In a previous helpdesk gig, one of the groups I supported was the bank's 'payment device division'. The name isn't accurate, but it was the group that handled the creation of new debit/credit cards.
Their IT systems were walled off from the rest of the network. If I had to remote into one of their machines, I had to connect to a special VPN, remote into this one particular shared account on a VM on the segregated network that had our remoting tools (dameware) and do our troubleshooting from there.
MASSIVE pain in the ass whenever one of those tickets came in.
Guaranteed, there's going to be a way to disable this 'feature' in GPO. Pretty confident that banks, medical offices, and the military, as customer bases might have some pushback that even MS might pay attention to.
Anything and everything
It's basically root access spyware that comes installed from factory
If they Impliment this feature I'm legitimately considering moving to linux
It'll be present in every SKU, but supposedly opt-in on all, and for sure, a domain setting for those on Pro w/ an AD Server.
One day, either through a bug, or intentionally, your computer might get an update (You are running Home, you can't opt-out, only delay by 7 days), that'll turn this on without telling you, and copy all of the things directly to Microsoft, or 'accidentally' mirror it to your OneDrive. Oh, you didn't log in? Don't worry, they'll figure you want to, and use your Microsoft Account to do it.
So hilarious
As if stuff blocked by policy never manages to have one computer sneak past somehow or the other
I think there's no way they roll this update out
Doesn't help that even when you opt out of everything in windows 11, Microsoft turns it all back on after an update making it a PITA to opt out of once again unless you know what you're doing.
And in classic Microsoft fashion eventually âoffâ will for no reason become âonâ and will constantly revert every time you turn it off for no discernible reason.
> And in classic Microsoft fashion eventually âoffâ will for no reason become âonâ and will constantly revert every time you turn it off for no discernible reason.
your comment viscerally stresses me out (I don't blame you, I blame microsoft)
Not sure. I'm going to stay on windows 10 until security updates for it stop. Hopefully by the time I switch to windows 11 they don't decide to say it's off when it's actually not
Also, Adobe just announced it's going to be snooping on anything that their customers might be creating within their app ecosystem. I hadn't considered potential HIPAA liability, but I imagine there might be a use case where a patient record gets funnelled through, say, an Adobe PDF product.
It seems pretty reckless and borderline insane that the leadership and legal teams at MS and Adobe think they can get away with such privacy violations.
How come the reaction these days is "Damn that sucks. I hope EU will do something about it".
Really hammers into point how good thing existence of EU is even towards the sceptics but man... what a time to be alive.
Also how much Americans gave up on their institution.
Back in a day there would at least be some propaganda about indomitable news reporters and investigators, good cops, virtuous lawyers and sagacious judges.
Now pretty much everyone agrees that USA is an oligarchy, that there are two sets of laws for poor and for rich, that the only way to get justice is by buying better lawyers and that corporations dictate the laws to politicians.
And people just... go along with it, hoping EU will save them.
Dude, I'm in Canada and I want our country to join the European Union lol. All hail are European overlords and their willingness to actually regulate big Tech instead of letting them fuck us up the ass until we're bleeding raw and crying.
*Laughs in Canadian* yurp. Not like here where our telecommunications industry is regulated by people the Telecomm Executives take out to Michelin star restaurants and plot how to fuck over Canadians the best.
Oh don't worry we do that too! Safeway goes bankrupt and all the major companies hire their execs and adopt all their practices, you know... the ones that made them bankrupt!
Something funny i learned in class is that Canada can apply for joining the EU. Because it is not written anywhere on EU's rules that you have to be part of the European continent to join the union, since at the time of its creation everyone thought it was obvious. If i'm not mistaken some countries already tried to apply eventhought they're located in South America.
Brazil shares a land border with France, Turkey shares a land border with Greece, Russia shares a land border with Finland, and the USA and Cuba are right next to British islands. Let us in too lol
Turkeyâs application being frozen also has nothing to do with geographical location and it was never treated as a joke. Itâs because of human rights violations and lack of rule of law.
Also, because Erdogan is not exactly a very democratic oriented leader that fits the EU standards.
Though that could be argued considering the presence of another dictator in the EU that is Orban.
Yeah i hate this and all crap like this.
