DidMySettingsChange - A python script that checks if windows changed your settings behind your back (github.com)
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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Havatra@lemmy.zip on 08 Oct 03:59 next collapse

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…

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch on 08 Oct 04:18 collapse

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.

ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com on 08 Oct 06:22 collapse

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

Kissaki@programming.dev on 08 Oct 06:44 next collapse

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?

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 08 Oct 06:57 next collapse

Damn, imagine never having used a sane OS in your life ever

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org on 08 Oct 07:52 next collapse

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!”

CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 08:35 collapse

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.

Wolf314159@startrek.website on 08 Oct 10:06 collapse

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.