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Don't use Ubuntu then... Ubuntu is not "The Linux" Ubuntu is only Ubuntu. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I was the same. Took me a second to remember it was the shit software they’re trying to force on everyone. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
The other day I wanted to reinstall GPU drivers so I downloaded the necessary driver file for offline install because, for WHATEVER reason, almost all useful drivers don't work in safe mode, including my NIC.
Before rebooting, I moved the file to my desktop, which is backed up by OneDrive, for quick access.
Guess who couldn't use any fucking files on the desktop because I had no connection to OneDrive? Guess which files have the "always keep on device" option checked? ALL OF THEM.
I had to reboot normally and drag the files to one of my other drives that isn't backed up.
What's the fucking point of having the file always available if I can't use it offline? Useless. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Attorney here.
You can turn off Recall.
Also, everything is stored locally so I don't see how it would create a privilege issue. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
> Read Wealth of Nations and understand the critical underpinnings of free markets...
If I remember some of the concepts in Wealth of Nations correctly, one of the major assumptions that Smith uses about a properly-functioning free market is that there are lots of independent both suppliers & consumers participating in the market, and that this creates the constant competitive tensions between all parties that maximizes the market's efficiency.
Funny how most of the corporate apologists never bring this context up when they are quoting Smith to try and defend why large corporations should be allowed to dominate markets without any government interference. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
> Also if it works on proton it IS that easy.
Define 'works on Proton' please?
* Works on proton but only after you use a protontrick to inject the new ubisoft launcher (launchers - another pet hate)?
* Works on proton-ge but not on proton?
* Works on proton but only with a custom command line that some user posted two years ago on protondb?
* Works, but with a graphical glitch in the menus like happened to me on The Talos Principle on my steam deck not a month ago?
It's good. It's getting better all the time. Frankly, as someone who cut their teeth trying to get a 33.3 modem working through a serial port on SuSE 4.3, it's astonishing how far we've come. But no, it's not easy, it's not perfect and I just *don't* understand why you're trying to sell it as such. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Nice copypasta, thanks. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Same with the genius who thought it was great idea to name the new mail app for windows "new outlook", despite it having nothing to do with the existing outlook. And it came right off the heels of the "new" teams app, that was an actual replacement for teams.
we got so many tickets from users confused why there were now 2 outlook apps and which one they should use because the POS automatically installs itself. It was an easy fix to remove via intune, but it's bullshit that happens on an enterprise edition OS. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
...can I have windows 7 back? Or 8 I'm fine with 8. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
There's probably a way to coerce them into a Wine prefix. That'd be a bit of work, but I'm willing to bet it's doable with the right mounting.
If the games came from Steam, the "proper" way to do it would be to tell Steam about the external drive and redownload them so Steam can set everything up for you. Then you should be good to disconnect the drives again. I have a similar setup, and it looks like I have my `steamapps/common` folder set up like it looks on Windows (so Windows can - theoretically - run these games), but then I have a `compatdata` folder which has the Wine prefixes and complicated stuff I don't have to think about anymore.
There's probably a good way to set it up nice and easy, but it sort of depends on your exact setup and I don't think I have enough detail to work with. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
> If the machine is not accessing the internet
The machine is accessing the Internet. You have misunderstood what the situation is, they're talking about blocking windows update using something like a pihole, not keeping it disconnected from the Internet altogether. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Nintendo really dropped the ball on marketing with the wii u. It's a shame too because it was a good console with some great games. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I've been running Linux on numerous systems for decades, but my primary desktop has always been Windows. My OS SSD died a couple of months ago, and I decided it was finally time to completely cut Windows from my day-to-day. The new OS drive has Gentoo. News like this just reinforces my satisfaction with the switch. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
So the process is to give you a list of arbiters, and you can veto especially bad ones, and then both parties agree on the arbiter. They will veto any pro-consumer arbiters, and you have the opportunity to do the same for pro-business.
The problem is knowing which is which - they do this all the time, and know which ones to select. You do not, and have to rely on a short time period to research. This leads to a 40% more likely chance that the pro-business one is selected.