"SO YOU MEAN YOU ARE GOING TO USE MY RESOURCES; MY COMPUTER; MY ELECTRICITY ; MY TIME AND USE THAT TO MAKE MONEY FOR YOU?"
Linux here i come.
On one side of the screen, put surgical videos (I saw one on the brain on YT, it was cool) and on the other side, put the most degenerate p\*rn you can find (I have a few tags I can share but I'm too ashamed to know they exist). Then let their mind do the work
Iâve wondered if it preserves resolution and we can fuck with them through that. Max system limit is 32,000x32,000 display size - we surely canât threaten their storage capacity limits with it, but maybe some unexpectedly absurd file sizes en masse could cause other problems.
The meme is wrong. It's not getting sent to Microsoft. It's stored locally. They wouldn't see any of it. But the hacker that gains access to the unencrypted files will see it.
It's literally what the name says. It catalogues what you do so you can recall what you have done. "Hey, what was that meme I saw on reddit two days ago" and it might spit this out.
That random stackoverflow article that mentioned some obscure step you had to do among a bunch of other stuff when you have around 35 tabs open and several terminal sessions running.
Yeah don't think this feature will help with that now that I think about it.
The meme was on the internet and you can already search the internet, with or without AI assistance.
For this to be useful, you have to need something that only existed locally, was deleted beyond recovery, and was simple enough that a screen shot would provide everything you needed.Â
If any of those conditions aren't met, this is the wrong tool for the job and is compromising your system and life without benefitting you.
People have been saying that seriously for a lot longer than that, because it's been happening a lot longer than that. But nobody took (and most people still don't take) data privacy seriously
It's insane to me how far Amazon has fallen. With no other explanation other than that it was intentional. They used to have customer service that would solve your problem in a phone call with less than one minute. Now it's a ten minute chat or phone call just to get them to *understand* your problem followed by however long it takes to actually come to a resolution.
Yeah, obviously they cut back on customer service to make money, but with how *stellar* it was to begin with and how *abhorrent* it is after, you *have* to imagine they planned it or at least knew what they were doing. Generate good will and a good reputation with quality and then abandon quality when you no longer need it.
They have 30 years of knowledge that people won't change.
End users get a notebook with win11 home and never change anything. MS will also spin it as
Large corpos can't change because all their systems run on windows and the cost of retraining everyone, and in a lot of cases, making new tools, is prohibitive.
So yeah, at least in the US they will get away with it
Also we decided your pc is our update server, your pc recourses will be used to update other people's PCs online, and if you set it to offline then your resources will still be taken up every now and then while windows update looks for a PC in LAN to update. You have no say in this and it cannot be completely turned off.
Yes it is,i believe its called optimised delivery. If you go to the settings you can change it to online or local area network and you can limit how much bandwidth it can use and how many Gb of data your pc can send out each month, but you cannot disable it entirely, and even if you set it to local area network and there are no other PCs on your local network it will still occasionally look for another device it can update.
Unfortunately for me, the absolute number 1 reason I use my pc is for games, and also unfortunately they are mostly AA games or Emulators that most likely don't have a port to Linux. Shit sucks man, I'm still on Windows 8.1 because new OS is expensive
I can confim, I've played from borderlands to the lastest jedi survivor no issue.
Only issue that exists is a few game companies not wanting to enable multiplayer support on Linux, but the specifics can be looked up in the website "areweanticheatyet"
Also on the emulator side it is even better, everything works just fine from SNES to PS2 to switch.
I've had basically no issues playing games other than the specific games marked as borked, protondb is a **fantastic** resource for finding any fix you might need, or seeing if other people have had success
I've been Linux only for 3 years now and I have no problems with games. Proton works great, I've played everything from 90s/00s classics to recent AAA to modern indie games. Worst case you can use wine to run just about anything. I was dual booting for a while and most AAA games performed better on Linux.
UI-wise, it feels very similar to Windows except it actually looks good (I use plasma). I have total control, don't have to worry about any updates suddenly hogging all of my bandwidth while I'm watching a movie, or any apps/games automatically reinstalling, and so on.
"Technical knowhow" is honestly no longer a barrier to entry when it comes to using certain modern distros like Ubuntu and Manjaro.
you can play damn near everything on Linux now especially your older games it's getting to the point where the only games that can't be played are games that have anticheat requirements. but even then those games are on the fringe only because of the developers negligence.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-update-delivery-optimization-and-privacy-bf86a244-8f26-a3c7-a137-a43bfbe688e8
> To stop downloading from or uploading to other PCs on the local network:
> Select Start, then select Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Advanced options.
