Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows. I am posting just to help anybody that doesn’t know. This is like a creepy wire tap. If you are actually using Windows 11, make sure to disable and or reduce telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy). If that actually helps, I am sure there are more ways they send data back but the video link is a simple how to for the telemetry. Here is more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtg_s1GQiMU
I had difficulty understanding the error messages, mainly. “Warning: this xibstop is a fleng. Do you want to flargle you shmoigen at 0000HgvbXX44? This cannot be undone”
Of course, I couldn’t actually google what it meant without running into a whole load of other terminology I didn’t understand, least of all because my WiFi hadn’t kicked in yet.
Basically, you need to put the work in to understand the context of what’s going on. With Windows, this took me about a year when I first got a PC. I imagine it’ll be the same with Linux.