Bill Gates no longer works for Microsoft. He couldn’t care less about you’re data.
Let us hope he is not just data but an actual person.
No, you’re data!
That’s the part of joke
The illusion of choice
Yet I bet they will still collect many, many gigabytes
Correct, those settings are cosmetic
Chris titus has a nice tool which removes as much telemetry as possible. You can get rid of a considerable piece of telemetry in group policy editor, services and regedit.
Despite that, windows will never be as private as macos and macos will never be as private as linux.
You can’t verify how private MacOS and Windows are, besides checking the network to see if they send data to a server, as unlike Linux they are closed source.
Yep, you can get most via the network and maybe sth in logs. Linux makes this quite easy tho
Why just use Ameliorated
no, imho ameliorated cannot be recommended as it provides way too much risk as it removes almost everything. Definitely more than an open source script.
Source?
The PC Security Channel made a video comparing Windows 11 and XP with Wireshark. The telemetry settings in Windows 11 are set to minimal, you can see his response to a specific comment about it. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/IT4vDfA_4NI
He doesn’t say he has minimal telemetry, he actually says it’s a brand new laptop (from manufacturer) out of the box with nothing installed. What we are referring to above is with telemetry disabled in oobe.
If you see a specific comment, he responds that he set everything that he could off. What I think this means is he set it off the first time the laptop turned on, since (I’m guessing) the same screen as above appeared when he turned the laptop on for the first time
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/IT4vDfA_4NI
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Where linux tho
On the USB stick
Every year that passes makes me happier I switched to Linux only instead of dual booting. Happy Debian user here.
Click, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, tab, space
This is why I make students install a copy of Windows without the use of a mouse.
Mr.Gates is not in Microsoft for years, but yes
Surprised there wasn’t a conspiratorial reference to covid testing in the meme tbh
Switched to Linux… got tired of them changing the settings for me with updates.
Might have been one of the best decisions of your life!
I just bought a used laptop that came with windows 11. After all of this data collection crap it started blue screening after I installed the first set of updates.
Pop Os has been running flawlessly.
I’m using NTLite for the last two years to make “custom Windows” that gets rid of much of these data-grabbing s**t. I recommend people here to try it.
You have tons of features like disabling default shit like teams, photos, the much-hated media player, default apps etc. And enable local account creation without resorting to Shift+F10 to CMD and typing the bypass command there.
It also cuts off the other versions of Windows 11 that you don’t want in the boot media. I recommend this software over others because you only need to customize it once before you install the OS. Here
Yeah nah… I think I’d rather take a FOSS mod tool. Or, you know, stay in Linux at much as i can, as of now.
Welcome to “windows as a service”. At this point Windows is basically like a freemium app.
Yes, except the free part
Wait, you’re paying for Windows?
Part of the price when you buy a computer.
You guys should try making your install media using Rufus
rufus, woeusb, ventoy all work most of the time
i really like ventoy, but when i tried to install fedora a few months ago it wouldn’t work for some reason. I switched back to just flashing one iso at a time now through the recommended way since i usually don’t need more than one iso anyway.
On linux dd is always an option
Yeah that’s what i use mostly now
I recently created win11 install media with rufus and I was amazed with what it can do. Makes the whole install a breeze since you don’t need to turn off the telemetry and log in to M$ account. All around plesant experience
i don’t care enough, waiting for critical mass
Our internal documentation for setting up a windows VM literally says “Press ‘maybe later’ for the next 9 screens”
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