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

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      And they even top the contributions chart!

      Gotta love them for all they do for us, but man… they sure hate their users 🤣

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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

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            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?