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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."
What a surprise, the spy software is spying on you.
Maybe by "sensitive information" they mean theirs.
Let me try: hunter5
Must be working, all I see is ●●●●●●●
bash.org ftw
I put on my wizard hat and robe.
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.
Prompt injection acrobatics via cortana playing sounds from a hacked speaker
steamOS cannot come any sooner for desktop
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.
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
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.
next PC upgrade won't feature any Intel or Nvidia, full AMD full glorious Linux under steamOS hopefully
There's so many others you can use right now.
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.
Since the first steam machine in 2008 it's all I've ever wanted....
I'm using bazzite for now in lieu of that
We all saw that coming.
Microsoft: there won’t be bugs
This isn't a bug. It is by design
You have to be truly an idiot these days to still be using Windows.
Or maybe that's all you know
That doesn't make you an idiot
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.
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.
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."
Good luck changing OS on every user's laptop in a Fortune500 organization to Linux and then managing policies for them.
I worked for F500 and didn't touch Windows once.
Edit: looked it up and actually I still work for a F500 😅 And still didn't touch Windows in like 20 years.
Cool, was it the same for all other employees there?
No.
That's my point.
Well, my point is: "Do I need to use Windows at your company?" Answer that with yes and I'm out.
Yes, that's very privileged, but at least if you have that privilege you should do it in my eyes. You will never get a change if companies do not recognise an increasing problem. "People do not want to work for us because they have to use unethical software."
And for me, the question is not about personal preference or something. For me, this question is literally: "Do you take part in promoting a monopoly, that spreads spyware, violates user privacy, and, thus, further fuels the ignorance of it."
In this analogy, no car dealer sells a Linux car and you'd have to rip out the engine yourself at home if you wanted one.
That's the perceived barrier to entry.
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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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Where else am I throw the computer, a wall?
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This this more of a by product of the design than anything.
Its almost like this was a bad idea to begin with.
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.
It's like those sextortion scam emails that say "we took pictures of you masturbating" except this time they'll really extract some poor guy's porn habits from their Recall database lmao
Microsoft really cares about security
As long as it doesn't get in the way of money
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Every year I'm happier and happier that I touch MS products only when paid to do so.
problems with their shit has been paying the bills here for over twenty-five years now.
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