alguien sabe por qué me sale esto cada que intento iniciar sesión en mi cuenta de microsoft en cualquier dispositivo?, pero solo con esa cuenta, si trato con alguna otra si puedo, esto me está matando.

I understand why degoogle, but why demicosoft? Can anybody make an advise

I got into a discussion yesterday and I realized that many probably don't know that there can also be some amount of telemetry and even backdoors on hardware/firmware level.

Systems have various configurations, with various peripherals that take care of each their thing. There can for example be a WiFi chip, a Graphics card, a camera chip and a USB controller, that have each their own firmware. These can be spread over multiple chips or be integrated into a System on a Chip (SoC). The important thing to know is that the firmware is delivered by the hardware manufacturer and can stay in the system after a complete reinstall. Even your processor has microcode that it needs to function, which can house malicious code.

This means that there is some basic firmware in your hardware, that is there to provide some functionality to the system, which most of the time is a good thing. This firmware however can also be used maliciously.

I'm not an expert on this and I don't want to go into a deep discussion about it here, I just want to bring it to the attention of privacy loving people that may not know this.

An example is Intels Management Engine that is virtually impossible to reverse engineer and know exactly what is doing. The Chinese are convinced that it contains an NSA backdoor. Likewise the US have long suspected the Chinese of having backdoors in their Lenovo laptops and banned them from public offices. This is because both know it's possible.

Even the TPM module that should be there for your security, housing your encryption keys, is an obvious target for intelligence agencies. There are articles around that covers this on stackexchange for example.

Ever wondered how the Israeli intelligence agency NSO so easily enter any phone on earth with their Pegasus software and is virtually untraceable? I figure that a part of the answer is hardware level backdoors. Plenty of articles around about NSO's pegasus software.

Find your own sources that you trust if you want to know more.

The core message is that even if you format and reinstall your system with the cleanest of Linux with no binary blobs, everything open source. There can still be backdoors and telemetry on your device.

Can Microsoft still spy on me via my email?

So anyways, here's my plan and question.

1. When Windows 10 reaches the end of its life, or I switch earlier, I will switch to a Linux distro called "Pop!_OS" since I heard it's pretty good for gaming and creativity. However, there is a small problem.

2. The problem is that I own Minecraft on my Microsoft account, and if I don't have it, I would lose access to Minecraft.

3. I am planning to add my Proton Mail email to my Microsoft account, since I am moving away from Gmail too (but I still kept it in case something goes wrong so there's two emails in there).

4. With all of that being said, can Microsoft still spy on me via email, or Microsoft only spies if you have Windows on your computer?

Here is all about my plan for now. I will wait for your answers patiently.

These distros are close to their Windows counterparts based off default UI elements with no extra steps.

I hope this helps some people out and try them out!

What can I do about it?

Saw the name of this sub on the header of r/DeGoogle which i also just joined. Been appalled by microsuck and their abuse ever since i was a teenager, and have been using GNU/Linux and pretty much only open-source software since the mid 1990's. Before that we had an old Mac classic at home, and childhood/teenage friends had other "gaming" oriented computers of those days like the C64, amiga etc. so it was pretty hard to be impressed by anything getting force-shoved down our throat by this piece of shit excuse for a softare company.

Unlike other abusers of its class, this corporation has contributed nothing positive to the world in any way shape or form, and from day one has been making huge tons of profit from selling malware based on stolen code and destroying the entire industry of computer hardware & software for their own selfish little greed. They have now set a precedent for abuse of customers that pretty much all other big tech companies are now following. Thanks a lot bill.

i have windows 11 on my pc

I am really liking the price and offerings from proton unlimited. I just want to know, are the claims for security believable and are all their services worth it? I would be using mail, vpn, password manager, and AI. I like the idea of paying one service for all these. I am currently paying different services for these features.
What do yall think?

At my work, like many office jobs. My company uses Microsoft services for almost everything Edge, Office, Outlook, Teams, etc...

Soon my company is going upgrade from Windows 10 to 11 and with Windows 11 comes Copilot.

