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I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended.

Creepy behavior

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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At this point for me, trying to get games working on Linux has become easier than trying to get telemetry to stop working on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And since Ive never bought the problematic games before it's so much easier for me.

I'd encourage anyone to ditch the crappy anticheat broken crap and just go back to playing good high quality games.

[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🙄 there are plenty of great games with anti cheat.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah and they all work on Linux.

The ones that don't can get fucked.

[–] kevinbacon 6 points 1 year ago
[–] theangryseal 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I game on Linux every day.

I wish multiplayer worked across the board but it’s whatever. I don’t have time for it any way haha.

[–] kurwa 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What multiplayer doesn't work? Do you mean because of EAC not working or something?

[–] theangryseal 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. I’d like to play the older call of duty games when I hook it up on my dock. I’ve thought about dual booting, but the work, man. Maybe I’ll get my daughter to do it one day. She’s still tech excited. The world hasn’t burned her out yet. :p

[–] MJBrune 1 points 1 year ago

If you have a wireless Xbox controller it becomes far harder. Xone is what I want to use but then I have xow, xbdrvr and a bunch of other things to deal with. Or if I want to actually use my Nvidia video card to it's fullest ability, well good luck.

Linux is awesome but has a bit to go for me. Although it's been that was since it stopped being my daily driver in 2014.