blackbonner opened this issue on Oct 21, 2023 ยท 9 posts
hornet3d posted Sat, 21 October 2023 at 7:33 AM
The only thing in that list that I use is my Xbox but then I am not the average Windows user I guess, the only social media I am involved in is here and one other 3D art site. I use LibreOffice as my Office 365 equivalent and, while I have not completely removed, Onedrive is configured in a way it leaves me alone. My cloud storage is taken care of by Acronis Cyber Home protect.
Having said all that I think this is just the way the world is going with half the world population happily giving their data away for free the big boys are used to knowing loads about everyone and making decisions for us. Does it worry me, well I think I could get bothered about it but I am of an age where I am writing the last few chapters of my life story so any impact will be minimal. My age also means I will have stopped driving before I am forced to use an EV for my mode of transport. I am retired on a couple of pensions so I cannot be sacked or made redundant and, while this does not make me bullet proof, it does result in me having a relaxed view on most things.
I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 - Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU . The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.