DidMySettingsChange - A python script that checks if windows changed your settings behind your back
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from androidisking@lemmy.world to programming@programming.dev on 08 Oct 02:35
https://lemmy.world/post/37043964
from androidisking@lemmy.world to programming@programming.dev on 08 Oct 02:35
https://lemmy.world/post/37043964
I created this application after getting tired of seeing settings change for no apparent reason. Due to privacy concerns of how Microsoft is with their aggressive telemetry I decided to use this to make sure my settings stay in tact.
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This is something I’d love to have for the past decade or so, but as I’m now transitioning to Linux I hope to not have much of this problem anymore.
Nice of you to create this though, and I share your tiredness of settings being changed behind our backs…
I’m on Linux and I was going to shit all over Windows but realized I could use this on a few servers that I fuck with and constantly break.
I enjoy using NixOS with Impermanence for servers.
settings can’t be changed if you nuke them from orbit and create them fresh on every boot. To get the same behavior on windows, you’d probably need an image-based system and neutered updating
What does “all known Windows privacy and telemetry settings” entail and mean?
Registry and group policy?
Is this sourced from a shared effort project of known stuff, or does this project track it’s own, and would need notice and updates of new settings?
It’s theoretically possible to extract all the GPO effected registry keys from the ADMX files Microsoft releases, but yeah, I have serious doubts that any tool like this will be able to just detect and track every distinct setting. Let alone accurately identify what each does. I’m sure there’s at least one setting that’s been carried over from the “stuff it in an .ini in a system folder” days.
But if there is some community sourced list for settings, where they’re stored, and how they work that would be amazing!
Damn, imagine never having used a sane OS in your life ever
Yep. Over a decade ago when I just started using Linux, somebody posted something on a forum that I have remembered ever since: “suddenly I realized that the software is on my side!”
Linux desktop is still a mess. Windows sucks but it’ll work out of the box and doesn’t require you to research motherboard drivers and gpus to work.
Nice try MSBot, this hasn’t been the case for a long time
Windows, famous for not needing drivers installed lol
What ever you say. I’m not getting into arguments with zealots. Last time a bazzite founder came to acknowledge my issues and the guy went 5 threads deep arguing with him 🤣.
Don’t worry, I’m not here to claim you don’t have issues
Linux works out of the box when it comes with your system like Windows does.
The only reason the windows experience is that good is because the vendor did that motherboard/component research for you.
My system 76 was the worst laptop I’ve ever owned. Literally the only laptop I’ve ever sent back in my life.
Yeah, I’m used to having my config in
git. Buuuut I guess non-devs aren’t really used to that workflow.Can this keep num lock engaged? I swear my biggest frustration with windows lately is it’s habit of randomly and arbitrarily turning off numlock after I’ve turned it on. I never turn off numlock while working. I never use the number pad arrows. I prefer the number pad numbers and use them practically all day. And yet, several times a day I find my cursor moving around the screen instead of typing a number because windows decided that it got to control the numlock function instead of me and the dedicated light up key designed for that function that has worked fine for me for decades before.
That’s a cat & mouse game. A german investigation of Windows 10 data privacy back then was named project SiSyPHuS for a reason. It never ends.
I set a static IP for my Windows partition and block it from internet with my firewall. It’s hostile malware that must be quarantined. My Linux partition has a different IP that is not blocked.
On a related note, I jack up my Mint install a few times a year with nobody to blame but myself. I recently reinstalled it with btrfs, Timeshift with automatic snapshots, and btrfs-grub so I can boot from a snapshot instead of troubleshooting or reinstalling. I realize other distros like openSUSE are more or less setup like this out of the box or offer full immutability, but I like Mint.
I will only use windows in a VM without networking, it will get only shared folder that it can’t write to but can read from.
And even then, if i absolutely 100% can’t run it through bottles/proton and alternatives do not work either.