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by nyanpasu64 1094 days ago
Just saw vcvarsall.bat in the post. Did you know that the Visual Studio Command Prompt phones home to Microsoft? I tried installing Microsoft's build tools on Wine, then when I opened a VS command prompt from KDE I saw an error message, from Wine's PowerShell stub being used to run a telemetry script. Then I discovered the very same telemetry had been running every time I had opened a MSVC command prompt on Windows, as well as countless other telemetry operations in the Visual Studio IDE and updater itself.

I found a video on this topic at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORH5JfpPx88.