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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    Windows Reserved Bandwidth” is just a QoS Packet Scheduler. The Linux Kernel has this too. Equally difficult to disable on any system, because its assumed you will want to be able to download a file and surf the web at the same time.

    Do we know for a fact that the Windows marketing telemetry does not use any of this reserved bandwidth? Or are we just taking the vendor's word for that?

    I asked because 'reserving' is different than 'prioritizing'. Generally speaking, a QoS prioritizes, where what's being described by the title is reserving.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Microsoft: [implements a common OS feature]

    You: But can you prove it's not malware?

    That's just tinfoil hat paranoia.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

    Based on what they did with Win10 and 11, not paranoia at all.