Windows 11 should not exist, no one should use it for any reason, it puts ads in the file explorer and has made it so file searches are also web searches and this cannot be turned off except through registry editing. Whoever is responsible for those decisions should be killed, full stop.

For anyone who'd like to follow along, I'm gonna share how to get around those things with group policies bc they're more user friendly and descriptive than registry editor imo :3 I'll also show how to get around needing a Microsoft account to get setup.

For the Device Setup

"OOBE" stands for Out Of Box Experience which is what that setup workflow is. But it also happens to be a folder with a little program in it that'll let you skip connecting to the internet; this makes it so you don't have to sign up with a Microsoft account and can just use a normal local one instead. And it already comes preinstalled! Here's how you get to it:

Hold Shift + F10, or Shift + Fn + F10 depending on your keyboard.

Click inside the window that pops up, type the following and press enter afterwards to run it: OOBE\BypassNRO

I believe it should restart your computer automatically, but if not then restart your computer or type: shutdown /r /t 0 /f

Now when you're brought back to the setup workflow, the page where you connect to the internet will have a new button on it that lets you say you don't have internet. Clicking that and proceeding through the rest of the setup lets you get around the Microsoft account thing.

Group Policies

You don't have to know much about them, these are just a bunch of specific settings for what your computer can or can't do that lets you decide how it works in different ways.

I'm gonna show you how to turn off the recommendations and internet stuff basically. For now bring up search and type gpedit, pick this

It'll open up to Local Group Policy Editor and we can get started :3c

Start Recommendations

In the side menu, go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Click on Settings to sort them with all the "Turn off" ones bumped to the top.

Here's what you should set:

Turn off user tracking: enabled

Turn off feature advertisement balloon notifications: enabled

Remove Recommended section from Start Menu: enabled

Remove Personalized Website Recommendations from the Recommended section in the Start Menu: enabled

Do not search Internet: enabled

Windows Spotlight

Back in the side menu, go down to Windows Components > Cloud Content

Turn off all Windows spotlight features: enabled

Do not use diagnostic data for tailored experiences: enabled

Cortana

In the side menu, this one's back at the top under Computer Configuration. You're gonna want to go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Allow Cortana: disabled

Don't search the web or display web results in Search: enabled

News and Interests

In the side menu go to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests.

Enable news and interests on the taskbar: disabled

Microsoft Account Login Nudges

When you don't use a Microsoft account they'll nudge you repeatedly to sign in so you can "get the most out of your experience" *gag*. The group policy for turning that off has a note that suggests it might not work with Windows 11 though (implicitly), so you can close the group policy editor window now and for this last one let's just open up the regular settings.

Go to System > Notifications > Additional settings, then uncheck all the boxes. And there ya go! (✿◠‿◠)ﾉ u are done.

As a bonus, run Chris Titus Tech's debloat tool on it.

He wanted a concrete plan with OPEN ACCOUNTING so everyone could see where the money went.

But not only did they admit that it would only be enough for a year, probably less actually. They pretty much said very clearly that it would have to be recurring payments. This on top of the fact that they said that there would be no public budget. And they would not allow an audit unless it was them auditing themselves.

This sentimentality that leftists have of if it's a public organization and they pretend to do good things they are good with no exceptions. It's wild to me. So let me get this right. You will take an organization or a political group, they will openly tell you to your face that it is not your business what they do with the money that you give them. And they will even go so far as to tell you you are not allowed to investigate them because the things that are bad don't happen because they're bad. You then take their word for it. This is what stupidity looks like. Because yes if you're a leftist you're an idiot. If you worship the left so hard that you take people's word for it when they tell you that no we won't do an audit. When they try to pass laws to prevent audits from happening. Or when they openly tell you that you're not going to be able to look at the inner workings of what's going on. Then they expect you to just give them money over and over with no expectation for success?

This is what the catechism says about perfect (contrition of charity) and imperfect (contrition of fear) contrition. So it's not just "God I love you, I'm sorry." It's "God I love you above all else and I am sorry only because of my love for you, not because I'm afraid of hell or anything else."

also the fear of punishment that motivates imperfect contrition need not be entirely absent for perfect contrition to be met, it just needs to be subordinate to the primary motivation (love of God)

I would also say that you are reading into the text something that is not there. The Catechism does not say anything about other motivations being absent, it just says perfect contrition arises from charity. You’re feeling that it precludes these other things is not found in the text. As to a source that says the opposite, Fr. John Hardon’s Modern Catholic Dictionary definition of Perfect Contrition:

Sorrow for sin arising from perfect love. In perfect contrition the sinner detests sin more than any other evil, because it offends God, who is supremely good and deserving of all human love. Its motive is founded on God's own personal goodness and not merely his goodness to the sinner or to humanity. This motive, not the intensity of the act and less still the feelings experienced, is what essentially constitutes perfect sorrow. A perfect love of God, which motivates perfect contrition, does not necessarily exclude attachment to venial sin. Venial sin conflicts with a high degree of perfect love of God, but not with the substance of that love. Moreover, in the act of perfect contrition other motives can coexist with the perfect love required. There can be fear or gratitude, or even lesser motives such as self-respect and self-interest, along with the dominant reason for sorrow, which is love for God. Perfect contrition removes the guilt and eternal punishment due to grave sin, even before sacramental absolution. However, a Catholic is obliged to confess his or her grave sins at the earliest opportunity and may not, in normal circumstances, receive Communion before he or she has been absolved by a priest in the sacrament of penance.

Fr. Hardon was one of the writers of the Catechism and wrote multiple catechisms previously which served as a basis for the CCC. He is one of the most important people to contribute to the Pope Saint John Paul II’s project.

Now as to your tags. The Act of Contrition is supposed to be both suitable for the fulfillment of the sacrament and have the capacity to afford perfect contrition. That’s why those prayers exist, not merely as a part of the sacrament but as something one can pray outside of the sacrament for the attainment of perfect contrition. Not that it necessarily always confers that grace but that it has the potency to do so. From Fr. Quirijnen, S.J.’s Perfect Contrition:

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

The 21st century left brainwashes its adherents into enthusiastically becoming the most inhuman, unreasonable and callous monsters in our society, all while telling them this makes them the most kind and empathetic.

One of the notes under my post

Ah, the bourgeois concepts of * checks notes* 🤔having the right to life, freedom and security of person,to not be tortured,executed or arbitrarily arrested, freedom of religion.....