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.

[-] Krtek@feddit.de 5 points 1 month ago

Oh they are when they first set up Windows

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[-] trainden@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 month ago

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

[-] odium@programming.dev 46 points 1 month ago

High background resource usage.

[-] trainden@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

Ah, the light blue between the 2 lines is background usage? I wouldn't know, I use Arch btw :3

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] odium@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 month ago

Distro slut! /s

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Stop distro shaming.

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 23 points 1 month ago

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

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 13 points 1 month ago

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

[-] ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org 5 points 1 month ago

Why not something else free? Geany, etc.?

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 9 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] efstajas@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

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

[-] John@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago

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

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] thirteene@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Do you understand windows update is changing settings to defaults right? They are overriding user configured settings on this toggle. That is malware

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[-] Moshpirit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Why the damage?

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[-] 5PACEBAR@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Windows malware" increasingly sounds like pleonasm

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[-] pipows 12 points 1 month ago

To be fair, the access is authorized

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 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.

[-] AutumnSpark1226 13 points 1 month ago

Authorized by not denying...

[-] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Yes.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 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.