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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

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[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 197 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly if you're still trying to find workaround for Microsofts crap at this point - just switch to Linux.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 198 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] q47tx@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Exactly. If something only works on windows, its most likely not worth your time and money.

[–] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

The exceptions I have seen are many CAD softwares and photo editing software (I use Affinity Photo)

[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🙄 there are plenty of great games with anti cheat.

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah and they all work on Linux.

The ones that don't can get fucked.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I game on Linux every day.

I wish multiplayer worked across the board but it’s whatever. I don’t have time for it any way haha.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What multiplayer doesn't work? Do you mean because of EAC not working or something?

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. I’d like to play the older call of duty games when I hook it up on my dock. I’ve thought about dual booting, but the work, man. Maybe I’ll get my daughter to do it one day. She’s still tech excited. The world hasn’t burned her out yet. :p

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] Euphoma@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't play VR on linux without significant pain and most VR games are from small devs who don't do unethical stuff like pay-to-win.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 4 points 1 year ago

There's tons of SteamVR for Linux fixes flowing in right now. Assuming Valve doesn't break anything, the setup on AMD cards with KDE is now just:

  • Set GPU to VR performance mode
  • Install SteamVR
  • Disable async reprojection
  • Start SteamVR
[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Minetest and veloren masterrace

[–] ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Voltaren masterrace, reporting in.

[–] MJBrune@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you have a wireless Xbox controller it becomes far harder. Xone is what I want to use but then I have xow, xbdrvr and a bunch of other things to deal with. Or if I want to actually use my Nvidia video card to it's fullest ability, well good luck.

Linux is awesome but has a bit to go for me. Although it's been that was since it stopped being my daily driver in 2014.

[–] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh, my daily driver is a linux, i just have a spare surface book 3 i use occasionally for gaming (the thing is surprisingly powerful)

Idk how well linux would support detaching and touchscreen with pen. But I’ll definitely switch the os to linux sometime in the future when i get a new gaming rig.

[–] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

I have a convertible laptop with pen and it works fine.

[–] glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using linux-surface on my surface book 2, works perfectly. BUT the webcam doesn't work :-)

[–] Nanabaz2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You know. I disable that crap stuff from bios on my zenbook s.

Someimes broken webcam is a good thing. At least to some....

[–] American_Jesus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

In trying it doing that on someone hybrid, not surface but a Lenovo, PopOS! seems to works mostly out-of-box.