Since they are aware of this, if this is how you get paid, being selected as an arbiter, how do you make sure you can keep being selected? Picking the consumers’ side, who has one of these in their lifetime, or the business who is using you every single day?
Stay neutral, but if you bias towards a business, you keep working. If you bias towards the consumer, you dont. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Ah k thanks, worst case scenario I'll just re'dl em, not too many games, but good to know that it is possible. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
The government runs on Windows. People keep saying "well Enterprise users won't stand for this", but I don't think they realize that enterprise customers need Microsoft more than Microsoft needs them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Average person knows how to drop adobe licenses without using the portal? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Um... When did anyone ever trust Microsoft in the first place? I've been using Microsoft products since about DOS 2-point something. Nobody has ever fucking trusted Microsoft. They just use Microsoft products because they are the least pain in the ass without costing you an arm and a leg. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
I work in IT in a hospital. HIPPA would flip shit. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Besides the fact that we got everyone off the file server and onto OD/SharePoint (M$FT gets kudos for SharePoint - NGL) I still hate OD as it regularly brain farts.
NO SYNC!!! NO SYNC!!!
It gives me psychotic flashbacks just thinking about it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Yeah, I’m running Debian on my Intel iMac, but haven’t had an opportunity to look into how the Ms are going.
I just retired my 2009 MacBook in 2022. It got security updates even though it was stuck on Sierra. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
My fucking company just removed FF from every comp and is forcing us to edge.......yeehaw. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Been using Ubuntu as my daily-driver & gaming PC for the better part of a year now; other than a few specialty programs that absolutely require either Windows or Mac, it's been rock solid. Steam + Proton has exceeded my expectations, and actually live up to the hype if you have current hardware. I think one of the problems people have with Ubuntu is the tendency to install it on aging/EOL hardware while expecting it to magically make it perform like a brand-new, current-gen PC.
I'd tried Ubuntu a few years back and it was not anywhere near as smooth as is it now; if that's anyone else's history, I understand your hesitancy, but you probably owe it another look.
It took like a weekend of googling and installing things to make it more Windows-like (totally by-choice, just to ease my transition), and that's really been about it. I was watching dumb stuff on youtube on the side while I was configuring the system; it wasn't "hard" at all. I also actually do less googling for random problems now than I was having to under Windows (e.g. "Permanently stop OneDrive from reinstalling itself"). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
One major use, that they're not doing for some reason, is to have AI automate routine tasks for you. For example, my 73 year old mother has written step-by-step instructions for copying her photos each month off her phone and onto her laptop to update her 20+ year collection of photos. (We also use Google Photos, but keep local copies as well.) Windows should be recognizing that when she plugs in her phone she's doing this and offer to do it for her, perhaps even helping her organize the photos by event/date. Honestly, I'd expect 90%+ of computer tasks done in business to be similarly automatable. But, no, we just get creepy tracking and forced LLM AI interaction. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
You'd be surprised at how often corporate drinks its own kool-aid. I bet everyone was like "fuck yeah, we have a dope feature AND we can beat our competitors to market with this. We're so awesome!" | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Nah, it was something to do with it not being supplied enough power. It's a "gamer" mouse, it has LEDs that light up and they were flickering on and off roughly once a second. Computer could tell something was plugged in but couldn't get it properly working. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
The latter. It’s had plenty of decades to mature and the open source community bang on but don’t produce good enough apps. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
How does one go about ensuring this crap is not on their computer? I have Windows 10. I play a lot of niche games that may not have Linux support so I'm not sure Linux is an option for me. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
And then they wonder why people refuse to upgrade. No Recall on older Windows, and it's **wonderful**. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
You're correct, it's also common to make backups of files by just copying them with .bak on the end.
The file extension is meaningless, but certain softwares (a lot of databases like Postgres or SQL Server) use it as a convention. Their software expects the .bak format and will try to read it as a database. You could upload random_filename.txt.bak and it would try to open it, just because of the .bak extension at the end.
But the extension itself is meaningless. That's how most files are, it's just a bunch of bits that pieces of software know how to read.
