YSK: Windows 11 sends telemetry data straight to third parties on install.

• blokada

  485 3,018 8.3 Shell

  The official repo for Blokada apps.

  

Blockada 5 is free, and runs a local VPN server on your phone, and then tells your phone to connect to itself. This forces all internet traffic through Blockada, who can then refuse to resolve certain DNS entries, just like the Pihole.

• ThisIsWin11

  95 5,097 0.0 C#

  Discontinued The real PowerToys for Windows 11

  

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• pop-os-rootfs

  148 2 10.0 Shell

  Discontinued Unmodified, repackaged liveOS rootfs

  

• Rufus

  548 26,835 8.7 C

  The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

For creating an install USB of Windows 11, you'll want to use Rufus. Easy to use, free, open source.

• wirehole

  83 4,554 5.1

  WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.

This is the repository that I use: https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

• docker-pi-hole

  203 7,809 7.8 Shell

  Pi-hole in a docker container

  

Then just follow some setup instructions like this. Here's the more official instructions, but I needed the dumbed down version to get started.

• budgie-extras

  50 164 7.8 Vala

  Additional Budgie Desktop enhancements for user experience

  

If you were a fan of Windows 7 - install Ubuntu Budgie. I have been running it since Windows 7 and it is rock solid.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• winutil

  83 11,777 8.6 PowerShell

  Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility - Install Programs, Tweaks, Fixes, and Updates

This. Ditch the bloat and telemetry, tweak as desired. I run this on every fresh windows install at work. https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

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