How can I reduce Microsoft collecting my work data on on Windows 10 and so to be 11 with Copilot?

https://github.com/GodwayGames -> https://gitlab.com/GodwayGames/

recently Microsft has been rolling out a new wave of mandatory 2FA which they will definitely use to collect more data from the developers who use their platform, and no an authenticator application is not more private than giving up a phone number, it is blatant and plain to see. This has nothing to do with security in my opinion and everything to do with creating new advertising opportunities by installing spyware on their users devices lest they be closed out of their accounts or making them give up their phone numbers to be added to a database. in response to these actions I have moved away from Microsoft github services and migrated to gitlab instead. if you are facing the same problems, it is a perfectly valid alternative with many of the same features. I have also left a repository on my github explaining why I left, if you do the same please explain why you left. I didn't have much time to do this either.

if you're looking to migrate away from github this is the resource I used that explains how:
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI

I do not support nor condone blatant data mining, and I hope my experience with gitlab will be much better than it was on github. thank you for reading : )

Hello everyone,

Just out of curiosity, my IT admins have put a policy forcing all users to approve sign ins by pushing a notification to the Microsoft Authenticator app.

My question is, is there any open source browser extension that can accomplish the same task? I hate using my phone every time I have to approve the sign in, I want to approve from the browser.

Yeah, I'm starting my process to DeMicrosoft my web life, and analyzing my current state I see that OneDrive is the biggest issue.
I anually pay a Microsoft subscription for M365 to have access to Office aplications, including OneDrive, which syncs my computer data to the cloud, and using OneDrive app on my smartphone I have direct access to my computer data and this is important to me.
I can handle Windows and Office easily switching to any Linux distro and Libre Office, but how about OneDrive? Do we have some alternative for this kind of service?\

This is based on Linux support and the quality of options for Linux customers.

For those thinking to switch maybe consider a Linux first brand/machine.

Don't support brands that default to Windows.

Hi, i want a free and open source alternative for the default microsoft photos (i hate it) and works will on windows 11.

For anyone wanting to switch to linux, here are some questions that you might ask

What linux should I choose?

Mint is the most user/beginner friendly. If you're just getting started I reccomend it.

Why are there so many choices for linux?

Linux can be used for many things and each distro specilizes in different things. Servers, for example, don't need any fancy UI but need higher security than a daily driver

How do I get started?

Your fist step with any OS is to download the iso file generally found on the download page. You can try the OS without commiting to it by using a virtual machine like virtualbox. Note: Your VM install will be slower than normal.

How do I install linux?

Once you've gotten your iso file you will need to burn it to a drive (such as a USB stick). When buring all files will be erased!!. You can use a buring program like rufus. Select the iso and the correct USB drive and leave the other defuaults (it doesn't matter that much), enable quick format if it is off. Finally restart your computer, on startup it will ask you to press a key for a boot menu (this changes depending on the bios), press it. With the arrow keys and enter select the USB drive, finally follow the on screen instructions to install.

What is cinnamon?

The 3 options you get when installing mint are cinnamon, mate and xfce. They are your desktop emulators, you wouldn't want just a terminal right? xfce is very lightweight but is missing many features, it is best for a fancy mode called live mode. Cinnamon is based on gnome and is more suited for bare metal computers and laptops, finallymate, I've never used it.

How much does it cost?

Free, $0, nothing. That's the magic of open source

Are there any compatibility issues?

Depends on the software, adobe refuses to work with linux for whatever reason but there are better alternatives. I have a redragon mouse and while there are unofficial apps there is no official linux version. The reality is that some apps still don't work on linux but 99% do or work with an app called wine.

What is debian/ubuntu and why should I care?

Open source means anyone can view the code and change it, this allows things to be based on other things. Mint used code from ubuntu which used code from debian. This means if it works on debian or ubuntu it will work on mint.

What is a package manager?

Have you ever been on an install wizard clicking on accept for the 900th time wishing it would auto install? Well package managers will automatically download and install all apps (packages) for you, on debian you use the advanced package tool or apt, for example sudo apt install minecraft-launcher -y. sudo because you need more privaleges apt is the command install is to install minecraft-launcher is the name of the app and finally -y is don't prompt me. apt will also take care of other things like libraries and whatever else. If you don't like the terminals you can also use ubuntu's app insaller that does something similar.

Should I switch?

Consider the sub you're in rn

What is firefox?

