Y’all are probably tired of hearing it, but Linux has come a long way, especially for gaming; spin up a VM and try a few distros out.
I’ve used Linux desktop for over 25 years now
It was mostly ready for all that time. I installed KDE Linux on my mother in law’s computer for basic browsing and games like solitaire 15 years ago. She was in her late 60s and loved using it for almost a decade.
Linux today is not “ready”, it’s the only serious choice for an operating system for everyone
Yep, I installed Aurora on an aging parent’s laptop, because I was worried they’d be the target of some well-crafted malware campaign (hence why I went atomic). Plus the parent doesn’t have good privacy practice, and I know Microsoft was datamining everything they were doing.
That’s why all my devices running that piece of shit stay at work. Far away from my network.
Why is there never any more detail how the GDID is then used to collect information?
The complaint says Microsoft had records showing that on May 12, 2025, at 19:21 UTC, the GDID associated with Stokes’ computer “accessed, among other ngrok pages, ‘https://dashboard[.]ngrok.com/signup,’ the ngrok page to set up an ngrok account.”
How do the records show a GDID in connection to the website?
Iirc other articles were specifying he was also using Edge AND had edge cloud sync or w/e enabled
hacker
Uh huh
TBF nVidia and Intel components supposedly had the same sort of capability for many years now: unique device ids.
But yeh, fuck windowsm
MS is part of the surveillance tech that leo uses.
Hardly surprising. Fuck Microslop!
Every time something like this comes out I’m reminded how much telemetry exists that most users never think about.
Linux distros have the same kind of device ID mechanism (
/etc/machine-idor/var/lib/dbus/machine-id)… the only difference is how applications use it.