For fun, if you want to see what I mean, change an Excel file's extension from .xlsx to .zip. Now you can open it as a ZIP archive, because that's basically all the .xlsx file extension means. When you open a file with the extension .xlsx in Excel, the decoder knows how to read the underlying files as a spreadsheet. But with a .zip extension, your archiving software can open the bundled files in the .xlsx as if they were a .zip archive.
Nothin' special about .bak. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
three big factors at play :
1. CEO's of the current era rarely come from the "the industry", instead they come from a school with a degree in "business management", so they lack any familiarity with the processes that actually made their company successful, and lack any personal association or passion for the field of focus of their company. absent this familiarity or connection, the only metric that this CEO will use for "success" is growth.
2. many companies are now owned by hedge funds or investment companies, which means their board of directors suffer from all the defects of point #1, additionally, their only motivation is to increase profit for quarterly reports to drive the stock value and increase the wealth of investors.
3. with the CEO and the board detached from what made a business successful in the first place, and driven only by quarterly profits (growth), companies invariably arc towards extracting revenue in the fastest and cheapest way... which is never innovation, but always simply charging more money, decreasing production cost, and decreasing staffing cost. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
That's... Actually kinda the problem.
"Hey, my thing x isn't working."
"Thing x? You should be using thing y instead. Sure, it's esoteric and doesn't make sense unless you've spent a year using it, but it solves the tiny problem you see."
Only for thing Y to have a myriad of its own unique issues.
As powerful as Linux can be, there are a million ways to do things, and billions to break them. For stable business systems, they're great. For personal use any time you try to do something new, it's another job. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Anyone who has to deal with ITAR is going to have something to say. We don't get special versions of Windows. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
The problem is not "the AI" it is the companies behind the models and systems. Issue is that "the AI" model as it is doesn't really generate any revenue by itself. You can only sell it as a service.
Issue is that if you sell the AI as a service, by running it yourself you need to have expensive servers with top-of-the-line hardware and then have the system handle all the input and output. This also has the benefit of generating data for you to train and adjust your model and develop the system.
If you sell it to run locally, then you need to surrender the model to the user, meaning that the user can run it without your control and it will be cracked wide open and used in ways you don't want to. And you can't get data to develop the system or the model.
This is the biggest problem of the AI economy... Basically no one has figured out to way to make any actual money with them. Now machine learning has been used as a tool for all sorts of things for like 40 years now... thats not what the modern AI is.
So the billions that are being spent on developing these models... They aren't actualy producing any real value. There are all sorts of one off things they do, but for the most part they are a solution looking for a problem. Yeah they are cool little toys and things you can try to find research topics or niche information that you **have to** validate because you can not trust it or the AI models.
And all the problems we want them to solve: basic admin, basic secretarial and assistant work... etc. Shit that is low value or even no real value. Issue is that... They fail to be able to do this. Then the system requirements needed to get this to work requires absolutely obsence hardware (Even with the newer chips) or having to use a cloud service. Two things which are a massive obstacle for wide spread use in consumer and entreprise settings. Then on top of this we get the question of responsibility, who is at fault if the AI fucks up? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
Unbelievable. Ive been against this subscription bullshit from the start but everyone just refuses to see where it was heading. "I don't mind paying for the subscription, they need to make money as a business, seems fair to me...." now look where we are. They keep doing this shit because no one pushes back, and well, yeah they have a monopoly. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-06-06 |
They could easily turn it off for enterprise windows.
Would you notice it in the background? Taking a screenshot every 2 seconds wouldn't even register for most computers. There's already a large telemetry software package and windows search running in the background that saps resources but people have been conditioned to not notice. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
As a related aside, I don't know if anyone else has noticed how aggressively they're advertising Copilot. But the use case they advertise (targeting Parents: use Copilot and it will write bedtime stories for your child for memories they'll never forget and you and your child will be enraptured with innocent wonder and bond over the experience forever) **feels so fucking evil** given how Copilot and Recall actually work and what the data will really be used for (even before the inevitable hacking and doxxing.)
