Mag: ‘Bill Gates Gives Up on Climate Change’ – Gates signaling the end of a ‘major chapter in climate giving’ as ‘billionaires are pulling (climate) support at an alarming rate’ – Climate Depot
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Does anybody know if when using Windows on a computer but not paying for anything windows related: is windows/ Bill Gates profiting from it? Is it worth installing linux as a protest?

  • anime_ted@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    A virtual machine running Windows will act exactly like a bare metal machine, with all the telemetry and advertising and such.

      • anime_ted@lemmy.world
        1·
        10 hours ago

        That would depend on how directory and clipboard sharing are configured. There are some potential problems if the user is looking to share files between the VM and the host.