That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows

Can't spell "copilot" without "cop".

Windows is malware. If you give the slightest shit about your privacy, switch ASAP

I literally only use Windows for video games these days and Steam OS is looking better and better for that.

Took this crap off my computer and installed Fedora as my daily. If I need to run windows I'll run it in a VM.

Even if Copilot was suspended, the idea was put into the heads of managers and executives. My work laptop current has three applications constantly locking files as they track everything I do and every file that gets touched and upload it all to the servers. Git now takes a ridiculous amount of time to check in and push files since it creates tons of small changes to the cached files that a the tracking applications block further changes or uploads until they can record the information. It takes about 30 seconds to a minute to check in a single small file. Something that used to take a second or two at most. Worst part is if I'm in a WebEx meeting, the fighting over caches in it and git and any other processes,often causes deadlocks that crash the machine. I'm constantly apologizing for being late for meetings because the laptop crashed and had to reboot. It's gotten to the point that they finally gave me a much faster laptop rather than just excluding cache and git folders and such from the tracking because the people who want literally everything tracked don't know what cache or git is, much less how much useless data they're gathering or how the AI that analyzes it all is going yo get distracted by the garbage and not find any useful data anyway. Microsoft needs to get in the game to push the others back out.

Fuuucking hell. I have to keep a laptop on win for work purposes and i just finished decrapifying 11 last night

I'm reading this on a Microsoft Surface that I flashed with Linux Mint. Quite satisfying!

Message to Microsoft:🖕

Is this legal in EU? I mean not the tool itself but just enabling it by default.

This is what forced me onto Linux for the first time, and permanently.

It's partly great, mostly fine, and 10% of the time god damn fucking annoying. Mostly having to learn the fucking game of thrones factions of installing things.

But I don't feel like there's a piece of shit company in my computer trying to completely ruin it, so it's a win. The positives outweigh the negatives, even as someone who wasn't really into the idea of switching.

But even if it was half as good, it would still be an improvement, given Microsoft destroying itself.

I'm certain this can be disabled in windows at any moment as without it loads and loads of criminal evidence would be available for discovery and litigation against the wealthiest people and businesses across the world.

A real fear is being a worker in a world with micromanagers inspecting your workweek, 3 second snapshots at a time.

Hey copilot - what was that website I found with the sweet ass interracial stepsibling fuckin? You know the one where that sis's ass popped just the right way? Not the one with the first-cousins. I gotta draw the line somewhere. I mean, that was ALSO great porn but I have pre-postnut clarity here and that kind of shit just aint what I need right now.

I just want to tip my fellow colleagues that need to use windows for their job (and also maybe have invested thousands in pc games).

This is my favorite tool for debloating and uncrappifying and more. If you have others please reply with yours. 😊

https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

I wouldn't be surprised if they get a class action suit over security/data violations.

Recall the time when Windows came on a DVD, had no Microsoft account option on install, no ads in settings nor in the startup menu, no AI slop.

It was still shit, but it feels shittier now, and harder to setup and configure in a way that's bearable.

Disable Recall with these instructions:

https://oracle-base.com/blog/2024/11/10/windows-recall-how-to-disable-spy-mode/

I always keep an old windows iso file just incase I need to use it.

Well this news helped motivate me to overwrite my Windows 10 install with Linux Mint as of yesterday. So far so good.

time for player 2 to join

I’m not going to use this myself but I don’t know why everyone’s complaining about it so much. It requires opt-in, it does all the processing locally, and if someone nefarious gets to the point they can read this stuff then they’ll already be able to record your screen, log keystrokes, etc. I expect it won’t be straightforward to view the data as well, it’s not just gonna be a folder full of jpegs.

I’m glad that people are actually trying to make interesting features still. OSs have been so boring years now, it’s good to see people actually trying to introduce standout features even if they are controversial. More of this I say.

Unfortunately most users don't care about privacy, they only move then (subscriptions) prices rises

Yay, now when your coworkers suggest getting some sushi and you use your laptop to look up the nearest restaurant, you're going to get a paperclip pop up saying "It looks like you're trying to get back to that tentacle porn hentai you nutted to last night. Would you like help with jerking off?"

No, it was chrome crashing. I dont use Windows

This is truly awful. Microsoft need to return to sanity. Awful awful awful.

I mean, I get that Microsoft is trying to compete with MacOS and its Time Machine software, but why not just start from there and add the other bits as optional to the user? lol

No offense, but isn't this kinda pointless considering most of use use android phones? And don't think Apple is any better either folks.