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Sending telemetry data at all without real consent (ie not some ultimatum) is scary. Windows is not a daily driver OS.
Software isn't immutable. The code that makes these requests has to physically exist somewhere. Which means you can find it and overwrite it with nop's.
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you misunderstood the reference: "this" was meant to mean the recommendation in the parent post. I edited my post to be clearer. concerning the intentional breaking of the windows updater and then using a third party update tool: such workarounds don't make the recommendation less bad. The question is: why break the onboard updater in the first place? And all those other features? Sure you have an alternative to offi…
Because none of those features are irreplaceable and/or crucial to run a perfectly fine workstation.
> if you want to replace everything because microsoft is bad and can't be trusted, then start by replacing the kernel.
Unless Windows kernel phones home over some covert physical channel which is undetectable by tools like Wireshark running on a separate gateway (and secretly supported by all routers in existence), there's absolutely zero need to replace the kernel when all said phoning home can be stopped with a properly configured firewall.
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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.
Is it really as bad as you make it out to be? I've got everything at home: old non-retina MacBook Airs running OS X, a M1/retina MacBook Air running OS X, Windows (well, wife's computer) and then Linux laptops and desktops. Fonts on my main Linux "workstation" may not be as perfect as on the M1 Mac I use from the couch but it's because my 38" monitor ain't retina and it's a far cry from making "browsing uncomfortable…
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Unfortunately running your own DNS isn't an option in every context. Not to mention, 3MB is nothing, it shouldn't struggle with that.
Is blocking on a DNS level even sufficient? I'd imagine there are hard coded fall back IPs involved at least sometimes.
I wish to see this also for macOS, iOS and Android.
Aside from fsflovers link; there's a fantastic (paid) firewall software called littlesnitch. You can use it to watch every process send network traffic, you can even collect samples of the traffic and plot it on a map: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html (not affiliated, just a happy customer; it's one of the few things I like the mac ecosystem for.. there's attempts to port it to linux with https:/…
That happens whether or not you are logged into icloud/facetime/messages at the same time, or not.
Anyone aware of a way to figure out what nsurlesssiond is downloading/uploading in the background?
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.
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…
Sure, as soon as an operating system with a good Win32/DirectX/Windows HAL implementation appears, I will be the first one to switch. ReactOS perhaps?
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Yes retina display is 2x. But saying a display is 4k doesn't tell anything about its pixel density or scaling. I look at the original commenters screenshot at 50% browser scaling but it's still blurry. I guess there is an element of image compression there. On the other hand; from my own experience (I own linux, macos and windows pcs) on the same display Macos text rendering is much more sharper and pleasant to look…
> Yes retina display is 2x. But saying a display is 4k doesn't tell anything about its pixel density or scaling. I mean with fractional scaling where 1 But more to the point you can't easily display those screenshots with different fractional scaling without pixel grid misalignment. > On the other hand; from my own experience (I own linux, macos and windows pcs) on the same display Macos text rendering is much more s…
That depends on the physical display size and viewing distance.
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The kerning on your screenshot is very chunky. In particular look at the kerning on the lower case r’s in your screenshot. The r is given way too much horizontal space particularly to it’s right, especially so in the word “crappy”.
I think it’s a monospace font, which makes the keming look bad