So Windows is trying to become Facebook?
Probably trying to cash in on some sweet intelligence agency and law enforcement funding for helping the government bypass the 4th Amendment by supplying the government with your data.
It used to be that all versions of windows were fine. Then Home was a mess and you needed Pro or above to stop being nannied. Now you’ll need Enterprise to not be nannied and spied on. The cost is completely worth it.
I do NOT blindly hate windows. It runs software today that existed 30 years ago. I haven’t had a real blue screen since my Win98 machine that was upgraded to XP. It just works, it works well, and gives my company life. Linux is a mess comparatively unless you want to tinker. And yes I also daily drive nix machines, and only fan bois don’t see how hassle free windows can be comparatively.
The big words are can be. Because out of the box, they’re making it worse and worse. I don’t have a Microsoft account, local only. And boy do they not like that. Enterprise doesn’t force updates at all, I can keep my machine up and running indefinitely like the old days. The only issue I have today with Win11 is the forced task tray “overflow” menu that nobody asked for and nobody wants. Currently no way to disable without hacks, and if it isn’t fixed soon then I’ll do that.
But this screen shotting malware cannot happen. I know there are many places where it legally cannot happen. Therefore there will have to be a way to disable it or install a version without it. And that’s what I’ll be getting.
If Microsoft sold a Windows 11 Platinum Edition 3000 for $2000 that just gave you all the knobs like XP and let you shoot yourself, I’d buy it. Totally worth it.
You don’t have to be a fan boy to have an opinion. Windows is not user friendly in any way. People just know it. My Linux desktops are more robust and hands off than my Windows ones. Of course that won’t apply to all situations.
I have never encountered a user oriented Linux experience that is more hands-off that Windows this decade.
My embedded Linux systems, sure. The Linux backends in a closed system, sure. But something that is interacted with, not a chance. People love to hate Microsoft but there is a reason why they have the install base they do.
Because they are the long term incumbent, with an effective monopoly, and endless pockets of money…
The OS is not special or great.
Me at work xith enterprise grade windows:
Right clicks.
40 seconds when I guess windows “defender” or some “protection endpoint” uploads the clicked item to some microsoft server, wakes up Bill Gates, waits for an “OK” before returning access to the computer (and displays the context menu).
Same if you dare look at c:
Suct great OS. So productivity. So tinker free.
BTW it was worse before I removed some items from the context menu by editing the registry.
That’s your corporate overlords screwing up your system. Not Daddy Gates. Yet.
Enterprise is something almost no standard corporate drone uses. The benefits are really for nerds and IT people. But it is a requirement for Xeon processors, and most of my machines are Xeon including my laptop.
The funny part is that you don’t even have to pay for it if you use the massgrave activator.
I have no problem paying for software at this point in my life. But I won’t pay for a subscription. And if I pay oodles of money, I’d hope Microsoft would opt me out of all the crap they hope to make money on with an install base like ads and inevitably copilot data sales.
Windoes gonna trash some SSDs
Crossposting, as beehaw.org has defederated from lemmy.world and it seemed interesting.
Why did the defederate?
It was a while ago. Apparently they thought their vision was more to be a self contained forum than connected to everyone else and also that it was “safer”.
As far as I remember they couldn’t manage all the problematic content, especially comments with the limited resources and bad moderation tools in Lemmy to deal with the huge amount of people from the biggest instance.
I’m on a very small one and am still federated.
Get big and it’ll come there too. Lemmy is pure internet, for better or worse.
I’m staying a single user instance for a couple of reasons.
That makes sense. I recall some people saying it was contrary to the ethos of the Fediverse but I don’t blame Beehaw. It’s perfectly legitimate to use Lemmy as a self contained forum or to restrict federation as the admins see fit.
“Recall screenshots are only linked to a specific user profile and Recall does not share them with other users, make them available for Microsoft to view, or use them for targeting advertisements. Screenshots are only available to the person whose profile was used to sign in to the device,” Microsoft says.
It’s conspicuous that this statement talks only about the raw screenshots, not any data derived from them (such as aggregated data, inferred data, or even just slightly reprocessed data). So Microsoft could do any minor reworking of the data and send it off to the cloud for their own purposes, while technically complying with the above.
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now when have Microsoft ever lied before? I mean, other than the falsified evidence they submitted during their legal battle with the US Department of Justice.
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Ministry of truth is officially scared about what you know because you have seen it so it maps everything you ever saw and puts it in context to forge a formidable cherrypicked narrative. Leave windows. Go foss.
Why do I hear all the teenage boys screaming in horror?
Recall won’t take snapshots of […] DRM-protected content.
