stitchlips

they're editors, not system builders.

Could you not with the clickbait titles
It's dirty business on YouTube and it's dirtier here

I can't help but feel that this is trying to start an argument...

Red and black colour scheme Glossy plastic case with a gaudy angular designEnough LEDs to be seen from spaceOne or more obscenely overpriced GPUs

Oh no, they're moving and need to make time to make sure the videos are absolutely spotless.
 
The entitlement here..

I can't speak for everyone else, but I didn't choose Windows 7 over Windows 8 because of the way it looks (hell, I have a custom theme installed specifically to make it look like Windows 8) I chose it because of the mountain of compatibility issues I ran into while trying to Windows 8. It just didn't function properly for me. Windows 7 might be "outdated" but at least it works.

Great idea, terrible execution. It definitely has a lot of potential but right now, with that case, it's just an eyesore.

Any answer but Luke is objectively wrong. He is a fine piece of meat.

For the record, men can think other men are hot.

My biggest gripe is the elitism. Too many people around where it can feel like "Oh, you didn't buy an over-the-top PC, you peasant"
 
That, and the PCMasterRace joke in general has been done to death, I honestly wonder how many people even get the reference in the first place

PC master race kids are the worst thing about PC gaming.

Definitely the whole PC Mustard Race thing.

Most of the data collected is anonymous usage statistics and error reporting which has existed in Windows for as long as I can remember and I'm old. It's also optional. Beyond that there's some different stuff:
 
Location Data: If you want Cortana to be able to give you relevant information to your location you need this to be turned on... It can also be provided to apps so their experience can be tailored... Automatically spelling something colour instead of color if you're outside the US for example. News flash: every website you visit already knows your location unless you use a VPN or a proxy. Even if you turn off location services in your browser a website can make a decent guess based on your IP/ISP.... 09-29n3-n883.seattle.comcast-internet.com <- Hmm, wonder where this (imaginary) person lives. See here: http://mylocation.org/ - The location settings in Windows just determine if apps/Windows has permission to do what websites do anyway. Typed phrases / email / etc for better prediction: This is part of Cortana and the soft keyboard if you use touch. It lets Windows read stuff you write and have written to learn how you talk to better predict what you'll type next. Most of the people bitching about this one probably had no problem turning the exact same thing on inside SwiftKey on Andorid or agreeing to it in the Samsung Galaxy EULA because their keyboard does this too... But MS is evil right guys? Better Cortana results: You can let Microsoft track how you search to give you better results. Guess what, Google is already doing this to you when you use Google. When you Google search "homoeopathy" whether the top results are about hows it's bullshit or how it's the best thing ever depend on your search habbits... Same shit, different service.  OneDrive: If you store stuff on OneDrive Microsoft can see it... duh? If you store stuff on Dropbox, Dropbox can see it...  if you fill out your Outlook profile Microsoft has that information... again... duh? Shared WiFi Passwords with Friends: If this is turned on you can OPTIONALLY share passwords to networks you frequent (on a one by one selectable basis) with friends in your contact list. One toggle turns this feature off but while it's on it doesn't just send your WiFi passwords to everyone you have to tell it to share the password for a given network. The EULA is scary: Have you ever read an EULA before? Nothing is really different with the Windows EULA now but because of all the online content it contains verbiage from the Outlook EULA, the XBox EULA, the Bing EULA, and so on that you've probably already agreed to elsewhere anyway. Windows can now just do things you used to have to go to the websites to do. There are 1.25 billion Windows PCs running today... No one is sitting down and looking at this data and going "Oh look, Bob searched for D-Cup Titties on Google Images again but his wife shops for A-Cup bras on Amazon..." They reserve the right to aggrigate data though so someone in the Cortana department could conceivably see "It looks like the mid-west uses Cortana for restaurant recommendations 25% more often than the east coast." They don't care about your individual habits. Any non anonymous tracking is just to provide a better service which is something Google, Bing, Android, Apple/Siri, and so on are all doing already. People need to take their damn tin foil hats off / stop trolling. If you're concerned crank up your privacy settings but no one is creating a dossier on you and if the feds wanted any of that info about you they'll get it even if that means a warrant where they physically take the computer because you were too paranoid to connect it to the internet. 
 
It's always weird... People will be like "I don't want Microsoft to know my personal information" and then turn around and buy something from the Microsoft store and fill out their billing address and credit card info. Uhm... You just gave them your personal information? Or they don't want Microsoft to know their search habbits but it's fine if Google knows even though Google is where you search for your "octo porn" and Cortana is where you search for "Control Panel."

Pretty much 24/7. I usually leave it running overnight downloading files or working on long encoding queues. Even when it's just idling I tend to leave it on when I go to bed because I've grown accustomed to the "white noise".

Privacy settings disable lots of them. Use FTP for filesharing, use your own servers for communication (teamspeak ssl server) instead of skype.
 
The only information microsoft gets out of me is my outlook mail. But the only information they get out of that is what i'm buying, so they can send me fine-tuned adds that get blocked by adblock plus +)
 
Also the OP sucks. Very tinfoil-hat-ish juvinile writing. So edgy it should wear a safety harness.

Nobody understands how computers work. They're alien magic.

An unpopular opinion of mine: I don't see much of a value in overclocking ... and therefore have never really been interested. I play all my games at 1080p (another unpopular thing lolol) so I just don't see much difference in like a ~10 fps boost when you're getting 150fps anyway. Im sure if I played games at 4k then I would care a bit more, but as of right now, overclocking is irrelevant to me. 
 
However, I often under clock my hardware to reduce power consumption. Why pay more for power when you don't really need to?

Woosh

I have no complaints about it. I use the Metro skin to make it look nicer. 

This does not apply to windows 10, seriously does no one read the articles anymore?
 
Here is a list of services those conditions apply to:
 
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servicesagreement/?s=ecym#serviceslist
 
IF you look closely you will see it applies to xbox and windows games and xbocx live,  it is basic DRM, nothing new.

"using unauthorized hardware peripheral devices"    What??  I don't need anyone's permision to plug whatever I want to my PC.

No I don't want to inflict damage upon myself because LMG denied a silly idea.

Did a double take when Justin pulled out that MSI GPU and said he had no idea what model it was. I have that exact card sitting on my desk right now.  :lol:

I liked it...
Then again I don't watch WAN Show for actual news...

The argument that "if you have nothing to hide, why would you care?" is complete bullshit. On that logic, you should let the police just walk into your house on a weekly basis and turn it upside down searching for anything illegal because you don't have anything to hide!
 
It's the principle behind it and what it can lead to in the future.