It's unreal manipulative and sinister. Like a plot point from a fiction movie where a company is secretly run by actual demons. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
My last windows computer broke down six months ago and I've been using a linux (arch btw) laptop since. I honestly have barely noticed a difference. All my Steam games run fine. Everything else works fine, except for a few very old, very niche programs that are a bit clunky to use in Wine. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
If all you are doing is shitposting and booking tickets on your pc , just get Linux installed and be done with it. The only reason to use windows these days is some applications not being supported purely due to laziness ( games, enterprise software etc ) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
first let me show you a picture of my computer
https://i.imgur.com/ET8u5qZ.jpeg
its buckshot roulette which has quake 1 level of graphics so theres no reason it couldn't run on this | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Can someone explain the problem? I understand how dangerous this is and can be. I understand how unsecure it is. I hate the concept.
But like no one has it right now. And it's not in home. And you can turn it off. And any god damn industry, educational institution, or government agency will have it off by default.
Is it stupid? Yes. Should it exist? No. Should Microsoft remove it completely? Yes. Should they at least default it to being turn off by default? Yes.
But people are acting like the sky is falling. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
I think the subscription model is far superior for certain types of software, but the companies that implement it do it in a late stage capitalism way and it ruins it.
I really like Adobe software for example. I couldn't afford it before the subscription model. Then suddenly I could, but then wait, I go to turn it off when I'm not using it like I do my streaming accounts, and get hit with a hundreds of dollars cancelation fee I knew nothing about. I had to cancel my fucking debit card just to avoid that shit because they'll just repeatedly try to help themselves to your money from whatever financial instruments you have on file.
All they would have to do, is let me come and go as I please, like any other service, and I'd be a loyal customer for life (provided that rate increases were rare and announced well ahead of time). Instead, I'm back to "I can't afford the shit again" and now I just use Gimp and Blender and Inkscape and Figma and I hate Adobe with a passion. Today I had to fuck with a PDF in Microsoft Word and it was hell and I despise them both. At least I'm to the point I do 98% of my shit on Debian 12 + Gnome desktop and only use the browser versions of MS software. All these products made by modern robber barrons can go fuck themselves | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Jesus what a monumentally bad fucking idea.
Did not one person at Microsoft stop for a moment and think "Do users want this? Does anyone want this?"
Even assuming they never themselves sell or leak or even *have* the data. They're giving people an extreme incentive to steal other peoples' computers. Imagine you're a piece of shit not above such things. You steal a computer, get that data, and you have every account the user has ever logged into. You have their porn search and view history. You have their *life*.
Microsoft and their (very few) fans would say "But if you're using Bitlocker and a Microsoft account, they can't break into your data!"
To which I, a lowly computer/electronics repair tech, say "Sure thing, Jan." Just found a way to rescue files from OneDrive without a login. Someone else recently found a way to bypass BitLocker entirely.
Microsoft sucks. The only reason I use their OS is because Apple is worse, and Linux is perpetually fractured and unready. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Developers need to create new features to justify their employment, companies need new features to justify new versions of their product to consumers, and executives need to justify all the money they've spent on AI to their investors with deliverable products.
Supposedly this thing works well, but I don't really see a reason I would ever want something like this. Most of the things in my life that I would want to track history on I already can track history on because versions have already been added.
The things I don't want history on, like games and the like, I just don't want history on. Who is the customer for this? Who wants or needs it?
I understand why Microsoft did online accounts, I resisted for a long time (and I think you can still opt out), but I came around.
I can understand why they push edge, it's a fairly decent browser and they've worked hard to make it not shit. It's probably more trustworthy than Chrome. I don't use it because I only use Chrome when I specifically need Chrome in the first place, but if Firefox didn't exist I'd probably use it because the rest of the browser market is just that bad.
I can understand why they allowed more fine grained control of your browser defaults, but I think it should have been an option feature for the 0.1% of people who need it or have had a dedicated control that made changing everything at once or chunks of it easier.
Ads in Windows was a stupid move, though in my country on my license I've never seen them. They don't need the money from it and it's just straight up tacky even if the OS was free.
All this stuff kind of makes sense in a bubble, and I understand that Microsoft generally has non technical users and so to an extent they have to make decisions on their behalf, but the way they do things is often ham fisted.
