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I have a Windows PC?
It’s news to me. I gotta get Mint on it.
CachyOS has been phenomenal for me. Coming up on 7 months now without using windows beyond as a moonlight client on an ARM64 laptop (and windows server, because sysadmin gotta sysadmin.)
Cachy is the way.
you wouldn't download an operating system
People should stop doing that
They should have stopped decades ago. Mint or Ubuntu are easier to install than Windows 2000 and way more powerful.
Yeah, been using Linux as my only OS since late 2000s
How else can you appreciate your RAM’s obligatory RGB features?
My joke was not clear enough. I appreciate you for your helpfulness.
It's really good for turning off the RGB
I haven't since middle of last year.
Congratulations!
Guess you won one?
Is this one of those scam mails where you won something?
Oh No, no no no no, you just won a super pc gaming and all! Just send me your credit card number and I'll figure out where to send it! Promise!
Your network interface has a permanent ID that follows you
If that's really a concern, USB or PCIe NICs are always an option as a replacement, whether temporary or permanent. More advanced users can create virtual connections to route traffic through (macvlans) with custom configurable MAC addresses and/or use virtual machines that offer the same feature if a guest OS is preferred or necessary.
The identifier the article is talking about is instead persistent on any Windows OS regardless of hardware, including if the OS is a virtual machine. Using the OS at all on the Internet ensures Microsoft can always track it.
It's trivial to spoof
I had a Samsung media player for the US market, its functions were super limited (music, video, images, shit games) compared to the Korean market release ( previous list, better games plus two player live Bluetooth games, subway maps for major global cities, multi language dictionaries. Note taking app, ecpanded themeing of interface)
I found the firmware updater online, the Korean releasr OS version , and part of that process was just Editting the bluetooth MAC manually in a text file prior to reflashing....it was an eye opener to MAC/NIC stuff not being as locked down like all the software licensing vendors portrayed it was.