Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control

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Wpd App

#OS & Utilities #Security & Privacy #Tool 41 social mentions

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Hosts by Steven Black

#Security & Privacy #Ad Blockers #Threat Detection And Prevention

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Ninite

I'd never heard of Ninite, it looks potentially quite useful: https://ninite.com/.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #SSH 447 social mentions

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Scoop

If you use chocolatey, you might want to give scoop a shot ;) https://scoop.sh/.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 155 social mentions

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Syncthing

Not that it absolves MS, but this is the status quo, since broadband internet is widespread. Systems in general became very chatty over the net, and every proprietary system phones home for various functionalities, user conveniences and telemetry. And very few system is explicit upfront what gets communicated over the net and what not. Even private, open source software communicates a bunch by default, like Syncthing. This one specifically is peer to peer, and advertises privacy first thing on the homepage, but two instances, both behind NATs, still can't communicate without a third party that connects them at first - like STUN/TURN systems that they themselves host (stun.syncthing.net). https://syncthing.net/.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #File Sharing And Backup 826 social mentions

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Pop!_OS

Same, I started the process of installing Pop!_OS [1] last week. I hope all drivers and things like Fan control work will properly, so far it seems to work really well out of the box so I was impressed - but I haven't tested any games yet for example. [1] https://pop.system76.com/ PS. I still can't believe Windows has declined so much, what the hell is happening at Microsoft?

#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 450 social mentions