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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Has anybody found a way to turn Microsoft's ads off yet? I'm tired of dismissing their prompts to switch to Edge and Office 365 every few months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I run a local account and toggled off all the telemetry stuff during installation nine years ago. Never saw one of those. Didn't even get toggled on with updates. Only problem I had was Copilot getting added a few weeks ago. By that time, Win10 had become the compatibility fallback for Linux, though.

So, create a local account, go into Settings, and toggle off everything that could maybe be telemetry related.

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

O&O Shutup for Windows is also a solid tool for disabling telemetry and bloat. They have a recommended set of options to flip, all of which can be flipped at once, which is real damn convenient.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

As an experiment I revoked the certificate that is used for code verification on the executable responsible for the popups. So far the only thing I broke was the .net installer. But no more pop-ups. :D

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, but you won't like to hear it...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I installed Linux one time and now im a cat girl

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don’t listen to them, I installed Linux multiple times and I‘m still a fat nerd

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Who said a cat girl cant be a fat nerd

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

sigh

gets his Ventoy USB drive ready for a new ISO...