Excrubulent

joined 2 years ago
[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oof, yeah, those vibes are rancid. The website is covered in shady looking links and they want you to download an exe, which you don't need for a simple registry edit which can be done with a text file.

This link shows you how to make the .reg file: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownership-files-using-right-click-context-menu-windows-10

For my money that's way easier than doing it manually through the registry editor yourself, and you can inspect the code to see what it's doing.

If you want to see the manual steps to take ownership without the registry entry, it looks like this: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownership-files-and-folders-windows-10

If that isn't a dark pattern then I don't know what is. They do not want you to have control over your machine, at all.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

The way I do it is I have a script that adds an entry in file explorer called "Take Ownership". I don't have to use it often but when I do it's a life saver, and it doesn't blanket take ownership of the whole disk.

Obviously an elevated super user like linux has would be much more secure, but it's windows, they're not interested in security if it isn't about their share price.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Every single person who ever lived could use this logic and they'd never see it disproven.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yo so lemmy.world isn't run by tankies? If it is could y'all just ban me now so I don't invest too much in the instance pls? I got kind of sick of the constant cycle of disappointment seeing how many supposedly leftist subs were taken over and ruined by them on reddit.