"pro tip: if you totally change the way you type you can avoid microsoft turning your computer into a cryptomining node for the north korean mafia!"

or something like that. i can't find the original thread.

@ghorwood Is this the like infosec equivalent of solid gold audio cables or whatever?

@meejah https://social.beebl.es/@beebles/110934515745273182

@ghorwood double-you tee eff?

@meejah @ghorwood

I honestly can't tell whether this is endorsement of the Beebles thread (with exasperation that we live in a world where this kind of hack is useful) or criticism of the thread as bad or badly impractical advice.

Help me out?

@dynamic @meejah it’s the exasperation one. i mean: windows _costs money_. it’s not like they’re giving it away and living off revenue from installing this third party stuff. they’re just leveraging their monopoly and they only way to opt out is basically a hack.

and the amazing thing is everyone in the the thread just acts like this is a reasonable state of affairs.

@ghorwood @meejah

Fair enough. The reason why I boosted the thread was that I recently installed Windows 11 for work reasons, and was appalled by the number of things I needed to manually opt out of... and I suspect I may have broken some things in the process.

The idea of this kind of workaround was therefore quite appealing, even though I don't really think anyone should be using proprietary operating systems at all.