These are ALL the listening ports and live connections on a freshly installed Linux system, this being DietPi. I dare you to do a tcpdump or netstat or whatever on a fresh Windows installation.

The ssh connection I actively chose to enable and the dhclient is a must have for hosts to dynamically get an IP address allotted, unless you set yours statically.

If you are struggling with privacy invading connections on your Windows system but don’t feel like you can or want to switch to Linux, may I suggest https://safing.io/download/

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    3 days ago

    I’ll check it out, one of the reasons I switched was I was so sick of Microsoft AntiMalware asking for new firewall permissions every other day, plus random svchost calls I have no idea about.