Lux Posted November 22, 2016 Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 (edited) Seems like the best bet is to get a single seat Enterprise license which runs (i believe) about 6-8$ per month. So 100ish $ per year and you can turn off Telemetry and disable auto updating of drivers at least. Looks to me like this is the only way forward. EDIT: This seems in-line with MS's desire to turn all their assets in to a subscription model. If you want free or one-time fee then you get all the garbage that comes with it so MS can use your info for AD revenue. What are you guys' thoughts? Edited November 28, 2016 by Lux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V-Man339 Posted November 26, 2016 Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 A decade later and Windows 7 is still your best bet for an operating system for playing new and old games. Wow, did Microsoft screw the pooch. Quote I like to record difficult stealth games, and right now you wonderful people are the only ones delivering on that front. Click here for the crappy channel where that happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerdude Posted November 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2016 A decade later and Windows 7 is still your best bet for an operating system for playing new and old games.And cert wise Win7 is still more secure than Win10 - http://betanews.com/2016/11/24/windows-10-security-emet/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 http://www.ghacks.net/2017/02/04/windows-10-cloud-disappoints-first-look/ Microsoft to users: "You'll use the Windows Store and you'll like it, even if we have to drag you in, kicking and screaming all the way." When I saw the bottom screenshot in that article, I just had to make a quick correction. http://i.imgur.com/l9oV6js.png Dear Microsoft, a PC is not an Ipad or a game console. We're not going to be limited exclusively to getting apps from your store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 http://www.ghacks.net/2017/02/04/windows-10-cloud-disappoints-first-look/ Microsoft to users: "You'll use the Windows Store and you'll like it, even if we have to drag you in, kicking and screaming all the way." When I saw the bottom screenshot in that article, I just had to make a quick correction. http://i.imgur.com/l9oV6js.png Dear Microsoft, a PC is not an Ipad or a game console. We're not going to be limited exclusively to getting apps from your store.I don't usually agree with this person but when I do, it's this: Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted March 9, 2017 Report Share Posted March 9, 2017 https://betanews.com/2017/03/08/disable-ads-file-explorer-windows-10/ I'm choking with laughter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woah Posted March 12, 2017 Report Share Posted March 12, 2017 So I have Windows 10 running again and I've successfully blocked the telemetry/forced updates: 1) Install openwrt/gargoyle custom firmware on your router (I already had this anyway)2) Add a simple iptables rule (on your router in /etc/config/firewall) to DROP (not REJECT) all WAN traffic over all protocols from your windows PC by MAC address. LAN traffic is still good.3) Install and configure a SOCKS server on your openwrt router that simply forwards connections from clients right back onto your network (LAN and WAN). Dante (aka "sockd") is in the repos and it supports TCP, UDP, ICMP as far as I can tell.4) Install an application "proxifier" client on your WIndows PC and configure it for the SOCKS proxy server on your router. Then selectively proxify each application. I'm using SocksCap64 because it supports UDP and automatically proxifies child processes. The application is freeware but proprietary (tries to load up an advertisement in its GUI but it fails to load since it doesn't connect to the advertisement through the SOCKS proxy). If your Windows applications have integrated SOCKS proxy support, may as well use that. As far as I can tell this works fine (at least with everything I've tested, including Steam and multiplayer games). I realized that any software firewall / bandwidth shaper I installed in windows itself was likely going to get circumvented since ultimately the OS has control of everything up to your NIC. There's probably some line of code in there that checks for internet connectivity before control ever reaches your userspace firewall/bandwidth shaper application. But with the above setup, from the OS's perspective it just looks like I'm running Windows on a LAN-only connection. So unless the OS opportunistically takes over the proxified applications's connections and tests for internet connectivity, I don't see them getting around this. Will have to give this some more time of course and monitor things closely to ensure that there aren't any issues with this. Can then write up a guide if anyone's interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted March 13, 2017 Report Share Posted March 13, 2017 More lols for everyone! https://betanews.com/2017/03/12/disgustingly-sneaky-windows-10-ads/ It is nice to see others waking up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerdude Posted March 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2017 Following on from Kano's post above, "Playable ad's".... https://www.techpowerup.com/231486/microsoft-introducing-playable-ads-on-its-windows-store er... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbohr1more Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 LOL. Now Microsoft wont give you "security patches" if you have a pre-Windows 10 OS paired witha new CPU: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012982/discusses-an-issue-in-which-you-receive-a-your-pc-uses-a-processor-tha so that nifty workaround to get Windows 7 to install on Ryzen has been nullified I guess. (Unless someone can somehow fool Windows Updates into thinking that it's running on an older CPU arch. CPUID spoofing etc.) Quote Please visit TDM's IndieDB site and help promote the mod: http://www.indiedb.com/mods/the-dark-mod (Yeah, shameless promotion... but traffic is traffic folks...