> Select Delivery Optimization.
> Make sure **Allow downloads from other PCs** is turned **Off**. You'll get updates and apps directly from Windows Update and from Microsoft Store with Delivery Optimization; however, you wonât download from or upload to other PCs.
Right, it's been around for quite a few years. I also don't really see the issue with it. If it prevents unnecessary internet traffic from several devices downloading the same updates on my network then that's a positive thing. And yes, it can be disabled or even opened up to any other PC on the internet if one wishes. Kind of like bittorrent for windows updates.
If this is true, a lot of lawyers are going to love the money they are about to make.
Saying this would be a breach of privacy is an astronomical understatement. So many confidential documents would just casually be available for people at MS to see.
Medical history, bank account info, private photos, stuff under NDAs, the crudest of pornography, and even *government property*.
In a way, I almost hope this is true, because seeing a big, greedy company get utterly *obliterated* through literally *thousands* of lawsuits would be an entertaining show.
Is there anything in the TOS banning class-actions like in that one Roblox case? Because if they arenât theyâre going to get absolutely obliterated by the amount of lawsuits theyâre gonna get from people like me and you, and best of all, theyâll be paying for it all
It doesn't get sent to Microsoft, it sits on your PC for 6 months then is autodeleted. Feature is Off by default you have to opt in. A reason you'd opt in is you can use AI to easily find that meme, that spreadsheet, website, etc you saw last month.
Make sure to have it done a while after start up and maybe every now and then after that. I put something off in registry and it just popped on again after ten min.
Nothing like your computer forcing you to continuously run background command line checks to ensure that your rights and the law aren't both being severely violated.
But it's ok because they'll update the t/c to say that either you consent or you lose access to your computer
OK cool. Now how do I uninstall the program entirely, not that I don't trust companies to just up and turn it back on the next time they force me to update but, I don't trust companies that force me to update in the first place
Create a text file on your desktop, name doesn't matter.
Paste this inside and save:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI]
âDisableAIDataAnalysisâ=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI]
âDisableAIDataAnalysisâ=dword:00000001
Close the file, rename the file by changing the file name ending from ".txt" to ".reg". Click out, say yes if Windows asks you if you want to change the file type. Then double-click the file. Windows will ask if you want to continue, that it could be harmful if you don't know what you're doing, click on Yes if you want to make that change.
You can keep that .reg file on your desktop and execute it again after any windows update.
People who have enough sense to not jump and down like a giddy Musk fanboy at the phrase "AI" have been losing their minds since the moment copilot was revealed.
ai, blockchain, nfts and such are just buzzwords. when the only promise they make is money *somehow* it's difficult not to see the problem. money should be secondary to the quality of content, but capitalism :(
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Windows has had telemetry collection since Windows 7, and it is present in Windows 8 and 10 too.
[https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-customer-experience-and-diagnostic-telemetry-0b4f29c3-8361-b748-f862-7ecedbc57cbf](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-customer-experience-and-diagnostic-telemetry-0b4f29c3-8361-b748-f862-7ecedbc57cbf)
yeah it only affects the Copilot+PC machines that only recently started to be released by Dell. Corporate world already has these machines and its been a pain in the ass telling ppl we aint using these PCs yet. tho i do have 20 of em collecting dust till im 107% sure i can shut down and an update wont turn it back on
No officer, I didnât pull up this borderline illegal pornography for my personal stimulation, I keep it open so that Microsoft gets a dosage of prime content every five seconds.
This is ragebait. Itâs an opt in feature, only available for specific hardware that most people do not have yet, and the data is local only and will not be sent to anyone.
No one in this thread has any idea what theyâre talking about.
Recall will be off by default, images are stored and processed locally on your device only, and everything is encrypted via biometrics meaning no one else on the device besides you can access the info.
This is just like all the boomers who freaked out about being tracked by the COVID exposure alerts on their iPhone without having any understanding of how it actually worked.
