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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] TheRedSpade 66 points 1 month ago

Grab 'em by the kernel.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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] 7 points 1 month ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Literally yes

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Oh they are when they first set up Windows

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

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

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

High background resource usage.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] dustyData 10 points 1 month ago

Stop distro shaming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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

Why not something else free? Geany, etc.?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

university students ?

[–] efstajas 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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

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

[–] sebinspace 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Moshpirit 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] 5PACEBAR 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

"Windows malware" increasingly sounds like pleonasm

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

To be fair, the access is authorized

[–] rtxn 50 points 1 month ago (18 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Authorized by not denying...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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