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    [–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yet I bet they will still collect many, many gigabytes

    [–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Correct, those settings are cosmetic

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Chris titus has a nice tool which removes as much telemetry as possible. You can get rid of a considerable piece of telemetry in group policy editor, services and regedit.

    Despite that, windows will never be as private as macos and macos will never be as private as linux.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You can't verify how private MacOS and Windows are, besides checking the network to see if they send data to a server, as unlike Linux they are closed source.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    Yep, you can get most via the network and maybe sth in logs. Linux makes this quite easy tho

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Click, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, space, Tab, tab, space

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    This is why I make students install a copy of Windows without the use of a mouse.

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Mr.Gates is not in Microsoft for years, but yes

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

    Surprised there wasn't a conspiratorial reference to covid testing in the meme tbh

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Switched to Linux... got tired of them changing the settings for me with updates.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    Might have been one of the best decisions of your life!

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

    The illusion of choice

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Bill Gates no longer works for Microsoft. He couldn't care less about you're data.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

    No, you're data!

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    Let us hope he is not just data but an actual person.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's the part of joke

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Welcome to “windows as a service”. At this point Windows is basically like a freemium app.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Wait, you're paying for Windows?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    Part of the price when you buy a computer.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

    I just bought a used laptop that came with windows 11. After all of this data collection crap it started blue screening after I installed the first set of updates.

    Pop Os has been running flawlessly.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Slipstreamed windows is the only way. Skip all this bullshit and pre-remove all the bloatware fuckery too. Highly recommend if you are installing windows regularly: https://techcult.com/how-to-slipstream-windows-10-installation/

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    OOSU10 is also helpful if you don't wanna mess with install media.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

    Our internal documentation for setting up a windows VM literally says "Press 'maybe later' for the next 9 screens"

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    Every year that passes makes me happier I switched to Linux only instead of dual booting. Happy Debian user here.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    On the USB stick

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    Spoiler alert, when you hit accept all tabs go back to "on".

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You guys should try making your install media using Rufus

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    I recently created win11 install media with rufus and I was amazed with what it can do. Makes the whole install a breeze since you don't need to turn off the telemetry and log in to M$ account. All around plesant experience

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    When entering security questions:

    down arrow tab keyboardspamkeyboardspamkeyboardspam enter

    down arrow tab keyboardspamkeyboardspamkeyboardspam enter

    down arrow tab keyboardspamkeyboardspamkeyboardspam enter

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I'm using NTLite for the last two years to make "custom Windows" that gets rid of much of these data-grabbing s**t. I recommend people here to try it.

    You have tons of features like disabling default shit like teams, photos, the much-hated media player, default apps etc. And enable local account creation without resorting to Shift+F10 to CMD and typing the bypass command there.

    It also cuts off the other versions of Windows 11 that you don't want in the boot media. I recommend this software over others because you only need to customize it once before you install the OS. Here

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    Yeah nah... I think I'd rather take a FOSS mod tool. Or, you know, stay in Linux at much as i can, as of now.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    To be honest, I'd forgotten that "installing windows" was a thing

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I LITERALLY do this every single day at work

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If this is is actually your job you should look into automating it, you can configure it once and have it auto install with the same settings each time

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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Does it required a microsoft account now? Or can we still install it without connected to the internet

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah but I turn on airplane mode and it doesn't need an account anymore. Lpt for those of you out there.

    Actually, better tip, use Linux.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I think it's still technically possible with some workaround but they indeed kind of killed offline accounts with Windows 11

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It’s not hard at all, when making an account one of the options is to make it offline/local only. Sure it’s a small link below the big buttons but it’s there and not hidden.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I reinstalled Win11 last month and I think they removed that feature. now you have to Shift+F10 and type the bypass command in CMD.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Yeah, but you can create local account.

    With the installing media running:

    Shift+F10 (opens cmd) > OOBE\BYPASSNRO

    • Continue until getting to creating account

    ◦◦ Account > [email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected]

    ◦◦ Password > *enter any random password*

    • […] > How would you like to set up this device > Set up for work or school

    With an existing system:

    • CMD > net user /add <username> *

    E: Wording.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    i don't care enough, waiting for critical mass

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Hey Microsoft , how about https://youtube.com/watch?v=cMTAUr3Nm6I

    You need to let it go!

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