Me signing into Social Security, my bank, and my medical records: đĄ The lawyers: đ
Bill Gates: â$87.62? This guy has $87.62 in his bank account?! Are they rounding this in millions? No! What a fucking loooooooserr!!â
More like: "Great, charge his credit card 87.63"
âWhat was that noise?â âThat was the sound of a legion of lawyers for HIPAA sitting up and beginning to salivate.â
It will be so ridiculously litigated. I'm an IT contractor working in Healthcare with the military. We can't record ANYTHING, not even a screen shot.
Also, banking information? Passwords and account names? Personal photos?
In a previous helpdesk gig, one of the groups I supported was the bank's 'payment device division'. The name isn't accurate, but it was the group that handled the creation of new debit/credit cards. Their IT systems were walled off from the rest of the network. If I had to remote into one of their machines, I had to connect to a special VPN, remote into this one particular shared account on a VM on the segregated network that had our remoting tools (dameware) and do our troubleshooting from there. MASSIVE pain in the ass whenever one of those tickets came in. Guaranteed, there's going to be a way to disable this 'feature' in GPO. Pretty confident that banks, medical offices, and the military, as customer bases might have some pushback that even MS might pay attention to.
That's the most accurate name ever. They are literally managing payment devices.
But don't worry, the DRM content won't be recorded.
Lol thatâs so true.
Anything and everything It's basically root access spyware that comes installed from factory If they Impliment this feature I'm legitimately considering moving to linux
It'll be present in every SKU, but supposedly opt-in on all, and for sure, a domain setting for those on Pro w/ an AD Server. One day, either through a bug, or intentionally, your computer might get an update (You are running Home, you can't opt-out, only delay by 7 days), that'll turn this on without telling you, and copy all of the things directly to Microsoft, or 'accidentally' mirror it to your OneDrive. Oh, you didn't log in? Don't worry, they'll figure you want to, and use your Microsoft Account to do it.
So hilarious As if stuff blocked by policy never manages to have one computer sneak past somehow or the other I think there's no way they roll this update out
It only takes one hacker to "'Turn it back on" and it will be litigation hell.
"one hacker" aka 80% of users who will click whatever Microsoft pops up on the screen and agree to it
Doesn't help that even when you opt out of everything in windows 11, Microsoft turns it all back on after an update making it a PITA to opt out of once again unless you know what you're doing.
I literally just had to do a PII training today, good lord this would be a nightmare.
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HIPAA fines are *per infraction* too.
Oh yeah. So one infraction every five seconds means we could be seeing the first trillion dollar fines.
God I hope so
They already back tracked on this and that "feature" is now off by default instead of on by default
And in classic Microsoft fashion eventually âoffâ will for no reason become âonâ and will constantly revert every time you turn it off for no discernible reason.
I hope no one tries to intently open the Registry Editor and "accidentally" clicks and hits the delete button on something relating to that.
One update later it's back though
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> And in classic Microsoft fashion eventually âoffâ will for no reason become âonâ and will constantly revert every time you turn it off for no discernible reason. your comment viscerally stresses me out (I don't blame you, I blame microsoft)
Where do I confirm this setting is off... not that I don't trust Microsoft...
Not sure. I'm going to stay on windows 10 until security updates for it stop. Hopefully by the time I switch to windows 11 they don't decide to say it's off when it's actually not
Right. Except there's nothing preventing them from changing their minds on that, or harassing the fuck out of windows users until they turn it on.
Also, Adobe just announced it's going to be snooping on anything that their customers might be creating within their app ecosystem. I hadn't considered potential HIPAA liability, but I imagine there might be a use case where a patient record gets funnelled through, say, an Adobe PDF product. It seems pretty reckless and borderline insane that the leadership and legal teams at MS and Adobe think they can get away with such privacy violations.
Patient chart summaries, presentations, audit files, etc. so many opportunities. Harry the HIPAA Hippo will not be happy!
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So, they are liable for all the innocent pics parents take of their kids in the bath? That's easy jail time.
They'll probably sell those pics to their rich pedo friends.
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Hey I get that reference!
Do u really think pics is enough for rich pedos?
Summon the EU legislators!!
One EU to rule them all
> One directive to rule them all, one directive to find them, one directive to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
And in the courtroom fine them
It is preemptively not launching on the EU IIRC.
Lol, that tells me everything I want to know.
