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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 130 points 5 months ago (3 children)

when you're the OS, they let you do it. you can do anything.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago

Grab 'em by the kernel.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

When you know for sure a statement (or reality) makes it impossible for something to gain mass-market adoption

Thennnnn comes the general public

NSFW transcript of (the only) twice-impeached US president

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Literally yes

This was pretty informative and shocking.

And then Chris Titus made this video

They literally record everything you do, at least if it is a "Copilot plus" PC with a "neural engine".

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (4 children)

For people who say you should read the contract before agreeing to it. What about the hundreds of thousands? No, millions of people buying new windows laptops every year. Are they presented with any kind of agreement? I don't think so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Oh they are when they first set up Windows

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm missing something, but what is the damage in this screenshot?

[–] odium 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

High background resource usage.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Ah, the light blue between the 2 lines is background usage? I wouldn't know, I use Arch btw :3

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Thanks for asking. I'm using Debian and didn't know either. :p

[–] odium 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I too have used arch btw. Currently using pop (deb) tho. I hop around from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Stop distro shaming.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

nah i don't care that you're using windows who the fuck still uses eclipse

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Eclipse is Free Software and as such it is valuable even if better commercial options exist.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#EPL2

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why not something else free? Geany, etc.?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I personally don't use a full IDE, but KDE's Kate.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Pretty funny how it says "Unauthorized access" right below screenshots of features clearly being enabled.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But in the end of the day, there is no intended way to turn off Telemetry fully.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Could airgap it, but then you’ve airgapped it..

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Do you understand windows update is changing settings to defaults right? They are overriding user configured settings on this toggle. That is malware

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

"Windows malware" increasingly sounds like pleonasm

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

To be fair, the access is authorized

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (18 children)

Authorized without consent. That is what Louis Rossmann calls a rapist mentality.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I agree with that dude’s takes but he rubs me the wrong way.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

"Authorized" in the sense that even if I set all these options to No, a future Windows update will reset them and not tell me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Authorized by not denying...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago
[–] Zink 6 points 5 months ago

This stuff affects the user experience too. I’ve been able to daily drive Linux at work for a few weeks now. Restarting and booting into windows, after being used to Linux on the same hardware, makes windows feel like the slow, cobbled together OS that you can get for free.

I mean, we’re a Microsoft 365 company like many others, but even things like Teams and Outlook feel more responsive in Firefox in Linux than in the native apps on windows. Even video conferencing works great.

This difference isn’t exactly new to me, and I’ve used Unix or Linux sporadically over the past couple decades. However, using it as my main work OS has really highlighted the differences. Hell, even the multi-monitor support is better!

And this is with Mint Cinnamon installed, not some cutting edge or lean & fast distro.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

ITT: Libertarians advocating for corpos with rapist mentality calling it "consent".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Sir, this is a Linux memes community

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It is getting into the final form, after decades of progressive enmalwaretyfication

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