Microsoft is just a bug.
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Microsoft confirms it's just a bug.
The jokes are becoming reality, I swear...
The fact that they won't allow users to uninstall it should suggest some things about their motives.
It's just too easy to dunk on MS these days. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
It's like shooting fish in a barrel.
Twice. At point blank range. To the back of the head. With an elephant gun.
Or a mortar. Point blank.
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it's not for the end user, it's for the end user's boss who wants to monitor all their worker drones' productivity
It's not for the end user's boss, it's there to collect data for the future Microsoft user behaviour analysis tools that will be sold to the end user's boss's boss.
it can be for 2 things
but it's definitely not for the benefit of anyone who's forced to use it
Why measure performance metrics in terms of output when we can just 1984 everyone’s workstation.
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They have better tools for that.
User choice is an accident. Got it.
Linux is the future.
not until Linux bros find a way to appeal to newcomers. being curious about Linux is the worst user experience anyone will ever have about any tech related issue.
You aren't trying to suggest that experienced Linux users are a bunch of arrogant fart-sniffing a-holes who expressly enjoy gate-keeping inexperienced users by being as condescending and unhelpful as possible?
I tried talking about how absolutely horrendous their behaviour was recently, pointing out how completely unhinged and self-defeating it is, and someone actually literally said that this was a good thing because Linux is hard work and they should keep away people that aren't experts.
And first of all, if that's right it's an admission that linux will never succeed, and secondly I agree that's the effect but I think that's bad actually.
I honestly think there must be at least some amount of psyops in the community poisoning the discourse for everyone.
Microsoft running psyops to keep the Linux community as toxic as possible
Omg it really feels like that sometimes.
The youtubers who paint Linux as extremely unstable/not appropriate for gaming almost come across as sponsored by Microsoft. (Not to mention the overemphasis of the ubiquity of adobe suite users i.e. confirmation bias)
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Need to pair it with a stable, easy to use distribution and some good marketing and hardware too. At the end of the day, most people don’t want to spend their weekends scouring forums to understand how to fix some OS issue with a series of terminal commands.
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And has been for the last 30 years
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That’s okay, I hit the Windows uninstall button back in April. It’s been quite nice ever since!
...but was it the "Windows Uninstall" button...or the "format /dev/sda1 as ext4" button?
Nah I used the btrfs button
Mmm, butter... :)
Love me some btrfs, the snapshots have saved me a few times already...
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Is called “Windows” because they are always looking in at you. I have been on Linux since they announced recall, and their fucking one drive kept secretly uploading my desktop files! (Kept seeing sync icons, even with all that disabled). Since then I now have my wife, uncle, dad, friends, etc all running Linux now.
How? I have been trying to switch people to linux for over a year and failing
I gave them laptops, Linux mint pre-installed. I used to buy auction lots of broken laptops, so I got them for like $10 each. Threw in an SSD. It works as fast as a new machine for browsing the web and watching YouTube. I also pre-installed some common programs to get them started.
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But... But they got the good press of "at least you can uninstall". I hope whoever said that starts a bigger shit storm now.
Microsoft says it remains on track to preview Recall with Windows Insiders on Copilot Plus PCs in October, after the company has had more time to make major changes to Recall.
Just in time for Halloween. That'll be sure to give people a good scare.
OF course they had to do it in reverse: it's not a feature, it's a bug.
Altogether now children "It's a bug until...it's a feature!"
How will this work at an enterprise level? I can absolutely say that the company I work for cannot allow that kind of information to be harvested. Our clients would have a conniption. I also can't see our cyber security insurance covering that.
Don't worry, Microsoft will hide it in an obscure group policy so domain admins can disallow the "feature". That ensures that mom and pop shops who can't afford a full time security team still get targeted by their software.
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/me Laughs in Windows 10.
I'm still on windows ten. Currently trying to switch to Linux. What are your plans when end of life /support comes to Windows ten?
What are your plans when end of life /support comes to Windows ten?
Switch to Linux and run virtual machines when I need to use Windows.
Right now I don't quite have the drive to do it, but an end to support for Windows 10 would push me over the edge. I just can't stand Windows 11, not even because of all the bullshit but just the way it mandates the UI structure - last time I tried it my dealbreaker was that you can't just have it always display all taskbar icons, you have to manually force each one to show. If a new icon comes up, it will be hidden.
this one drove me nuts.
let me use the damn computer the way i want to. its mine, i paid for it. let me use small taskbar icons. let me remove the ads.
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Im in the same boat, I'll either move to some cracked version of windows without the recall bs, or more likely some linux distro.
There's no reason to trust any homebrew or cracked Windows ISO. Just go with Win 10 LTSC. All the bullshit is removed and it has support until 2027. MAS flawlessly activates it. Linux is indeed the better option, and I'll be heading that way soon enough.
I might try to setup Win 10 LTSC which has support until 2027, but I mostly use Mint these days. Would still like to avoid Win 11, even if I only use it for gaming.
/me Laughs in Linux
I'm sure I'll be there with you soon enough.
It is so strange to see people flexing $PREVIOUS_WINDOWS when $PREVIOUS_WINDOWS itself brought in egregious anti-features that are now normalized and accepted by average users as "not malware".
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How could that even happen? It was either never intended to ship outside of the User Experience Package alongside actual system apps or it was intended to be capable of being uninstalled during development.
Sounds like the employees did a little insubordination, good job employee we love you.
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