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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Pop-OS for the win! Woo!

#pop_os #linux #gnome #win #windows11 #recall

@nixCraft@mastodon.social [unchecks box for 'recall' feature]
fixed

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It’s unbelievable…

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I haven’t had a windows pc in 20 years, but I have an Xbox. I do these daily searches & things for rewards points, often in bing or edge, & I really despise it every time. It’s always broken or failing in some way & it’s a benign, nothing of a task. I would die a slow painful death if I had to do anything like work or business on this OS!

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social ... I have one PC loaded with 11 as a sort of testbed device.

After reading about this last night, I ordered new SSD's and it will absolutely have a fresh Linux install by the weekend.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social What are some good user friendly alternatives?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social reading this is making me mad, cos now I have to learn how to unix.
The "right, that does it" point is reached

@nixCraft@mastodon.social This is when you switch to Linux. If anyone reading this doesn't know what distro to use, go to distrochooser.de

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This is the best Windows feature yet. My parents agreed to try out Linux for the first time because of it. Thank you Microsoft <3

@nixCraft@mastodon.social So, if it's part of CoPilot; would uninstalling CoPilot remove everything, including recall?

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The problem is getting businesses off of Windows.

Treadmill inertia is hard to stop.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Epic Fail right there. I might install Linux Mint instead of paying for Windows 11.

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I have Linux Mint for about 15 years and I'm very very happy with it !!!

but you may prefer Windows !

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This guy will probably include a Recall remover sooner or later. Winaero Tweaker so far does not seem to have one, but probably will too.

I'm just freezing my Windows partitions at Win 10 Pro and not letting them 11 themselves.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social can one of you IT managers or related explain to me whether Recall is baked in #Windows11 per se, or whether it is dependent only on #Copilot+ being enabled? I am confused by this from @theverge "Security researchers initially found that the #Recall database wasn’t encrypted. #Microsoft is now making the AI-powered feature an opt-in experience instead of on by default, encrypting the database, and authenticating through Windows Hello."

@nixCraft@mastodon.social HIPAA violation

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I'm just presuming Winaero Tweaker will have a way to cripple it. I need to give that crew some money.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social It is called “Recall”. How can they recall Recall?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social no one should be moving to the new Windows OS. It is essentially the US government and mass surveillance. Linux is not that hard anymore.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social MSDOS must reborn! It was best from microsoft

@nixCraft@mastodon.social though you can switch it off, and it will only be on certain pcs too, so called co pilot enabled pcs with certain chips in them.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social How do you remove this crap?

Working anywhere they use Windows you have no choice.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I'll never install Windows 11.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social As always, switch to Linux

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That is "making profit". By any mean.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I always knew that something is wrong with Windows. Seriously. Glad that my computer isn't even able to be updated to Windows 11. If I have too, I'll stick to even the outdated versions of Windows 10.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Linux isn't an option for me, so it's a choice between greedy company A and greedy company B. 🤷

@frog67@tweesecake.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social That article goes back to September 15. This is from Microsoft itself and is dated September 27th. It states that Windows Recall can be removed; it also gives a very extensive explanation of the "feature"..

@nixCraft@mastodon.social This is kind of deceptive language, no? It can be disabled. That's functionally equivalent?

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Well, many people will just say that they have nothing to hide.....
Totally ignorant of everything they do hide.

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My next computer will likely be full Linux Mint.

#privacy #security

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I'm using W10 Pro on the netbook and mini desktop and already that one has become a full job to keep it tamed.
It was removing all the unwanted gaming crap, the advertising s***, the 'ET phone home', the 'You should backup in OneDrive', etc, etc...
It is that some software I need doesn't have an alternative on Ubuntu, sigh!

@nixCraft@mastodon.social so if I understand correctly, it's opt-in (not running by default), but can't be uninstalled
Which I think is very microsoft. Tons of stuff on windows can't be uninstalled

(Like, I agree linux is better, but I don't think recall changes anything if it's how microsoft say it works. Ofc if they're lying it's something else)

@nixCraft@mastodon.social just recall win64 with #fdisk or #gparted after dataBQ then choose a #POSIX #OS

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social urgh for fucks sake why can't they just stop pushing bullshit features?