I wish I was a billion dollar company who gets away with stuff like this. Just generally break people’s systems, add spyware, lie to users, treat them like shit.
All while making even more money and my stocks keep on going up, because AI, Ai, Ai…
I removed Recall just fine and now my Windows environment is Linux
Just install Linux, get it over with, more away from the clutches of Microsoft, use a system that is free and easy to work with.
Yeah, Linux is not perfect, nothing is. Might Linux require you in some cases to do some extra work? Maybe. Windows does not? Did you read this post? Did you read the countless other posts where Microsoft makes your life harder on purpose, triest to spy juuuust a little harder on you? Where Microsoft tries to fuck you over, yet again? Where Microsoft for the Nth time purposefully and willfully ignored security threats to save money or face, allowing even the US government to be hacked cuz better for Microsoft?
Seriously, it’s like watching a woman with a best up face defending her husband, he isn’t that bad, or if I leave I will be without this thing I need, omg, what will I do?
Just. Leave. Switch to linux, and be done with this shit
Yeah I have no clue why people think this is how they deserve to be treated.
It’s like Nadella wants people to stop using windows.
Microsoft is certainly doing an excellent job driving away Xbox users. What else do they have? Azure maybe?
So, some important context: you can disable Recall still. The only thing you can’t do is delete the files for it.
So it’s another potential attack surface for malware to target, something that Microsoft could enable in an update (so use Group Policy to disable it, they way they give companies with legal requirements to do so properly), and some space on your harddrive wasted.
This is NOT Microsoft requiring people to enable Recall for Explorer to work.
Still an egregious amount of bullshit, but not as much as the headline might lead you to believe.
This is NOT Microsoft requiring people to enable Recall for Explorer to work.
yet ™️
I’m wondering how the dod is going to fix this. I’ll have to look at their stuff files.
This is what we get for no longer being the paying customer (that and a quasi Monopoly).
I use mint on my laptop, steam runs great, but have to keep windows on the desktop because I need to run Ableton, lack of pro audio is the thing that’s holding me from full Linux right now…
Reaper works great on mint. Plus yabridge to use your windows plugins.
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Are you listening to yourself? Why are you even using this shite? You pay for being screwed over, bit don’t worry everyone, we can unsabotage the crap we paid for!
Switch to Linux already, come to the dark side, we have cookies.
Ona more serious note: there are literally less reasons every day to stick to windows. Games? Most , ir not damn near all work fine or better on linux. Photoshop? Run it in a VM if you must, away from the rat of your work, but at least stop paying Microsoft money FFS. Yes, actively pirate windows if you must.
I’m so fucking tired of people writing how they spend so much time to restore their paid product to a barely functional level, then complain about Linux being too complicated.
My literal last experience installing both lonic and windows was 25 minutes for Linux (that includes downloading the iso and burning it on a USB) and 7 grueling hours spread out over 4 days with countless failed attempts to install windows, BIOS metssing, trying different ISO burner programs, with the final attempt taking well over an hour to complete, passing countless “BUY MORE, ALLOW US TO SPY, GIVE US MORE MONEY, YOU WILL USE THIS SERVICE!” screens. Then Linux just worked and windows still was fucking me over.
Why do people put up with this? Just use Linux, get it over with. So much less pain.
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“I really would like to switch to Linux, bUT muH gaMEz!”
Like, just get a console or a Steam deck and tell MS to piss off. Until their market share plummets noticeably, they’re going to continue this crap.
You don’t want to play on Linux? Get a steam deck… Which runs on Linux! 😀
Ingenious.
I am a Mac user at home. I use windows for work, like most of us. But I keep reading all these articles and thinking, “Boy, I sure hope my company’s IT Dept. is on top of this.”
