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Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

And you’d be technically correct, the best kind of correct.

To the inquisitor:

any distro that’s fully OSS can be fully compiled from scratch with any modifications you choose).

Though yes, if you’re still using Windows, the learning curve may look like a wall.

I really want to know what they changed to break the clipboard service

Guessing the X11 [X]Wayland migration KDE Plasma bug report? Should be fixed in 6.5.2.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Adjacent comment. I've found working in a true posix environment is drastically better than the oddities I dealt with Win32. One annoyance is Microsoft has never been able to implement fork().

    Though i never messed with x11 as I was never motivated to see what it was like under the figurative hood.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Sorry, switched contexts there. Microsoft broke their clipboard service recently which makes me think they added "telemetry" collecting logic somewhere in there.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    Oh right, I misread. And yeah not sure (my win32 repro targets have all been locked for a while) but with all the facepalm regressions I’ve read about lately it really could be anything.

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