I don't know if I'd ever use this thing for its intended purpose. It just doesn't really make sense for me, but I can totally see how we got here. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Then it’ll install candy crush saga for your convenience. Or “upgrade your feature experience version” so even more telemetry is installed, turned on (if you turned it off), one drive is reinstalled, edge is made default… etc. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Imagine someone pulling the recall data from an entire organisation, the sheer amount of IP theft would be staggering. It would be like share discovery on steroids. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
It’s just bad | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
This is how I figure it works.
The few times I have to express my dissatisfaction with a company in their survey, I heap on as much praise as I can for the rep in my comments. I don't know if it helps, but it can often be stuff like "Without minty-teaa, I would no longer be remaining a customer of X. They deserve all the credit for resolving my problem, and none of the blame for it existing."
I know it doesn't stop crappy management from being crappy, but sometimes there's no other way to tell the company that they're a steaming pile of shit, especially when I can't really vote with my wallet. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Generative AI is not "just shit" - it's overhyped. If you want something to perform some kind of boring text processing - summarising or rewording for example - it can perform quite well (assuming you proofread). If you want to generate some clipart or a throwaway illustration, it's great. Things where the quality doesn't matter.
And this use-case - search - is actually ideal for AI. You can try more accurate ways of finding information first, then fall back to AI-powered search afterwards, so it would only add to existing methods. If it fails, it would only be failing after you've already tried and failed with conventional methods. I think we've all had cases where something was referred to in a way we forgot and so we couldn't find it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
It's not as simple as that. Like usual, fear mongering leads to hysterics. That said, it's far closer to that than it has any right to be.
It's an unencrypted database. Leaving your computer unattended, even briefly, was never a good idea but the consequences skyrocket with this. There will be tools made to quickly dump the database onto a drive.
Law enforcement can force you to log in with facial recognition, something all these devices encourage using. Then it's wide open to them.
Even in trusted areas like family homes, having your entire computer usage for months laid bare will certainly cause issues. From the 7 year old kid getting into stuff maybe they shouldn't, to the domineering spouse monitoring their partner. It's too much. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Or, the customer is your employer. Some employers would love to have this kind of detail on what their employees do all day.
With Microsoft's most successful product being the Office suite, while Linux is better and better for gaming and OS X continues to thrive in its own separate bubble, Windows is more and more the OS that you use because your employer requires you to use it. So the customer making the buying decision isn't really the user. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
It'll come back | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Linux is a non-starter for people who work in creative fields, especially filmmaking and image processing. And no, GIMP is not a good replacement for Photoshop or Affinity Photo. And no, Kdenlive is not a good replacement for DaVinci Resolve. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Because they can and there is lack of regulation and laws that guarantee the user's rights. Also these companies spend billions on lobbying politicians and officials around the world. Also these companies don't actually have anything to sell without constant "innovation", because lot of them don't actually produce much of real value.
We have opensource hardware and software that could do everything a person would need. Issue is that the companies keep coming up with slight iterations to justify selling more shit...
And these companies need to sell more shit all the time. Our economy is based on infinite ever accelerating growth. If companies don't do this, our economy comes down crashing. Issue is that many companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple... etc. are reaching full market saturation. How do you grow when literally everyone alive is your client already? You can't... So you must generate more value per client. Problem is that there is limited amount of value and wealth you can extract, yet you are required to always extract more of it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
they had to make a separate version for the US government because even they, who get back channel access to MS' sniffing activities, were like "we don't trust your shit, guys" | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
LPT: Use lube if you going raw. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Arch with KDE Plasma has been the most usable for me and themeable for familiarity/comfort. Many distro UIs really grind my gears personally as someone who has used Windows forever and a day. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Just turn it off. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
The next reason I have to reformat my drive or move away from Windows 10 I'm going with a Linux distro. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
One of the most bizarre things to me about tech billionaires ruining the world in every way imaginable is that none of them seem to understand that if society collapses, they specifically are *completely fucked.*
Not the farmers. Not the tradesmen. Not day laborers. Those people will still have skills in a post-apocalyptic, pre-industrial world. The tech billionaire's wealth and status, on the other hand, only exists as long as modern society exists. They become irrelevant nobodies if society collapses, because they don't have in demand skills anymore.
