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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 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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.

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So which one is the trouble? Windows or Hardware? If its windows, well maybe get rid of the problem first. Microsoft is actively hostile to your plans.

If its hardware, that can be tricky, but it sure seems infrequent these days.

Refined is probably the best method of dealing with windows. Give windows and linux their own drives, let refined manage the booting and you choose which environment to launch. Windows will never know the other os or bootloader exists. Also turn off fastboot in windows, the cause of a lot of problems.

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

I need to keep a windows installation because I need MS Office. LibreOffice is fine 98% of the time, but I've got a handful of complex documents and spreadsheets that just don't render correctly in LO, and I'm not going to spend the weeks it takes to correct them.

I'll look into refined, but currently can't afford anything but essentials so it'll be a ways off before I can get a new HD

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

The office problem. I moved over a long time ago. Word at that time couldnt handle large documents, and excel was a pain in the ass for the csv data we were getting at the time.

Either deal with that pain over a few weeks, or deal with that pain forever! Maybe the fork of onlyoffice will do what you want.

If its only office you can just run windows inside of linux without issue and have it launch the office application when needed using winapps. https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps

Personally I just keep windows in a docker container for that ultra rare time I need windows.