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[+] 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    They couldn’t afford enough electricity to run it in-house so now they just run a mandated botnet to make you pay for it instead. If this isn’t a page out of a George Orwell novel, it should have been.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Windows is already occupying your hardware and network with "telemetry". I would be surprised if telemetry overhead alone was all that was needed to burden modern hardware and yet when i boot into windows those fans never shut up.

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