've been putting together articles and links for how to undo the damage and save your battery, your RAM, your disk space, your privacy, and your sanity from this bullshit.
FIRST:
The easiest way to get rid of the majority of the bullshit that Windows is forcing on us, as of October 2025, is this one-stop-one-click debloat solution from a modern day hero:
It's very easy, even if you're not tech savvy or get scared of pop up windows saying "ARE YOU SURE?" Yes, you are sure, I promise. This program takes maybe two minutes and will save you SO MUCH pain, time, and money (and exploitation).
Now that you've done that, here's the cleanup, to catch the little shit that the debloat might have missed (most of this will already be done by debloat, but hey, it's good to double check).
Even just reading about some of these features makes me angry. Fucking Copilot and "Discover" AI scrapers are in Notepad. NOTEPAD. And then there's this uncanny valley garbage:
ALT
No uncanny valley video calls for me, thanks! (Also, what else is it doing while it scans your face and listens to your calls? What else, microsoft? Because there was a lot of memory being assigned to this program for a simple "smooths your skin" add on).