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I wonder what MS employees think when every week a new tool pops up disabling data mining in their OS.
I'm guessing "lol you think the data mining is actually disabled now, Mr. Smith of St. Louis SSN 291-52-xxxx, who prefers to have taco night on wednesdays, and does most of his online shopping sunday mornings."
Microsoft probably just bought that info from my Android location history.
I seriously doubt that Windows 10 is doing anything so grave as to require you to run some arbitrary PowerShell script you found on the Internet with elevated privileges. If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it.
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"Everything just works" should be interpreted as an asynchronous piece of code, because there are no guarantees that everything will work "today".
Desktop Linux is eventually consistent?
http://askubuntu.com/questions/752743/ubuntu-16-04-skylake-6...
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I did just that, cannot reproduce. Did you actually try this or is this based on one of those articles about the open beta of Windows 10 that had a lot more telemetry you couldn't disable?
I'll be the devil's advocate this time. As you can see in gpedit, Cortana and Web Search is disabled. Why does explorer.exe need to access akamai or search.msn? http://imgur.com/a/yiIxn
Instead: Click Search, Hamburger Menu, Settings, Uncheck "Search Online and Include Web Results."
If you have OneDrive installed Explorer keeps a constant connection to Microsoft's servers to populate your OneDrive folders into the navigation pane.
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Some of us don't want any telemetry, or any crap. An idle OS should be idle...
Then get Debian or Fedora. I'm serious, if the OS is doing things so bad you're willing to execute untrusted code with elevated privileges to modify the OS, you've already lost.
I do agree that people executing this script should not only rely on "it's open source, so smart people will look at it and find issues", but actually research and fully understand what is going on.
I seriously doubt that Windows 10 is doing anything so grave as to require you to run some arbitrary PowerShell script you found on the Internet with elevated privileges. If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it.
I had been a long time Windows user, at home (W10) and work(7/Server/Datacenter). Windows had been getting just more and more intrusive like a malware since the last couple years. I hope they do something to stop that. I have recently moved to Fedora and it is just awesome. Pretty much everything works like amazing. Its not a complete replacement if you are gaming, nvidia drivers are a bit painful to install but ever…
"Everything just works" so long as your expectations around "everything" are essentially set by a desktop computer experience designed in 2005. Linux on desktops is fine (except from a physical security standpoint), but primitive in terms of UX. And it's still dependent on Mozilla or Google for its browsing experience. And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of p…
I think that's where this sentiment often comes from: people who cut their teeth on XF86Config tweaking and compiling NVidia kernel modules from source and shopping for just the right PCMCIA wireless adapter are now amazed when a fresh Ubuntu install has working 3D-accelerated graphics, 802.11n (with GUI for configuration), Bluetooth, etc. (And yes, we have Freedesktop.org/systemd/NetworkManager and friends to thank for a lot of this.)
Maybe the bar was just really low, and you've got a strong argument if you say it shouldn't be anymore, but we are making progress...
I seriously doubt that Windows 10 is doing anything so grave as to require you to run some arbitrary PowerShell script you found on the Internet with elevated privileges. If you do not understand every single command in this thing, you should avoid it, and if you understand every single command in this, you don't need it.