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I’ve seen less on the Windows 10 Pro version (switched off all datasending features on install).
Enjoy having them silently re-enabled on the next update. Enterprise is the only version where you can actually disable and it'll stay disabled, because most regulated corps would consider "telemetry" a data breach.
Things like these is why most Mac converts never want to return to Windows. Not just the issue in TFA/post, which may seem trivial, but the overall “telemetry” debacle and experiences like jtdev’s comment. For all their claims of having reformed, Microsoft will always be that ex you don’t want to do anything with ever again. There are worse horrors than the lack of a physical Escape key, waiting on the other side of…
This sounds like a false dichotomy. There are, of course, other and cheaper ways of getting out of using Windows than buying an Apple computer.
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Have you used windows 10 recently? I didn't realize how bad it was until I installed a fresh copy of windows 10. My backup windows machine has so many registry patches to disable the crapware that I didn't recall how bad it truly is by default.
Ads in the start menu and on the lock screen are apparently perfectly normal to end users now. It's honestly just sad.
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Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
Linux machines are fantastic if you don't need to use commercial software for things like graphics, as many web-focused developers do.
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Linux machines are fantastic if you don't need to use commercial software for things like graphics, as many web-focused developers do.
Just wanted to throw out a plug for photopea.com .. discovered it recently and it handles everything that I, as a programmer ever needed from Photoshop.
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I've seen IE launch itself at times after a reboot. When the OS updates & reboots, a lot of apps take this opportunity to update themselves, or maybe its the default behavior on system boot, who knows. After the update they decide to send you to their website - but they fuck up the API call and so IE just shows the default homepage.
But why IE? Why not Edge? IE hasn't been the default browser for years. And iirc Edge shows some shitty news feed "new tab" screen (without ads). It's still crap, but less crap than msn.com :-)
IE does not start up automatically.
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Perhaps we should all keep and maintain a Linux machine in the event that Apple and Microsoft both decide to screw us over.
Linux machines are fantastic if you don't need to use commercial software for things like graphics, as many web-focused developers do.
I'm just trying to detangle the type of graphics being mentioned. I do wish Nvidia drivers were better, but maybe that'll happen with ROCs coming out soon.
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Honest question and I am absolutely not starting an argument, but what have they done for Github? All I'm aware of is making private repos free, but I haven't seen anything beyond that. I must be out of the loop.
I have no idea how much they had to do with Github’s recent developments, but: - Github Sponsors with donation matching for some limited time period - Github Pro which based on browsing user profiles a surprising amount of folks have bought into - Github Package Repositories. - Github Pipelines. Generally I have been waiting for Github to start sucking but it has only gotten better imo. I have been a pretty big Gitla…
Not a statement either way, but AFAIK everyone who has the Student Pack[1] gets the PRO badge. I have it and I haven't spent a penny on GitHub (though my employer has).
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every day on my laptop and my desktop pc. all runing without disabling the telemetry. laptop has 5hrs of battery daily, pc is runing fine. Except when i open chrome... chrome eats my ram
I meant no disrespect, I'm/was curious to know about your experience with windows. Personally I use linux distros 95% of the time and notice a significant increase in battery life and decrease in ram/cpu utilization compared to when using windows on the same system. ~8Gb (or more) vs 2.4Gb for the ram and 80% cpu utilization vs 10-15%. I'm curious how much of that difference is the background processes installing can…
The reasoning boils down to power management, but using linux cuts an hour or two off my laptop's battery life.