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 3 weeks ago

Oh they are when they first set up Windows

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago

High background resource usage.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Distro slut! /s

[-] dustyData 10 points 3 weeks ago

Stop distro shaming.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

how do you manage your system setup?

btw, moving from arch to pop is strange, you're supposed to go Gentoo or NixOS or LFS...

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

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 3 weeks ago

Why not something else free? Geany, etc.?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

university students ?

[-] efstajas 20 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] sebinspace 8 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] Moshpirit 18 points 3 weeks ago

Why the damage?

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[-] 5PACEBAR 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"Windows malware" increasingly sounds like pleonasm

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, the access is authorized

[-] rtxn 50 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Authorized by not denying...

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yes.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks 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.