Okay. A little background story is needed:
At the beginning of this month I finally installed Windows 10 on my mother's computer. This was overdue because Windows 8.1 was long out of support and the installation bloated and full of 100s of experiments – last year even related to old DRM rubbish.
Setting up Windows 10 (have done it a few times before) is like going to war with your own computer until all the garbage is deactivated and the bloat uninstalled. Have not yet ever seen Windows 11. Maybe next year. None of our PCs has the needed TPM (not interested in workarounds).
My mum is a passionate player of solitaire (and was unhappy because the daily challenges didn't work for Windows 8.1 version of Microsoft Solitaire anymore). Luckily the new version is working great and offers even more challenges and includes an RPG like experience points system. All working despite nagging once a day to sign in and sync with cloud and such nonsense (How about "NO!" ?)
Sitting at my Ubuntu laptop after having upgraded the OS from 20.04 to 22.04, I activated Ubuntu Pro for the first time after finding out this extended update functionality is free for up to 5 private PCs. It made some trouble and at first but now:
Promises updates until 2032 for more or less all packages. Nice!
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What do the two have to do with each other? While encountering a problem with activating the Livepatch functionality, searching online, trying things… my mum suddenly said: "Sina, Solitaire just played an ad video!", which it never did in the few weeks we have it. Coincidence? No! I deactivated Pi Hole in order to find out if Livepatch had a problem due to some overblocking (was not the case). But then I noticed 66% of all DNS queries in the local network were blocked by Pi Hole and the software rate limited the Windows PC days before to 1000 queries a minute.
Are you nuts, Microsoft!? → Stop spamming my DNS server!
I didn't screenshot yesterday, there were A LOT(!!) higher numbers in few minutes of using Solitaire, but I put these servers in the local hosts file to prevent the Windows 10 machine from flooding the DNS server with senseless queries from now on. Blocking locally was/is successful.
Since this moment Solitaire played the same ad video over and over and over again. Every few minutes. Until I found out it had shit some temporary cache files onto the SSD – Normal video files which worked in VLC. Deleted them → gone. Never have fun withoutcondom Pi Hole.
At the beginning of this month I finally installed Windows 10 on my mother's computer. This was overdue because Windows 8.1 was long out of support and the installation bloated and full of 100s of experiments – last year even related to old DRM rubbish.
Setting up Windows 10 (have done it a few times before) is like going to war with your own computer until all the garbage is deactivated and the bloat uninstalled. Have not yet ever seen Windows 11. Maybe next year. None of our PCs has the needed TPM (not interested in workarounds).
My mum is a passionate player of solitaire (and was unhappy because the daily challenges didn't work for Windows 8.1 version of Microsoft Solitaire anymore). Luckily the new version is working great and offers even more challenges and includes an RPG like experience points system. All working despite nagging once a day to sign in and sync with cloud and such nonsense (How about "NO!" ?)
Sitting at my Ubuntu laptop after having upgraded the OS from 20.04 to 22.04, I activated Ubuntu Pro for the first time after finding out this extended update functionality is free for up to 5 private PCs. It made some trouble and at first but now:
Promises updates until 2032 for more or less all packages. Nice!
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What do the two have to do with each other? While encountering a problem with activating the Livepatch functionality, searching online, trying things… my mum suddenly said: "Sina, Solitaire just played an ad video!", which it never did in the few weeks we have it. Coincidence? No! I deactivated Pi Hole in order to find out if Livepatch had a problem due to some overblocking (was not the case). But then I noticed 66% of all DNS queries in the local network were blocked by Pi Hole and the software rate limited the Windows PC days before to 1000 queries a minute.
Are you nuts, Microsoft!? → Stop spamming my DNS server!
I didn't screenshot yesterday, there were A LOT(!!) higher numbers in few minutes of using Solitaire, but I put these servers in the local hosts file to prevent the Windows 10 machine from flooding the DNS server with senseless queries from now on. Blocking locally was/is successful.
Since this moment Solitaire played the same ad video over and over and over again. Every few minutes. Until I found out it had shit some temporary cache files onto the SSD – Normal video files which worked in VLC. Deleted them → gone. Never have fun without