If anyone should be working day in and day out to keep modern society prosperous and functioning, it's the fucking billionaires. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
it's wild how often people get stuck with a question and post it to reddit, some discords, etc. when all they had to do is put the question into google verbatim. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
People will feign outrage, then keep on using it like good little zombies. Remember the outrage when it was first discovered that google was scanning every email, or when it was discovered facebook was selling users' detailed personal information to a foreign political consulting firm, or when.... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Here's $3.50 from the class action | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
This is a well-written article. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
I'd like to say you're right, but somehow the CEO tenures at MS, Apple, and Google have lasted upwards of a decade if not longer.
Case in point, Satya Nadella has been CEO of Microsoft since 2014, ten years ago. Steve Ballmer, before him, was CEO since 2000.
These men drive their companies for entire eras, not just mere sagas. It's staggering just how much influence they have on the daily lives of their consumers, and indirectly on those who aren't. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
If you just gonna move the hypothetical goalpost further, I don't really know what to say. It's pretty typical thing coming from windows users, just one "what if" after another. If things are harder on Linux, we make them better, that's how FOSS works. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
There's so many comments here saying who's this for or what's the point. It's for businesses, Microsoft's target market for everything is businesses not individuals. Retail users are just their guinea pigs.
It's not uploaded to the cloud but that doesn't stop your IT department from giving your boss access to your machine or using it to monitor productivity.
I use a similar tool for time recording (which encrypts it's data FFS Microsoft).
The guy writing the article even found it useful to recover lost work.
Businesses actually get to turn off all the crap btw. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
> The big 'but' for Apple is that they also have a pretty good public track record of telling outside agencies who want into peoples private machines to go pound sand.
*As long as it doesn't impact their ability to continue doing business in that country. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Hey Microsoft,
Go fuck yourself.
Sincerely,
The consumer. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Better dead than red commie | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
It's stored on-device so it'd be pretty damn obvious, yeah. Microsoft doesn't tend to lie to their business customers about stuff like this, they known they only have to piss off the right customer to have a lawsuit on their hands if they were to do that. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Time to move to Linux, I suppose. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
And for what fucking benefit?!? Ooohhh I can search using natural language! But search for fucking what?!? What cigar I possibly need to find that I would have to use natural language? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
It's not his software at this point. The man resigned. He's probably just kicking back and enjoying his millions and doesn't care what they do... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Linux Mint is great for beginners! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
It's like Microsoft employees have methodically infiltrated the company on many levels and want to make as many people as possible to move to non- proprietary OS's (Hello, future "true immutable" Linux Desktop Distros that don't exist yet 👋). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
The amazing things Valve has done with Proton/Steam made my current daily driver laptop Linux-based. I've used Linux since 1999, I've been a Red Hat Certified SysAdmin, but computers in my house that I sit at have been Windows, until now. I was able to play Horizon II on release day. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Fucking lol The headlines on this sub. Yes Microsoft to stock is up to 2.5% over the last few days is having a "PR disaster" right now. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
You're getting a LOT of bad faith answers here with only a few good ones mixed in.
I can't really see much personal use for this.. I \*can\* however see use for this in a professional environment. Especially IT. Have an intermittent issue? Leave this running a bit. (unless the data is sensitive) Need to make instructions for someone? Turn this on.
I think people assume this is always running and always capturing. Im looking at this as a souped up Snipping Tool. There when you need it, \*\*turned off\*\* when you don't. And everything I've read shows it's very easily turned off and is \*\*in your face\*\* when it's actually on. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
> Government and corporations already get professional/enterprise versions of windows that have all the tracking and adware systems stripped out.
lol no we don't. Enterprise has controls to disable it, just like Pro does, but it's absolutely still there. Some things default to being off vs on, but most of it's on by default. I assume this will be too, that's why we've already deployed a policy to disable it and we don't even have plans to buy any of these laptops.
Education has *some* things stripped out but not much, and LTSC has some stuff turned off but nobody sane is using that as their daily driver at scale. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Except they already have encryption, just when the user isn't logged on. So you're wrong.