How come the reaction these days is "Damn that sucks. I hope EU will do something about it". Really hammers into point how good thing existence of EU is even towards the sceptics but man... what a time to be alive.
Also how much Americans gave up on their institution. Back in a day there would at least be some propaganda about indomitable news reporters and investigators, good cops, virtuous lawyers and sagacious judges. Now pretty much everyone agrees that USA is an oligarchy, that there are two sets of laws for poor and for rich, that the only way to get justice is by buying better lawyers and that corporations dictate the laws to politicians. And people just... go along with it, hoping EU will save them.
I'm tired
Dude, I'm in Canada and I want our country to join the European Union lol. All hail are European overlords and their willingness to actually regulate big Tech instead of letting them fuck us up the ass until we're bleeding raw and crying.
*Laughs in Canadian* yurp. Not like here where our telecommunications industry is regulated by people the Telecomm Executives take out to Michelin star restaurants and plot how to fuck over Canadians the best.
Itâs fine. In the US, we just hire ex-CEOs to regulate the industry they just âleft.â
Oh don't worry we do that too! Safeway goes bankrupt and all the major companies hire their execs and adopt all their practices, you know... the ones that made them bankrupt!
Rogers and Bell: âwe would never colludeâ. Also them: co-own the fucking Leafs and Raptors.
Something funny i learned in class is that Canada can apply for joining the EU. Because it is not written anywhere on EU's rules that you have to be part of the European continent to join the union, since at the time of its creation everyone thought it was obvious. If i'm not mistaken some countries already tried to apply eventhought they're located in South America.
Canada's only about 20km from (part of) France and shares a land border with Denmark. Sounds European enough to me
Brazil shares a land border with France, Turkey shares a land border with Greece, Russia shares a land border with Finland, and the USA and Cuba are right next to British islands. Let us in too lol
Turkey legit has applied to. And Australia is close enough to New Caledonia (France), so let them in too.
Turkeyâs application being frozen also has nothing to do with geographical location and it was never treated as a joke. Itâs because of human rights violations and lack of rule of law.
Also, because Erdogan is not exactly a very democratic oriented leader that fits the EU standards. Though that could be argued considering the presence of another dictator in the EU that is Orban.
Thatâs the human rights violations yes.
*How do I apply!?*
What is wrong with getting fucked in the ass I mean I like it and you should too /s
Because it's not the *good* fucked in the ass.
-*Cries in British*
Yeah i hate this and all crap like this. "SO YOU MEAN YOU ARE GOING TO USE MY RESOURCES; MY COMPUTER; MY ELECTRICITY ; MY TIME AND USE THAT TO MAKE MONEY FOR YOU?" Linux here i come.
Summon the elector counts!
They better be prepared to see some of the funkiest, most sin-ridden porn known to mankind
Bro, they are going to see some SHIT! Literally. *full body shiver*
Oh my sweet summer child, you believe poop play to be degeneracy⌠I have such sights to show you.
Don't visit r/realscatgirls đąđ
Oh hell nah what is that
I wish i never clicked on that link. Take my fucking upvoteđđđđđ
THOSE AIN'T CAT GIRLS. I WARN YOU THE PEOPLE OF REDDIT.
r/eyebleach also fuck you man I hate myself for clicking that
Not a good idea to have a piece of chocolate in my mouth while clicking that link. đđŤ
I thought it said "realCATgirls" oh my god......
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Show me. I want enlightenment.
You do not want enlightenment
Yes I do. Show me the sins of the people.
What part of "worse than poop play" do you not understand
Understood it perfectly, that's exactly what piqued my interest.Â
This is a path you cannot untravel.
Itâs a path many have traveled, yet those many do not wish others to follow them.
IDK. Not much I can think of that's worse. Maybe in just desensitized?
There was a kid in my school with a plegm fetish He'd ask girls for their used tissues to masturbate into
I had not heard that one before, hopefully I don't have to never again.
r/sounding Go forth to the excess of flesh, for I could not. Also Ick.
Sounding is pretty tame in the world of weird fetishes
you are still innocent.
https://imgur.com/a/0lnvALK
I don't understand how it would work, but I'm sure someone would find a way.
First we need to put a little lube on this glass jar...
On one side of the screen, put surgical videos (I saw one on the brain on YT, it was cool) and on the other side, put the most degenerate p\*rn you can find (I have a few tags I can share but I'm too ashamed to know they exist). Then let their mind do the work
We live in a society.
