I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended.

Creepy behavior

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    At this point for me, trying to get games working on Linux has become easier than trying to get telemetry to stop working on Windows.

    • cooopsspace@infosec.pub
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      1 year ago

      And since Ive never bought the problematic games before it's so much easier for me.

      I'd encourage anyone to ditch the crappy anticheat broken crap and just go back to playing good high quality games.

    • mihor@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Sorry for the rant but why the hell people still entertain themselves with proprietary Windows games in 2023?!? So much so that they are willing to put up with such utter rubbish of an OS? Man, just play better games, even FOSS ones, on Linux! The proprietary rubbish pay-to-win games should be shunned!