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CassowaryTom ,

Well no shit.

RandoCalrandian ,
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What a weird way to spell "intentionally designed to track everything you do"

ichbinjasokreativ ,

I am shocked that anything regarding Microsoft and windows contains spyware.

Hirom ,

The longer part of the windows install process is not the installation. It’s removing all the pre-installed bloatware, removing or disabling all the telemetry and other undesired features that are on by default.

ichbinjasokreativ ,

The start menu entries are stored in an encrypted file somewhere beneath a thousand different folders. But its possible to copy a cleaned start menu file and paste it in the correct directory in the default user folder to give new users an ad-free start menu.

people_are_cute ,
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Just pirate LTSC.

teft ,
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Just run Linux.

Exec ,
@Exec@pawb.social avatar

If your hardware lets you

DarkDarkHouse ,
@DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Don’t buy shitty hardware.

theolodger ,

Run a distro of linux which is less resource intensive than windows?

Exec ,
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Nah, one specific hardware where its manufacturer hasn’t written a Linux driver and no one bothered to reverse engineer

loki ,

Doesn’t Edge send all urls you visit to Microsoft through browser.events.data.msn.com? Microsoft has been tracking every site you visit since the start.

V4uban ,

How surprising

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