If you’ve bought a laptop in the last five years or so it’s almost certainly capable, but many desktops (if they don’t include a Wi-Fi card) don’t have it installed by default. And of course, you’ll also need Bluetooth. You’ll also need a PC running Windows 10, with at least the Anniversary Update (August, 2016). To put it simply, the new version has Bluetooth, the old version doesn’t. The older design molds that button into the plastic on the top of the controller, the same part that has the shoulder buttons and triggers. There’s an easy way to tell: the newer design has its central “Xbox button” molded into the same plastic piece as the face buttons (like A, B, X, and Y). This way you can avoid infesting your PC with proprietary malware that comes with games and have a secure and private computer, while still playing games on an isolated box that can't do anything nasty because it can't connect to the Internet.First of all, you need to see if your Xbox One controller is the updated kind or the older one that needs a dongle.
Game consoles are about as user hostile as things get, they make Windows 10 (which is itself hostile to privacy) look like your best friend in comparison.īest option is to use an old PC running FOSS to browse the Internet, and forego ever connecting a game console to the Internet, unless you're actually into multiplayer games.
They also won't even let you browse the web until you sign up with them (hint hint: this should tell you what they are doing behind the scenes to your privacy). The truth is that it doesn't make sense to use one of these game consoles to browse the Internet, as they are swimming in closed, proprietary code, you're not allowed to install any free software, and they are engineered to resist auditing or inspection as to what they are actually doing.
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