Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.
If I want to save something I’ll back it up myself. My attitude toward an OS remembering what I do: “We don’t know each other and I was never here.”
What a surprise, the spy software is spying on you.
Maybe by “sensitive information” they mean theirs.
Let me try: hunter5
Must be working, all I see is ●●●●●●●
bash.org ftw
I put on my wizard hat and robe.
Although not the exact topic covered in the article, as you wouldn’t necessarily be sending sensitive information like that to other people, but it’s important to note that this means nothing you’ve sent before is safe.
It’s not enough that from “now on” you don’t send anything you wouldn’t want Recall to capture, if you’ve already sent it and someone with Recall captures it then it’s compromised. It’s not just your own device that you need to worry about, it’s also everyone you might contact or have ever contacted.
Prompt injection acrobatics via cortana playing sounds from a hacked speaker
We all saw that coming.
steamOS cannot come any sooner for desktop
You don’t need SteamOS. It’s likely not going to solve any problems for you that aren’t solved elsewhere. It’ll be good for console-like devices, but just use a normal desktop distro for a desktop computer.
I like Garuda Dragonized for gaming. It comes set up with a lot of gaming stuff already, and makes it easy to install a bunch of other gaming related packages you may want.
Theres no need to wait for Valve. The problem is solved already.
eh? I tried gaming with lutris fairly recently and I’d call it far from solved.
it’s in a better spot than a decade ago
Im excited to live in that world.
Any game that relies on BS DRM like Denuvo that refuses to work for SteamOS can die in a fire.
Most of the are shitty multiplayer games anyways.
next PC upgrade won’t feature any Intel or Nvidia, full AMD full glorious Linux under steamOS hopefully
There’s so many others you can use right now.
Most of the distros run steam great out of the box. Our biggest problem is video card updates breaking crap. Linux Tech Tips scared a bunch of people off by not reading a warning message on an update then refusing to seek any help when something broke.
Since the first steam machine in 2008 it’s all I’ve ever wanted…
I’m using bazzite for now in lieu of that
Is there a way to turn this off?
DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:RecallRun 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.
Thanks for mentioning microWin. A tool I didn’t know I needed. I figured none had been made since XP’s Tweaks.
You’re welcome. Just keep in mind that removing Recall from the W11 ISO apparently also reverts Explorer to the W10 version.
Oh noooo
. . . anyway
To each their own, but I think the one is better in every way (while still lacking basic functionality).
yeahhhh I’m still using classic shell
Both “problems” I’m happy to deal with.
Thanks for making it nice and user friendly… most of my elders go into a kind of fugue state when they see the terminal
This this more of a by product of the design than anything.
Its almost like this was a bad idea to begin with.
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.
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
Microsoft really cares about security
As long as it doesn’t get in the way of money
Our financial security!
Every year I’m happier and happier that I touch MS products only when paid to do so.
I only need access to a terminal for my job, i would be so happy if i could run linux on my work laptop.
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®”™.
Same my only experience with windows (and w11) is at work (exception being my vr flight sim pc).
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.
problems with their shit has been paying the bills here for over twenty-five years now.
You have to be truly an idiot these days to still be using Windows.
You have to be a complete idiot these days to think everyone is able to use another solution
What do you gotta be to think bajillions of people are idiots? Besides cripplingly cynical
Or maybe that’s all you know
That doesn’t make you an idiot
Where else am I throw the computer, a wall?
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.
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.”
Good luck changing OS on every user’s laptop in a Fortune500 organization to Linux and then managing policies for them.
I worked for F500 and didn’t touch Windows once.
Edit: looked it up and actually I still work for a F500 😅 And still didn’t touch Windows in like 20 years.
Cool, was it the same for all other employees there?
No.
That’s my point.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft: there won’t be bugs
This isn’t a bug. It is by design
