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How the fuck can this be legal? I really wish the US would stop coddling these disgusting megacorps and would actually bring out some guillotines instead. M$ still existing is a complete farce and mockery.
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I was with you right up until you said you didn't like Windows Defender sending a file to Microsoft. I want my file system to have metadata that (along with things like name, last edited, checksum, etc...) puts all files into one of three buckets: 1. Pre-installed 2. User generated 3. External sources (e.g. Downloaded, transferred from network, transferred from device) If a file from an external source becomes execut…
> If a file from an external source becomes executable then starts affecting my pre-installed/user-generated files and it's checksum isn't already on microsoft's whitelist, then I want microsoft to quarantine that executable and look inside it to figure out what the heck it's doing to my computer. Yes, but I want an audit log of it all. I doubt they'll ever add this, so I'm not going to blindly trust Microsoft. In my…
Again, they're not uploading all files, they're only uploading suspicious executables, which by their very nature of needing to be fully loaded before they can be executed tend to be fairly small.
> Yes, but I want an audit log of it all. I doubt they'll ever add this [...]
Microsoft already has audit logs to the point where you can even see who's trying to turn off microsoft defender in your organisation and on which devices.
Just remember, they're catering to big businesses who are actually getting attacked on the regular, and big businesses need crazy levels of auditing.
They're going to have more than you can handle.
> so I'm not going to blindly trust Microsoft.
All security is based on trust and nothing about what you've said so far is specific to Microsoft.
So, why not microsoft?
Just like Microsoft told congress that Internet Explorer couldn’t be uninstalled from Windows 98, even though it didn’t come preinstalled with Windows 95.
* Although it was changed before windows 98 with "Plus 95!"
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> Look up the CVE stats by OS 2024: https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php?year=2024 9 of 10 are Windows branded operating systems. 3,276 across all of these platforms. Of these, over 1,000 are different versions of Windows 10. Compared to 1799 on the Linux kernel, which is actively developed and will be actively developed for the foreseeable future. Are you arguing that Windows doesn't continuously get CVE e…
I'm saying that the newer the version, the more CVEs it has. Of these, over 1,000 are different versions of Windows 10 Precisely. Windows 11 will be worse. Of course this doesn't exclude bogus/trivial ones, since CVE-chasing is a thing now, but how many were found in older versions? ...and no surprise that I'm being downvoted by the corporate-authoritarian shills for speaking against the narrative. Yet it should be c…
Glad I am not the only one who has observed this. That Python int to str conversion “denial of service” CVE from a few years back was a complete joke.
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I set up a local only Windows 11 machine recently. 1. Install with throwaway Microsoft account 2. Create new local admin account 3. Use local admin account to delete setup account Not ideal, but not difficult either.
You can still install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account. It requires configuring the installation before you boot from the USB stick. I use https://rufus.ie/en/ when creating bootable USB sticks, and it turns out that this tool detects when you're trying to create a Windows installation medium, and prompts with a list of useful customizations, including "Remove requirement for online Microsoft account". (if you…
However, as I mentioned below, I read something recently that says local account options are being removed in an upcoming version (I can't find the article now).
I presume it means the binaries are being removed from the ISO so this may no longer work (except for Enterprise and LTSC I'd imagine).
in other words, can we fool the os to thinking that the device is not compatible? in terms of NPU compute maybe.
ps: the "free space" workaround is a hilarious approach if at all effective.
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> people staying on Win10 and below everything below 10 has been EOL for a good while now, and 10 only has a year left
No one really cares about that "EOL" crap unless they've been brainwashed by the FUD. A lot of very important software[1] still works on Vista or 7, and a large portion of that even on XP and below. Also don't forget that Win10 IoT LTSC is officially supported until 2032. [1] Not things like the latest games, but LOB applications and related software that companies rely on for their work.
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Linux + Bottles / Lutris. I wouldn't go to Win 11, and Linux actually is good enough now.
> Linux actually is good enough now. You say this like there is one Linux that people can use. Instead, it is fragmented to hell and back with various distros. Since it's a replacement for Windows, a GUI will be needed. There's more than one of those as well. So now, some one needs to go down that rabbit hole of trying to decide which distro/GUI will work for them. So a generic "use Linux" is not very helpful.
I want ice cream and approach a vendor in the park. He has brands and flavors I've never tried before so I throw up my hands and say there is too much choice, he needs to pick one single kind of ice cream before he gets my business. Somebody who behaves like this doesn't actually want ice cream in the first place but is pretending to for some reason.
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> Linux actually is good enough now. You say this like there is one Linux that people can use. Instead, it is fragmented to hell and back with various distros. Since it's a replacement for Windows, a GUI will be needed. There's more than one of those as well. So now, some one needs to go down that rabbit hole of trying to decide which distro/GUI will work for them. So a generic "use Linux" is not very helpful.
I installed Pop OS with about 10 minutes research as soon as this Recall bullshit was announced, and everything I've tried so far works fine. Having more options isn't a bad thing unless you let yourself suffer choice paralysis. You can just not do that.
Since then, Microsoft has only added evidence that my decision was a good one.