Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows. I am posting just to help anybody that doesn’t know. This is like a creepy wire tap. If you are actually using Windows 11, make sure to disable and or reduce telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy). If that actually helps, I am sure there are more ways they send data back but the video link is a simple how to for the telemetry. Here is more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtg_s1GQiMU

  • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7·
    40 minutes ago

    Windows deleted all my files that weren’t even in one drive this week when one drive had a melt down and killed itself. I stared in disbelief, thanked the heavens I just backed all that shit up recently, laughed, and installed Linux. Didn’t even bother to see if I could recover anything. I’ve been meaning to switch for a long time and just haven’t. Windows made it pretty fucking easy.

  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
    6·
    1 hour ago

    I have location services turned off in windows on my work computer and MS word really dislikes it. Whenever I do a side by side window with word included I get a notification (from word) that I should enable my location services in settings

  • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    3 hours ago

    Popped a windows 11 laptop behind a firewall for toubleshooting, it logs all traffic that leaves that subnet.

    Instantly flooded my logs with all kinds of bullshit.

    • TheDeadInternet@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I bailed as soon as they introduced recall.

      Haven’t used it Sense and it’s amazing how much freedom and no bloat you have and never realized it.

    • Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.worldOP
      161·
      4 hours ago

      It is so bad now, with all the ads and background services sucking up your RAM. I don’t think you can even use Windows 11 properly with 8GB of RAM.

      • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        38 minutes ago

        Dude I was playing Grounded (the original not the second) last week and my computer was so hot it was insane. I used to play that on my 6 year old laptop with no issues 3 year old gaming desktop shouldn’t struggle. In fact about a year ago it didn’t struggle. At all. Windows is just garbage.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I know for a fact you can run Windows 11 on 8GB of RAM. I just helped a friend install some software on his 8GB laptop. Now, did I spend five hours uninstalling so many things and snipping Windows down to size? Maybe. But it ran

          • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
            1·
            51 minutes ago

            If my network connection goes down, I have difficulty using Windows with 64GB RAM.

            Why on earth does losing your network connection make the OS unusable? Like, locks up the mouse and can’t use the keyboard unusable?

  • KssioAug@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    81·
    4 hours ago

    I only use Win11 as a remote game server to play games with Moonlight/Sunshine without worrying about compatibility issues. To work and daily usage, it’s Linux all the way.

    Just a matter of time until I transition 100% to Linux though. In the meantime I run WinUtil every once in a while to make sure to disable most of that shit.