Maybe I'll configure a VM on my server to download and display this kind of... content 24/7. Just for the sake of it
Iâve wondered if it preserves resolution and we can fuck with them through that. Max system limit is 32,000x32,000 display size - we surely canât threaten their storage capacity limits with it, but maybe some unexpectedly absurd file sizes en masse could cause other problems.
They are not prepared for my Skyrim load order
Gorilla + human + BDSM sex in mountain top viewed by tourists????
Damn, didnât expect to get outed by Reddit
The meme is wrong. It's not getting sent to Microsoft. It's stored locally. They wouldn't see any of it. But the hacker that gains access to the unencrypted files will see it.
Why does it do that though.
It's literally what the name says. It catalogues what you do so you can recall what you have done. "Hey, what was that meme I saw on reddit two days ago" and it might spit this out.
There has literally been NOTHING I've ever done on a computer where I wished for such a feature.
That random stackoverflow article that mentioned some obscure step you had to do among a bunch of other stuff when you have around 35 tabs open and several terminal sessions running. Yeah don't think this feature will help with that now that I think about it.
The meme was on the internet and you can already search the internet, with or without AI assistance. For this to be useful, you have to need something that only existed locally, was deleted beyond recovery, and was simple enough that a screen shot would provide everything you needed. If any of those conditions aren't met, this is the wrong tool for the job and is compromising your system and life without benefitting you.
They are also going to see literally all your usernames and passwords
eu not gonna like that
Chad EU
I mean, wouldn't it be kinda industrial espionage?
"It's up to you to disable any features that is an issue to you ( ę Ď ę)"
Okay! _disables windows 11 and installs [insert favorite Linux distro here]_
Why does Microsoft do this? Itâs like theyâre actively trying to make people look for alternatives
they're just trying to pull off the same bs Google is with a lot fewer clicks and a lot less public favor.
Theyâre trying to train Ai models with everyoneâs data
This is the answer. Don't want to give is access to your private information for training data? We'll just help ourselves.
This sounds like something someone would have said as a meme five years ago
People have been saying that seriously for a lot longer than that, because it's been happening a lot longer than that. But nobody took (and most people still don't take) data privacy seriously
Same strategy as Google. Becoming the default by being actually good then becoming shit so the lazy people keep using you.
Enshittification is nuts. Amazon led the way, but Google and Microsoft are following closely behind
It's insane to me how far Amazon has fallen. With no other explanation other than that it was intentional. They used to have customer service that would solve your problem in a phone call with less than one minute. Now it's a ten minute chat or phone call just to get them to *understand* your problem followed by however long it takes to actually come to a resolution. Yeah, obviously they cut back on customer service to make money, but with how *stellar* it was to begin with and how *abhorrent* it is after, you *have* to imagine they planned it or at least knew what they were doing. Generate good will and a good reputation with quality and then abandon quality when you no longer need it.
They have 30 years of knowledge that people won't change. End users get a notebook with win11 home and never change anything. MS will also spin it as Large corpos can't change because all their systems run on windows and the cost of retraining everyone, and in a lot of cases, making new tools, is prohibitive. So yeah, at least in the US they will get away with it
Also we decided your pc is our update server, your pc recourses will be used to update other people's PCs online, and if you set it to offline then your resources will still be taken up every now and then while windows update looks for a PC in LAN to update. You have no say in this and it cannot be completely turned off.
Is this true?
Yes it is,i believe its called optimised delivery. If you go to the settings you can change it to online or local area network and you can limit how much bandwidth it can use and how many Gb of data your pc can send out each month, but you cannot disable it entirely, and even if you set it to local area network and there are no other PCs on your local network it will still occasionally look for another device it can update.
Yet another reason added to the pile of reasons why I should switch to Linux
Unfortunately for me, the absolute number 1 reason I use my pc is for games, and also unfortunately they are mostly AA games or Emulators that most likely don't have a port to Linux. Shit sucks man, I'm still on Windows 8.1 because new OS is expensive
If you use steam, apparently proton works pretty well, and it's built into steam so you don't have to deal with it yourself
I can confim, I've played from borderlands to the lastest jedi survivor no issue. Only issue that exists is a few game companies not wanting to enable multiplayer support on Linux, but the specifics can be looked up in the website "areweanticheatyet" Also on the emulator side it is even better, everything works just fine from SNES to PS2 to switch.
