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		jstanley 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings (2... > What would be an example of a necessary network call that an ideal OS [...] has to perform on its own? Syncing the clock with NTP?

hulitu 6 days ago [–]

> Syncing the clock with NTP?

So every app, instead of querrying the OS, shall make a network call, to get the time from an NTP server ?

jstanley 6 days ago | [–]

I don't understand how you got that. The question was about network calls that an OS would perform on its own.

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