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

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    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.

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      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

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      DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:Recall
      

      Run that from an administrator terminal (right click start menu and select Terminal (Administrator)). You can also do it from Settings > Privacy > Recall.

      Those are the Microsoft-approved ways. If you don’t trust them, you can also just download a new iso and completely rip it off before install using something like ChrisTitus’ microWin.

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        Thanks for making it nice and user friendly… most of my elders go into a kind of fugue state when they see the terminal

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

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      I only need access to a terminal for my job, i would be so happy if i could run linux on my work laptop.

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

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      Same my only experience with windows (and w11) is at work (exception being my vr flight sim pc).

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        Is this a joke comment? Your experience is playing on MS OS, a flight sim which, assuming it’s the Flight Simulator, periodically sends data back and forth? on top of using it at work.

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          Is this a joke response to my comment? I play XPlane 11 and 12 and Aerofly FS4. Reread the original comment I replied to because you seem confused.

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    This this more of a byproduct of the design than anything.

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

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      You have to be a complete idiot these days to think everyone is able to use another solution

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      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.

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        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.”

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          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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            Don’t mention the hundred different engines out there, along with somethings you can do with one but not the other, so you have to research all of them. Also, you may have to install more stuff to get the engine to do other things you’re used to as well.

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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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            I get that part. But then we have to do better. We can’t just stand there and be like: “It is what it is.” And with “we” I mean society as a whole: manufacturers, users, educators, governments (tbh, it is astonishingly weird that it is legal to force ship literal spyware with bought hardware), floss community etc.

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        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.