Also, Microsoft would have gotten in front of this if something that out of line was being posted in major outlets. They haven't, and its been a week. Microsoft has also done little to nothing to earn trust in the last several years. So yeah, instead of fanboying and erring on the tiny chance this was all a misunderstanding that has blown up while they were asleep, some people actually hope to make MS reconsider in the only way we can, threaten their wallets. Unfortunately, people like MS have shown us again and again that's the only thing they'll listen to.
But no, I'm sure it'll all work out, with sunshine and rainbows because Microsoft has only our best interests at heart. Anyone that says otherwise is crazy. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
> Aren't there a bunch of different branches of Linux?
I'd personally recommend Fedora, unless you've got a laptop with a dedicated GPU, and then I'd say Pop_OS! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
I was playing Horizon II on release day on my laptop. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
I'd move to Linux, but what I want doesn't exist yet. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
The US Army, Navy, and Air Force also use Windows. So much for military secrecy. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
This sub is not representative in any way, it's just a small echo chamber where everyone hears what they want to hear. This feature is entirely optional and can be enabled/disabled on a per app basis, plenty want to use it. The claimed "pr disaster" they're going through right now is laughable, their stock has only gone up the last few days. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
They're not called manglement for no reason. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
welcome to /r/linux | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
I'm sorry but it's not even comparable. It's gotten better but Photoshop is still just way ahead of it for serious users. If all you do is edit photos and draw once in a while GIMP is fine but if you really do major graphics work you need Adobe or some vaguely comparable graphics suite.
It's just one of those things. They have dominance in the graphics market for a good reason.
Every once in a while I check out GIMP hoping I can really go there and finally use it just like I use Photoshop but it never quite makes it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
We already can. We don't even have any true monitoring software, just some security tools, and I can already see pretty much everything somebody does if I care to (I don't). If we really wanted to watch people, there are software tools to do that. I don't see them developing this into some kind of corporate spying software, it wouldn't really bring anything to the table that isn't already available. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Pro and Enterprise have recall too as far as I know. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Can this not be disabled somehow? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
If your game is not on steam then the difficulty to get it to work goes up a lot doesn’t it? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Hey I used Windows (and DOS) since I was a little kid. I still use it at work every day. I run it in virtual machines for specific programs at home. I get it, people want to use what's popular and works well enough.
But Microsoft has decided they don't give a flying fuck about what their users think, they want to spy on you and sell you their cloud storage and put ads in front of your face that are baked into the base operating system so you can't get rid of them. If you're cool with that, have fun. If you're disgusted by that, there are alternatives that will use your existing computer and don't involve buying shiny new gizmos. But you might have to apply your brain a little bit and learn something new. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
Yeah man, Microsoft's lawyers are going to risk their legal license to drum up more business... Totally.
You as a consumer may not trust Microsoft, but they don't *really* care. You better damn well believe they care if business and government customers trust them. The majority of their business is business and government, they'd fold faster than Circuit City if they were caught lying about the functionality of security controls. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
It’s all about generating an AI using the entire installed Windows user base. Besides, if you think about who really uses a computer it’s business. The bread and butter of Microsnot. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
I'm stealing this... | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
* Recycle Bin
* Every browser has Web History.
* If I can't replicate it, it's not an issue.
* I can reopen it.
There's literally no actual use for this. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
A lot of the new AI features these companies are selling to end users/consumers are gonna flop. It's great for gaming, but for everything else, tech companies just don't have people's trust anymore. Add on that abuse by cyber criminals. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
>The fact that I don't trust Microsoft with this data isn't even the primary worry.
Exactly! I am willing to trust that Microsoft keeps that data on my PC. But this stuff being on the PC makes it much more interesting for people who want to impersonate me or steal my stuff, and that means this data should be nearly impossible to read. Instead, it's just image files and a SQLite database...
I'd be interested in the feature if and only if the data is stored in a way that can't just be recovered by external software, and if other users on the same system couldn't access the data either. And even then I'd need to see some actual use cases where using this feature was helpful to convince me that I'd actually want it. The way it looks now, I'll just disable the feature as soon as it rolls out. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-07-06 |
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