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Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Mine is simple: I'm used to it and my favorite games I play only run on linux with specific modifications that I have no time to figure out on a system I am unfamiliar with.

Time is the constraint. As a teen I would have simply taken the time to figure it all out.

Now as a family dad with very limited time I simply need something that works for me instantly out of the box with functionality that is at least familiar. Not just for the OS but any software on it.

[–] TiredTiger@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bazzite is pretty good for gaming. Most things I've thrown at it have "just worked". The games that tend not to run on Linux are live-service games requiring kernel-level anti-cheat. I don't play any of those, so it's not an issue to me, but I know it is a deal breaker for some. I had one game that required me to use a different version of Proton than the one that came pre-installed, and that was as simple as installing the flatpak for it, then selecting it in the game's configuration menu in Steam.

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Mine are star citizen and path of exile 2

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago

Those have KLA?

[–] lemonwood@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you really need those games?

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Is this a joke, sarcasm or the dumbest sincere question I have read this year?