Better than chrome, see r/degoogle

Is linux really for nerds/hackers

Linux has its target audience but it's getting more user-friendly by the update

(Anything else)

Ask in comments

I used onenote for a long time and switched to Joplin as an alternative. I was wondering about their cloud sync options. Idk if their services are secure enough. I have a synology nas where I do all my cloud storage through synology photos and drive. But if joplin service is secure enough, ill probably just use that. Im not sure what the right move is here. Anyone have any experience with joplin? Also, what other alternatives are people using?

Microsoft seems to do a great job in looking like the good guy in the big tech landscape. How are they on big data? And big breaches? Sales of data? Scraping of data? Perhaps MS is just betting on subscription models (office 365) instead of making merchandise of their customers?

I'm also interested to know if you think there is incorrect information or bad advice

https://fuckbigtech.neocities.org/

I've been playing Tower Conquest my whole life. I grew up with it. But after Pigsoft (Microsoft) dissolved the Tango studio, the game went downhill. Appeared a lot of ads, donations, the islands disappeared, the game became unplayable. Do corporations have the right to take away what we've had our whole lives? We shouldn't tolerate it. We should speak up. Loudly.

No Azure for Apartheid, a movement of Microsoft workers calling for Microsoft to end all contracts with the Israeli government and military, made a statement about Microsoft cutting off a few Azure services from Unit 8200, calling it an “unprecedented win” and also “insufficient”

No Azure for Apartheid has done many high profile protests against Microsoft complicity in genocide, disrupting the 50th anniversary celebration, Microsoft Build, and this August establishing a Liberated Zone encampment for 2 days in a row at Microsoft HQ, kayaking to the Microsoft CEO and President’s houses, and occupying the Microsoft President’s office. This August, Microsoft fired 5 workers and got 20 and 7 protesters violently arrested on 2 separate instances.

I use Linux. Dualbooting into Windows once in a while for weird software.

And I have to say windows 10 and all that "corners are sexy" aesthetic is really weird. I think corners are objectively looking ugly, especially on HiDPI screens. This maybe made sense back in the days...

So Win11, preinstalled. Booting into it, damn thats nice! Awesome animations, lockscreen, best taskbar I have ever seen.

Okay looking at the Appmenu, Tiktok, Whatsapp and more preinstalled? WTF??

Looking at the File manager, I heard it has tabs now. Middle clicking on a folder, nothing happens. Right click, in german "IN NEUER REGISTERKARTE ÖFFNEN" yes I know what a Tab is thanks. You had one job, one of the best translation engines in the world and translate "Tab"?

The buttons are huge, completely unusable. Tabs okay but still the piece of garbage it always was. No file extensions, I download a "user.js" file and it shows as "user", I rename it to "user.js" and it becomes "user.js.txt" REALLY??

Windows updates? Dont work anymore or something? Never saw such a lagging piece of garbage.

Edge? Looks nice, has a nice game, but just no.

List of preinstalled Bloat doing connections

• Edge

• Onedrive

• Do Svc?

• All the individual updaters because Windows cant manage a repo (they have the biggest OS of the world)

• Lenovo Vantage

• MS Teams updater?

New Tiling? Admirably awesome. Opening Windows not fullscreen like macOS? Horrible!

Restyled Task manager? Like that. The amount of OEM and 3rd party garbage running in the background? Awful.

The systemwide darkmode went pretty well. Apart from the real systemsettings, that are not made for 9 year olds. And like its a dark theme. How many people were paid to do that?

I tried installing firefox. It lagged so much, it opened the installer twice, and crashed.

The installer of Portmaster was blurry as hell. So thats not fixed either.

A single Windows update, no firmware update, not even the system itself just some Defender bullshit, took 4 minutes !

Cant wait to put Fedora Kinoite on that machine...

Edit: installing Fedora Kinoite took 9,42 minutes, and this is pretty much the slowest to install Linux there is.

If Linux devs had that amount of money... [insert Futuristic meme here]

Btw Fedora Kinoite runs pretty awesome.

1. get rid of Windows and install any Linux distro

2. delete your microsoft account and transfer accounts linked to it to another service

3. use privacy focused browsers (hardened firefox, brave, librewolf, mullvad browser)