This is probably a case of heavy survivorship bias. Some don’t get caught, and the ones who get caught doing actually crazy exploits we don’t hear about.

Apparently it requires a Microsoft account to work, so local-only accounts are safe (in the case of patched windows ISOs). But this only disabled GDID and there’s still no guarantee that there aren’t other idenfiers.

The only part of “just works” that’s still “just” working is that windows comes installed by default on the vast majority of laptops. I dread having to use windows each time I have to, not because linux is that much better, but because windows is really just that much worse.

and how do you think the social account was linked with said identifier?

arguably more stupid for using windows and assuming there was any level of privacy

Possibly, but how often do you use WiFi on a phone?

Basically whenever I’m at home or a relative’s house?

and as far as I can tell there weren’t any lies either

While it does seem that way initially, strict copyleft licences can often do more harm than good. Projects need companies to use their software so that it becomes popular and get funding. There’s a reason why there’s barely any AGPL (or adjacent) licenced projects compared to GPL or MIT.

When people comment about having issues with Linux, this is what that should be compared with.

Or not, since linux distros ideally shouldn’t be bound to windows. (but realistically they are)

There are many alternatives to Active Directory, some even cross-platform. Microsoft basically has a monopoly in such things because those alternatives don’t work well on Windows (both OS and Server).

Even windows doesn’t run all windows applications, so I think it’s bad to judge that way. Hell, windows doesn’t even run itself properly half the time.

Well I would assume less powerful ones should take up less power. Also, don’t normal LED displays also require this, or sometimes more computation to calculate the pixels?

afaik it’s very possible to make e-inks with 20+fps, but the microcontroller used to power the display isn’t powerful enough. I’ll link the yt vid if I can find it.

found it: https://youtu.be/nHbA2-_qzH4

it’s a 60 fps colour e-ink display