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) Nevermind, already posted here and can't delete. Edited March 16, 2017 by kano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerdude Posted March 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 You just create your own update pack to get around the above Bollox - - https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=create+your+own+windows+update+pack&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b&gfe_rd=cr&ei=DxbLWPzJJKP38AebiaOIDg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted March 16, 2017 Report Share Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) LOL. Now Microsoft wont give you "security patches" if you have a pre-Windows 10 OS paired witha new CPU:I'm guessing that if you install Vista on one of these machines equipped with a brand new CPU, it will update just fine. Windows Update never gave a damn about what CPU was in the machine before as long as it was X86 compatible and its really fishy that it starts doing so now. And of course Microsoft has no reason to intentionally hobble Vista because its at something like 3% anyway. Windows 7 and 8.1, on the other hand... By the way, Microsoft, Windows 8.1 is still supposed to be in the *mainstream support period*. I just thought you would like to know. Edited March 16, 2017 by kano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted April 14, 2017 Report Share Posted April 14, 2017 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/13/microsoft_kills_support_old_windows_on_new_chips/ Mwahahaha... Microsoft tried to shut out users with new hardware from getting updates for Windows 7 and 8.1, but they accidentally caught hardware which is supposed to be supported in this snag too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted August 21, 2017 Report Share Posted August 21, 2017 I Hope you weren't a ReFS fan! https://www.ghacks.net/2017/08/21/microsoft-removes-refs-file-system-create-option-from-windows-10-pro/ Selling people a product and then retroactively pulling features, in order to needlessly up-sell the users should be illegal. Actually, I'm pretty sure that it is. A lot of Pro-Microsoft people like to claim that they're not "selling" you Windows and that you're not "buying" it, so this somehow makes Microsoft's behavior okay, but to these people, I happily lift up my printed Windows receipt which clearly states that it was a *sale*, and I also point to the buttons on Newegg and Amazon which are labeled "Buy Now", not "license now". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomica Posted August 22, 2017 Report Share Posted August 22, 2017 (edited) . Edited August 2, 2018 by Atomica 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted October 13, 2017 Report Share Posted October 13, 2017 https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/news/dutch-dpa-microsoft-breaches-data-protection-law-windows-10 Say no to Spydows 10! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stumpy Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-10-mobile-features-hardware-death-sentence-microsoft/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 (edited) You almost feel sorry for Microsoft. Windows Phone bit the dust, and Intel canceled the ultra-low power Atom CPUs that were used in budget X86 tablets and phones. At one point Intel were showing off a phone with an Atom CPU that ran Android and Linux x86 applications simultaneously, pretty cool. But they scrapped that, too. It would have inevitably been used to build an x86 phone that runs Windows... Microsoft really needed the low-cost Intel Atom chips to put up a fight against the bargain basement Android tablets that go for under $100. Edited October 14, 2017 by kano Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 For now they retreat to regroup Cortana with Amazon Alexa, consolidate Windows 10 market share and then return.I use win 10 mobile. I can confirm that we still receive security and performance updates for maintenance. The x86 processors are the only way to break the Android iOS oligopoly. Until they have something they won't talk, so as not to disappoint. Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerdude Posted October 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/10/dutch-privacy-regulator-says-that-windows-10-breaks-the-law/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted October 14, 2017 Report Share Posted October 14, 2017 Pretty much. Thus far looks like EU countries are the most active in regards to consumer rights.Recently there's also this: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/307601/PEGI_is_leaving_the_verdict_on_loot_boxes_up_to_gambling_commissions.php Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kano Posted October 15, 2017 Report Share Posted October 15, 2017 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive/exclusive-yahoo-secretly-scanned-customer-emails-for-u-s-intelligence-sources-idUSKCN1241YT As long as nations like the US are doing things like this behind the scenes, they have no reason whatsoever to punish Microsoft for forcing intrusive software on the public, and every reason to just look the other way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted October 16, 2017 Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 (edited) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive/exclusive-yahoo-secretly-scanned-customer-emails-for-u-s-intelligence-sources-idUSKCN1241YT As long as nations like the US are doing things like this behind the scenes, they have no reason whatsoever to punish Microsoft for forcing intrusive software on the public, and every reason to just look the other way. In the US natural persons can still sue them for compensation as it has happened already (an win). More global and systematic steps against Microsoft's policy at this moment might not happen. Edited October 16, 2017 by Anderson Quote "I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."... - 2 July 1844 letter to James Russell Lowell from Edgar Allan Poe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikerdude Posted October 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2017 How to block Win 10 Creators update - https://www.itworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft-windows/how-to-block-windows-10-fall-creators-update-from-installing.amp.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i can send you the package via ftp or make a temporary link avaliable on my old site but it would be taken down within a day so let me know when you are ready.· 3 replies
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