(02-26-2018, 12:17 AM)VIKINGS Wrote: Plenty of good advice there too, but one thing I would totally disagree with mstreurman on is windows 10, never install that piece of crap on any of your systems!! Unless you want microshit to know everything you're doing(and eventually the whole world when their servers will inevitably get hacked) and you want them to install software on your pc without your knowledge, etc, etc, etc. And despite what some people will tell you no, you can't opt out of all that, even if you try to disable some of it they will renable it without your knowledge....
In my opinion a tiny boost in performance is not worth losing whatever privacy we have left. But hey, your choice.
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Sorry, but in this reality/world you are already tracked (and owned) wherever you go and whatever you do is saved by someone somewhere. So if anything gets hacked your life is on the street. I'd say one more or one less doesn't matter anymore.
Even if you decide to go "off-the-grid" and go live in the middle of the ocean, jungle or desert without any modern commodities you will still be tracked (probably even more so because "they" want to know what you're up to).
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