ive had it disconnected from my win10 machine for 4 years now. broadband is not a utility and isnt likely to ever be so the expense to bring it out here in a consistently usable form is still prohibitive. those of us in the wilds of the world have to use sattelite or nothing outside of basic cell service
if youre dead set to keep windows, just disconnect it from the internet.
How viable that is depends on the person and what they use the computer for
i use mine as a bluetooth jukebox with 6000 tracks from 30s to 00s as well as an arcade machine thanks to mame 89 and 121.
People argue that Internet should be treated as a utility because it’s required so I’m not sure removing the Internet would really work.
ive had it disconnected from my win10 machine for 4 years now. broadband is not a utility and isnt likely to ever be so the expense to bring it out here in a consistently usable form is still prohibitive. those of us in the wilds of the world have to use sattelite or nothing outside of basic cell service