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Yeah, but you need to factor in the distance to the transmitter. Going to add at least a few microseconds to your time accuracy!

Right! Just to prove a point, I am going to make an NTP enabled rolex, and sync it to my microsecond accurate local NTP server! :P

Setting up online accounts and allowing login via online accounts is fine. Forcing the use of an online account to use an operating system is not OK. They are actively blocking workarounds people use to setup their machine with a local account only.

Providing an easy (perhaps upon installation or first login) method to enable full disk encryption is a good thing. Automatically doing it without user intervention is not.

I would say that enabling it by default and offering a way to disable it before it happens on a laptop makes sense. I have bitlocker enabled on my laptop. But I cannot see any real reason to put it on my desktop. The number of cases where bitlocker on my desktop makes sense are too few to bother with the potential for problems it brings.

The two things are also linked, I suspect they will tie in your bitlocker unlock keys to the microsoft account they force you to login with on computer/windows setup. Should you lose access through any means you could lose access to your account, you're one misclick/hardware change away from bricking your system.

I also wonder, say for example your Microsoft account becomes banned/deleted through some obscure TOS violation and your PC doesn't have any local accounts configured. Are you locked out of your PC?

I'm not anti microsoft. I'm anti a lot of their recent actions, and cynical about their overall intentions regarding them.

Also on the 7800X3D. I think I switched at just the right time. I've been on Intel since the Athlon XP. The next buy would have been 13/14th gen.

Hmm, the only issue I had was because it was using the DoH (which I don't have a local server for). Once I disabled that, it was fine.

Oh. Internal hosts, I just setup on my own DNS.. No need for that. Printer, can't say I've ever had a problem.

Yeah, I don't really have a use at home for mDNS. None that I can think of, anyway. Pretty sure I was using it before MDNS was a thing.

They (the service that provides both web protection and logging) installs their own root certificate. Then creates certs for sites on demand, and it will route web traffic through their own proxy, yes.

It's why I don't do anything personal at all on the work laptop. I know they have logs of everything everyone does.

Well, it is kinda true. Many old games I had on my phone that were free and didn't have ads, in the last few years have received updates to do literally nothing, but include ads. So "these days" is the case for some.

What if I told you, businesses routinely do this to their own machines in order to make a deliberate MitM attack to log what their employees do?

In this case, it'd be a really targetted attack to break into their locally hosted server, to steal the CA key, and also install a forced VPN/reroute in order to service up MitM attacks or similar. And to what end? Maybe if you're a billionaire, I'd suggest not doing this. Otherwise, I'd wonder why you'd (as in the average user) be the target of someone that would need to spend a lot of time and money doing the reconnaissance needed to break in to do anything bad.

Sorry. I chose .local and I'm sticking to it.

For clarification, my radio has inline fuses right at the start of the positive and negative wires. If you've ever seen wires melted into people's carpet because they didn't have a fuse on their hardwired car electrics... Yeah.