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Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by MrMan »

norman784 wrote: post #27

I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…

I use ubuntu or mint on my computers and stream on a roku. MY DAW runs on a different computing running Mac OS.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by Sentient-HN »

pmoriarty wrote: post #37
norman784 wrote: post #27

I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…

Another option to consider is FreeBSD, which can be especially attractive for those of us who want to avoid systemd.

why not just use another init system? I've had great experiences with runit, and they say s6 is good as well.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by dtx1 »

norman784 wrote: post #27

I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…

Or just pay 5$ for a VPN instead of 20$ for netflix&co and pirate everything. Suddently the OS stops mattering. What was the point of netflix blocking HQ Streams for linux users? To prevent piracy? How ironic

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by prmoustache »

jve wrote: post #16
tmdh wrote: post #3

Is there any way to block connection to these sites with DNS or something?

You don't want to block all of that. CLR checking (else your apps may become slow to start) and windows updates (else you may become vulnerable) should be enabled. Someone else has some suggestions?

If I was still using windows I would totally block everything and run a wsus server in a VM that has a vlan and firewall config.

The issue is you can only control your firewall at home. Whenever you are out you are pretty sure that MS and Apple bypass any rule you'd put on the local firewall.

I prefer running sane operating systems.

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by dijit »

agent008t wrote: post #55
norman784 wrote: post #27

I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…

Linux still has horrible font rendering, which makes web browsing uncomfortable. It doesn't come close to Windows or Mac. Fonts often appear soapy, kerning is off etc.

Linux can have crappy font rendering.

I can also have gorgeous font rendering. I would mess around with some live distros to see what you prefer.

This is how my comment looks to me (on linux): https://i.imgur.com/wvruFyX.png

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by [deleted] »

norman784 wrote: post #27

I read a lot of comments here wanting to block the connections, but wouldn’t be easier/better to switch to an OS that doesn’t spy you? The answers possibly is no, because they might use X or Y that requires them to use Windows, so a better question is, what holds you back to switch to Linux? (macOS also talks to a lot of servers and collect telemetry as Windows, maybe in a different scale, so isn’t an alternative if…

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Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by vitus »

mananaysiempre wrote: post #17

There seems to be some degree of overcounting in the reported figures: the number of “hosts” is the number of unique hostnames in the table, but the number of “IPs” is a straightforward sum of IP address counts that the table segregates by service, and I refuse to believe that ( e.g. ) the IP address of login.live.com as resolved by OneDrive is always different from same as resolved by Skype. $ curl -fsSL 'https://he…

> I refuse to believe that (e.g.) the IP address of login.live.com as resolved by OneDrive is always different from same as resolved by Skype.

I could believe that, actually. There are reasons you might want to always host different services on non-overlapping IPs -- DDoS mitigation, traffic prioritization, service isolation, limiting impact of unscrupulous ISP / government content blocks...

Re: Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)

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Post by norman784 »

sph wrote: post #48
moonchrome wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently considered installing Linux on my desktop workstation. Then I decided I wanted to buy a wireless card for the machine - and any device I saw available locally had dubious issue/debugging threads online, people unable to get it to work, BT functionality missing, etc. I've used Linux desktop in the past and it looks like things haven't changed much. I don't like the idea of having to compile kernel modules j…

There's just one brand of Wifi that's crap under linux and that's broadcom. Are you telling me you can't find an Intel wireless module anywhere? Also, if you use a modern distro instead of, say, gentoo, you don't have to compile anything yourself, there's packages and dkms available if you really have to go with broadcom. Do you not install drivers on Windows?

Indeed I bought a while ago one of those pci-e cards that comes with the same BT/wireless that Apple uses, it wasn't that hard to make it work but if it works out of the box, then better, also I think the intel wireless chips are one of the best ones out there.
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