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Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

If I want to save something I'll back it up myself. My attitude toward an OS remembering what I do: "We don't know each other and I was never here."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

What a surprise, the spy software is spying on you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Maybe by "sensitive information" they mean theirs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Must be working, all I see is ●●●●●●●

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I put on my wizard hat and robe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Although not the exact topic covered in the article, as you wouldn't necessarily be sending sensitive information like that to other people, but it's important to note that this means nothing you've sent before is safe.

It's not enough that from "now on" you don't send anything you wouldn't want Recall to capture, if you've already sent it and someone with Recall captures it then it's compromised. It's not just your own device that you need to worry about, it's also everyone you might contact or have ever contacted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Prompt injection acrobatics via cortana playing sounds from a hacked speaker

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

We all saw that coming.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

steamOS cannot come any sooner for desktop

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You don't need SteamOS. It's likely not going to solve any problems for you that aren't solved elsewhere. It'll be good for console-like devices, but just use a normal desktop distro for a desktop computer.

I like Garuda Dragonized for gaming. It comes set up with a lot of gaming stuff already, and makes it easy to install a bunch of other gaming related packages you may want.

Theres no need to wait for Valve. The problem is solved already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

eh? I tried gaming with lutris fairly recently and I'd call it far from solved.

it's in a better spot than a decade ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Im excited to live in that world.

Any game that relies on BS DRM like Denuvo that refuses to work for SteamOS can die in a fire.

Most of the are shitty multiplayer games anyways.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

next PC upgrade won't feature any Intel or Nvidia, full AMD full glorious Linux under steamOS hopefully

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

There's so many others you can use right now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Most of the distros run steam great out of the box. Our biggest problem is video card updates breaking crap. Linux Tech Tips scared a bunch of people off by not reading a warning message on an update then refusing to seek any help when something broke.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

Since the first steam machine in 2008 it's all I've ever wanted....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

I'm using bazzite for now in lieu of that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Microsoft: there won’t be bugs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

This isn't a bug. It is by design

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You have to be truly an idiot these days to still be using Windows.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or maybe that's all you know

That doesn't make you an idiot

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Or you're at work, or you need to collaborate with people who use Windows-only software. Or you bought a computer and it came with Windows, and you don't know about installing other operating systems.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

And as long as that group of people you just described continues to uncritically accept everything MS does, they have no motivation to do things differently.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I hate that argument so much. It's like picturing me incapable of choosing a car because I know nothing about them.

"Why did you buy that garbage?" "It was the first vehicle at the first car dealer I found."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you go to different car dealers you find many different cars so you have to look into their pros and cons before choosing one. If you go to different computer shops you find Windows computers, Macs and Chromebooks. Macs are very expensive and Chromebooks are very limited, so you buy a Windows machine. People don't even know what Linux is, and you can't really blame them. They just want a machine to do everyday stuff with, and not to have to invest too much time or money in finding one.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Where else am I throw the computer, a wall?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

What do you gotta be to think bajillions of people are idiots? Besides cripplingly cynical

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

This this more of a by product of the design than anything.

Its almost like this was a bad idea to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Man the first hackers to get their hands on that data are gonna get rich. Blackmail material, personal details, banking information, passwords, everything you could want.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Microsoft really cares about security

As long as it doesn't get in the way of money

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Every year I'm happier and happier that I touch MS products only when paid to do so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

problems with their shit has been paying the bills here for over twenty-five years now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

How happy are you to know your personal data is still going to be leaked because 90% of the services handling it are using MS Backdoor OS? If it's not going to be your bank it will be your work, if not your work, then it will be your government, and there will be no consequences because "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft®"™.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Is there a way to turn this off?

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