At least the movie industry will survive this unscathed. Thanks Microsoft. 👍
I guess im gonna have bee movie playing on a loop as my desktop background.
🤮
If its processed locally and sent nowhere, why is this a concern? Unless otherwise.
The non-fun answer is that they’re most likely just using the default screenshot mechanism, which already blocks that. Other programs like KeePassXC, which also hides itself from screenshots and recordings (unless allowed) will probably not be included either.
locally until the next automatic update.
Because I absolutely do not trust microsoft to not have some information going back to a server somewhere.
I think you’ve misunderstood the comment above. They’re asking why snapshotting DRM-protected content would be a problem if everything stays local, implying that since it’s a problem it does not stay local
Yes.
Oh yes my bad, brilliant point
KeepassXC seems to register as DRM protected content (I think…) for me, kills moonlight streams while it’s up so at the very least using a password manager (which you already should be using) would be protected?
I already daily drive debian on my lab computer and laptop, guest I’ll be swapping my desktop over in the not to distant future…
No more ventures into pornhub’s 258 page to find the one video you watched 6 months ago.
they fixed that 30 years ago, it’s called browser history /s
It also allows users to search through teleconference meetings they’ve participated in
I think that this may not be legal for users to have their computer doing in some states. Some states require you to notify the other party before recording phone or videoconference sessions. Maybe if it’s not saving audio, it’s okay?
EDIT: Yeah, someone on the original beehaw post raised that issue as well.
Go fuck yourself Microsoft.
records everything you’ve done
It records the past!? Holy shit! That’s amazing!
How is this not bigger news? How does it do it?
Holy fucking nope. I wasn’t planning on getting Windows 11 and this serves as a great reminder to make the transition to Linux. I’ve been thinking of picking up a raspberry pi 5 as my next desktop. Anyone want to share their experiences doing something similar?
I would personally avoid the pi 5 for desktop computing purely because it only has micro/mini (whatever they call them) HDMI ports, imo they are kinda awful.
Also do note that being an arm device you will be limited on proprietary software and even among foss stuff will likely have to compile some things yourself.
(P.S. you probably don’t mind if you are considering such a device, but PC gaming on arm devices will take much more setup and the performance might be disappointing when using a x86 emulator like FEX)
Lol the little TV attached Lenovo PCs are pretty good for small desktops.
Yeah, honestly I don’t see the use case for pi as a desktop.
It’s cool to have it as a second device running little things you want to have up more of the time, but the desktop performance would be pretty limiting imo for most people.
Wouldn’t go for a full ARM64 system (yet anyway). Too many software incompatibilities. You can pick up the lenovo m-series tiny machines used for dirt cheap and have full x86 compatibility and way faster specs + expandable storage/ram for (m93p tiny, m700, m720 etc). They’re a little bigger than a rpi and use a bit more power but it will save a ton of headaches.
Making the switch to any linux distro is a big jump already, you don’t want to create unnecessary problems.
That’s a good point. I hadn’t factored in the processor architecture at all, whoops. I’ve already got plenty of Linux experience though, so I just need to find hardware that can support a wide variety of software. Thanks for the recommendations!
You can get a decent five year old ThinkPad off ebay that will run circles around an rpi5 for most tasks. The price, after case, power supply, and storage won’t be that far off either.
The pi is very weak. Just get a normal desktop. They have small form factor ones.
Honestly with how that company is going you might be better off getting a cheap rig and installing your favourite flavour of Linux. I’m still salty their implementation of surround sound and video decoding can’t use the actual power of the chip it’s running on.
My kids use odroid c4 devices. Great for browsing and videos, absolutely no gaming unless it’s old and native (quake 2, half life, …) or browser games like blockpost. They play the bejeezus out of that. All in all pretty good choice. It being both Linux and arm reduces the attack surface a bit considering these are kids with internet access.
If you like the form factor but prefer x86_64 then you could look into UP board series.
Remeber when Microsoft banned some Xbox players for screenshots they took in singleplayer, local games? Because it turns out all screenshots were uploaded to the cloud without properly informing users?
Naaah… no way they’re going to do that again.
I don’t (never played Xbox til the end of its lifecycle) what did they do? 👀
That’s not even the best part. The best part is that some games will take screenshots automatically, by default. Some of the photos were then also uploaded automatically to Xbox cloud. Their automated system then banned players for sharing “prohibited” content.
Recently this happened with Baldur’s Gate 3.
https://www.slashgear.com/1511121/xbox-auto-upload-feature-how-turn-off-avoid-banned/
we do a bit of entrapment
I find the concept interesting anyways, does anybody know of an open source alternative?
