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Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows. I am posting just to help anybody that doesn't know. This is like a creepy wire tap. If you are actually using Windows 11, make sure to disable and or reduce telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy). If that actually helps, I am sure there are more ways they send data back but the video link is a simple how to for the telemetry. Here is more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtg_s1GQiMU

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[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had difficulty understanding the error messages, mainly. "Warning: this xibstop is a fleng. Do you want to flargle you shmoigen at 0000HgvbXX44? This cannot be undone"

Of course, I couldn't actually google what it meant without running into a whole load of other terminology I didn't understand, least of all because my WiFi hadn't kicked in yet.

Basically, you need to put the work in to understand the context of what's going on. With Windows, this took me about a year when I first got a PC. I imagine it'll be the same with Linux.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yea, a basic understanding of the machine's components and their function is usually expected.
Windows takes you firmly by the hand, expects you to be a good user and do as you're told, whereas Linux expects you to take control and be in charge, with all the decisions that entails.
That's kind of the most fundamental difference.