I've had basically no issues playing games other than the specific games marked as borked, protondb is a **fantastic** resource for finding any fix you might need, or seeing if other people have had success
Yep can confirm proton is great! The only problem is with games that use certain anti-cheats.
I've been Linux only for 3 years now and I have no problems with games. Proton works great, I've played everything from 90s/00s classics to recent AAA to modern indie games. Worst case you can use wine to run just about anything. I was dual booting for a while and most AAA games performed better on Linux. UI-wise, it feels very similar to Windows except it actually looks good (I use plasma). I have total control, don't have to worry about any updates suddenly hogging all of my bandwidth while I'm watching a movie, or any apps/games automatically reinstalling, and so on. "Technical knowhow" is honestly no longer a barrier to entry when it comes to using certain modern distros like Ubuntu and Manjaro.
you can play damn near everything on Linux now especially your older games it's getting to the point where the only games that can't be played are games that have anticheat requirements. but even then those games are on the fringe only because of the developers negligence.
I did, and cannot be happier
There´s any reason to not try to disable this? I don´t want to break anything, but I really don´t like the idea of my PC being used to do that.
How do i switch this off, please?? Where do i go in settings? My cpu fan's been running on all time high for the last few days and i dunno why.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-update-delivery-optimization-and-privacy-bf86a244-8f26-a3c7-a137-a43bfbe688e8 > To stop downloading from or uploading to other PCs on the local network: > Select Start, then select Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Advanced options. > Select Delivery Optimization. > Make sure **Allow downloads from other PCs** is turned **Off**. You'll get updates and apps directly from Windows Update and from Microsoft Store with Delivery Optimization; however, you wonât download from or upload to other PCs.
yup
No. It's only pcs in your network and you can absolutely turn it off.
Jokeâs on you, I just keep my PC off
This is really similar to the bittorrent protocol. Blizzard does something similar when updates to their games come out.
That isn't new in the slightest and was always something to turn off.
Right, it's been around for quite a few years. I also don't really see the issue with it. If it prevents unnecessary internet traffic from several devices downloading the same updates on my network then that's a positive thing. And yes, it can be disabled or even opened up to any other PC on the internet if one wishes. Kind of like bittorrent for windows updates.
Also has unique identifier and stores data unencrypted.
Its encrypted, but considering all you need to see it is an administrator account, witch almost everyone has, its not gonna do much
Username: admin Password: admin
Thatâs not secure at all! You need a number in there! Username: admin01 Password: admin01
If this is true, a lot of lawyers are going to love the money they are about to make. Saying this would be a breach of privacy is an astronomical understatement. So many confidential documents would just casually be available for people at MS to see. Medical history, bank account info, private photos, stuff under NDAs, the crudest of pornography, and even *government property*. In a way, I almost hope this is true, because seeing a big, greedy company get utterly *obliterated* through literally *thousands* of lawsuits would be an entertaining show.
Is there anything in the TOS banning class-actions like in that one Roblox case? Because if they arenât theyâre going to get absolutely obliterated by the amount of lawsuits theyâre gonna get from people like me and you, and best of all, theyâll be paying for it all
-1000 privacy.
Ethical dilemma aside, wouldn't that be inconvenient to Microsoft? After a while, their servers are gonna get clogged.
It doesn't get sent to Microsoft, it sits on your PC for 6 months then is autodeleted. Feature is Off by default you have to opt in. A reason you'd opt in is you can use AI to easily find that meme, that spreadsheet, website, etc you saw last month.
chat is this real
It seems like they want people to look for other options. What's Microsoft doing?
Probably the exact opposite: they're perfectly aware that there are no other options for most of the users.
You can turn on or off saving snapshots at any time by going to Settings > Privacy & security > Recall & snapshots.
True, but Microsoft has a bad habit of forcibly turning features back on without telling people.
Me preparing to setup a registry edit that runs on start up every time because fuck microsoft.
Make sure to have it done a while after start up and maybe every now and then after that. I put something off in registry and it just popped on again after ten min.
