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Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
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Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#132Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…
I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. So far I can assure you: Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. There're no noticeable differences compared to Windows 7. You seem to be more driven by your hatred towards Microsoft than by real privacy concerns.
>>I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities.
That's great. And what have you done about Microsoft not telling you what is inside each Windows Update?
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. So far I can assure you: Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. There're no noticeable differences compared to Windows 7. You seem to be more driven by your hatred towards Microsoft than by real privacy concerns.
Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust. Google started en…
> Hatred for Microsoft? I have none.
When you post "M$" in a reply I automatically mark you as rabidly anti-Microsoft and usually stop reading. I'm not a fan of Microsoft, but childish acts such as those have no place in a rational discussion.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hatred for Microsoft? I have none. I do hate the fact that we have an absolutely free operating system that works just fine but thanks to Bill Gates 90s shenanigans and aggressive and illegal market and business tactics we're stuck with a proprietary system that is totally unnecessary and as it continues that system becomes more and more invasive. And that system is a black box that you can't trust. Google started en…
Nothing about Linux on the desktop "works fine". It's horrible. UI seems to be one area that benefits--almost demands --a central planning authority. I'm reminded of Supported Features [1]. There is some great open source software out there. But I'm struggling to think of great open source software with a good UI. Not that I'm saying Windows is good mind you. My personal preference would be OSX, which you can view as…
I've been working 4 years on Ubuntu Linux now and I'm very happy about it. My life is much easier and I don't loose time fighting with my system.
I have a Win7 partition that I boot now and then when I must use software that can't be virtualized well enough.
In 4 years I've never lost work and I had only two crashes after messing with my GPU settings.
If only the biggest proprietary software we available on linux (Looking at you Adobe), I would never go back.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
> That seems perfectly reasonable No that's not , and what is shocking is that you find it "perfectly reasonable".
That's literally a bog-standard privacy policy clause. You can find the essentially same four points on everything from Ubuntu to Wikimedia. Can you be more specific about which part of it you find particularly unreasonable? Can you explain how the claims that the privacy policy allows MS to share data with the MPAA are founded?
"Comply with legal process": i.e. if they are subpoena'd for this information.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#136Basically M$ adoption of this strategy is the death knell for any semblance of privacy on the PC. It's amazing how far we have come to accepting such draconian measures in order to further marketing. There is still time people, come on over to Linux, the privacy here is still fine and will continue to be fine. And if you come over, then all the desktop software makers will port their software to Linux and all the col…
"port their software to Linux". The main issue there is that there is not one single linux, the market is very fragmented. Getting the binary format right (which is the same across distros) is the trivial part, just set the proper compiler backend. The hard part would be getting all dependencies and especially IO sorted out. The wide range of display managers, audio drivers that needs to be supported to simply "port…
At work all our desktop software was ported to linux and it works fine. Linux web servers, of course, mostly. Well there are some non linux web applications and numerous embedded devices with web access.
All I run natively is MS office stuff, chrome/ff, and vpn/vnc/ssh remote access type stuff. I have a linux desktop box on my desk running all the remote stuff plus native emacs that I use for most real work, the little old MS box is just for opening Excel sheets and legacy Word docs occasionally.
Its been a long time since I've run a non-MS (and non-chrome non-FF) binary on a MS desktop at work. Many years at least. The future is the web not native apps. IT will no longer deploy native client apps as a policy, so its not like any are officially ever coming back.
Decades ago its amusing to recall how much work IT folks had to do to install dozens of 3rd party applications on desktops before we'd get to use them. We had multipage checkbox forms. Now its "office, FF and chrome" and some corporate secret sauce (corporate anti-virus whatever type stuff) and they're done. A more draconian employer would just install office and force minions to use MSIE. And google docs and competitors are taking over all non-corporate "productivity app" work. With web access and outlook web mail and free viewers, technically most worker drones don't need anything more than a MSIE bootloader, although its more humane to let people use FF / Chrome.
For most employees, if it boots and runs FF or chrome, that's all they use to earn their pay, so no difference if MS, linux, freebsd, or mac.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#137Next version of Windows will let you spoof the OS, because of all the backlash :P
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. So far I can assure you: Compared to my Android phone Windows 10 is absolutely mute. There're no noticeable differences compared to Windows 7. You seem to be more driven by your hatred towards Microsoft than by real privacy concerns.
You you provide us with a powershell script or app that you used to disable all the call home stuff? It would be nice to have it all in one place. FWIW, https://fix10.isleaked.com/ is what I've been going off of so far
I think he just meant the stuff which can be deactivated from the standard privacy settings.
At least, this is the same what I did (standard privacy settings and monitoring my network with Glasswire) and I have the same experience.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but Windows stopped being my primary operating system ever since that whole Snowden scandal. Snowden released nothing specifically about Windows. No backdoors, no specific cooperation, only the NSA's bespoke malware (but they also have malware for everything under the sun, Linux, uEFI, RAID firmware, cell modems, etc). Sure, the NSA were spying on Microsoft by hooking the fiber lines between Microsoft's data center…
Microsoft was an early adopter of PRISM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg > same thing to Google So what? The claim was about not using Microsoft's products.
OP's point is that the whole Snowden thing was about datacenters, which happened to all biggest players so not using Windows is not going to mitigate that fact.
Re: Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
#140The genie is out of the bottle. It's not just the NSA that wants your data - it's everybody!