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[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 156 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the documents folder on the computer that Microsoft has in your house

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

How much longer till Microsoft uses Windows computers across the world as a botnet. For working on it's AI. Or some other bullshit.

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lmao its a matter of time before MS decides they need to DDoS someone so hard their data center explodes and they'll be ready to do it

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not sure if it's still a thing but I remember they also used windows to distribute updates to other windows PCs in a bittorrent-like fashion.

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Blizzard used to do that as well with world of Warcraft updates IIRC ( during vanilla )

[–] shadow@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They did, and we're really up front about it being an opt-in thing, if I remember correctly. Might have started that easy with Microsoft, too. But they can't resist enshitifying.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

When I joined in MoP it was still peer-to-peer by default

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

So does War Thunder. Makes sense from a CDN perspective.

[–] SpaceXplorer_8042@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago

It still does it. The only thing is that the awareness of this feature was spread in a way to make it sound like it was just stealing your internet for nothing (which looking at it one way, it was) so most people just turned it off.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly that can be a good thing, especially if you have more than one windows PC in your household, it's only downloading them once then sharing the updates about over the LAN

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Ya in the business world that's what WSUS is/was for

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

And you'll have to pay them a subscription fee to do it. If you don't pay, your computer is bricked.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

And how long before the come into your house, steal your stuff, and kick your dog?