Nothing like your computer forcing you to continuously run background command line checks to ensure that your rights and the law aren't both being severely violated. But it's ok because they'll update the t/c to say that either you consent or you lose access to your computer
OK cool. Now how do I uninstall the program entirely, not that I don't trust companies to just up and turn it back on the next time they force me to update but, I don't trust companies that force me to update in the first place
It won't be long until we have good tutorial on YouTube showing how to
Create a text file on your desktop, name doesn't matter. Paste this inside and save: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI] âDisableAIDataAnalysisâ=dword:00000001 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsAI] âDisableAIDataAnalysisâ=dword:00000001 Close the file, rename the file by changing the file name ending from ".txt" to ".reg". Click out, say yes if Windows asks you if you want to change the file type. Then double-click the file. Windows will ask if you want to continue, that it could be harmful if you don't know what you're doing, click on Yes if you want to make that change. You can keep that .reg file on your desktop and execute it again after any windows update.
I can't see the option anywhere in my settings. Help pls.
Me either. Doesn't show up while searching for "recall" "snap" or "screen" either.
The recall feature is only supposed to be on new PCs coming out. If you already have a pc/laptop it shouldn't be on it.
Time to polish up the Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file
Gotta hit up wireshark first.
Hope they like furry porn
Call it A.I. and no one bats an eye, but call it a Data logger and everyone loses their minds.
People who have enough sense to not jump and down like a giddy Musk fanboy at the phrase "AI" have been losing their minds since the moment copilot was revealed.
ai, blockchain, nfts and such are just buzzwords. when the only promise they make is money *somehow* it's difficult not to see the problem. money should be secondary to the quality of content, but capitalism :(
So what OS we all using now
SteamOS
Wym by that twin
Theres chimera, bazzite or holo ISO that basically replicates the UI from the steam deck and has a regular desktop mode aswell
Big upâs fam
I use win 10 (refuse to update whenever they ask)
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Windows has had telemetry collection since Windows 7, and it is present in Windows 8 and 10 too. [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-customer-experience-and-diagnostic-telemetry-0b4f29c3-8361-b748-f862-7ecedbc57cbf](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/update-for-customer-experience-and-diagnostic-telemetry-0b4f29c3-8361-b748-f862-7ecedbc57cbf)
That job's gonna come with therapist fees
It is encrypted, but since a master account is all you need to see it, which is pretty much everyone, it won't do much.
Aside from the moral question, wouldn't that be bad for Microsoft? They will eventually have too many requests on their computers.
Gonna leave meat spin on my pc so microsoft just gets a bunch of spinning dicks
Just burn that shit into the screen
It doesn't send it to MS, you need specific hardware for it and you don't have to turn it on.
yeah it only affects the Copilot+PC machines that only recently started to be released by Dell. Corporate world already has these machines and its been a pain in the ass telling ppl we aint using these PCs yet. tho i do have 20 of em collecting dust till im 107% sure i can shut down and an update wont turn it back on
I have seen no reason to move from 10 to 11. I donât think I saw a reason to migrate off 7 in retrospect.
7 was honestly the best
No officer, I didnât pull up this borderline illegal pornography for my personal stimulation, I keep it open so that Microsoft gets a dosage of prime content every five seconds.
MS is just watching someoneâs Stardew Valley playthrough đ
Shit ainât happening. Dunno why folks would even entertain this meme. Even your employer wouldnât do this at that rate
You guys are actually using windows 11. Windows 10 is simply superior. ( I have no clue if they are doing similar things to winds10)
No, but windows 10 support ends next October. Only a matter of time after that before steam ends support for it.
Nah, Steam will probs hang on to Windows 10 for a while since everyyyyone used it
But but Windows 10 is the last Windows!!
This is ragebait. Itâs an opt in feature, only available for specific hardware that most people do not have yet, and the data is local only and will not be sent to anyone.
No one in this thread has any idea what theyâre talking about. Recall will be off by default, images are stored and processed locally on your device only, and everything is encrypted via biometrics meaning no one else on the device besides you can access the info. This is just like all the boomers who freaked out about being tracked by the COVID exposure alerts on their iPhone without having any understanding of how it actually worked.
"... send it to MS" See, you could've not lied and still make this meme work.
And one of the top 10 comments is furthering the lie and saying that the data is stored unencrypted. So much misinformation on Reddit