My computer is very smart.
I mean, hello, it’s a Google machine.
You can’t get smarter than that.
Early this morning, upon first firing up my computer, I noticed a bit of
sluggish behavior on its part.
My computer does not drink coffee, so that could not account for
the lethargy.
As I ponk-ponked at the
keyboard repeating commands to no avail, a window popped-up and warned me of
high disk usage by “Compatibility Telemetry.”
Wow.
That sounded like a really smart thing going to work.
I stopped poking my computer in the face for a couple minutes and
let it wake up. Once my machine seemed
to respond normally, I Googled “compatibility telemetry.”
Turns out compatibility telemetry is a spy. Yep. A
spy built right into Widows 10. Compatibility
telemetry collects and regularly reports software usage, performance, and
diagnostic data to the Microsoft mothership.
The idea here, apparently, is to root out potential software problems.
Hello, Windows 10, I found your problem. It’s called compatibility telemetry.
—Mitchell Hegman
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