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Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Doesn't MacOS phone home every time you run a new or changed executable? https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/27/xprotect-what-do-we-know-about-it/

Edit: might be that it phones home for each executable if last it run was more than 12 hours ago, given this: https://www.howtogeek.com/701176/does-apple-track-every-mac-app-you-run-ocsp-explained/

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Doesn't Windows as well?

Regardless, Windows recording literally everything I do is worse than logging the apps I open.