Windows Recall AI snapshots stored in an unencrypted SQL file in appdata. Apparently. Already there is scripts to install it on unsupported devices.

[Morch Ponkey]

 

[Wax]

Poojeets are not only evil but completely incompetent. An actual cancer upon humanity. Every facet of society they infest becomes completely rotten.

 

[Margo Martindale]

I hate to burst your bubble but no you can actually open files in Linux too and the super user can read any file because that's basically the whole fucking point of a computer. I

This. A device which I own that I can't access my own files one is a device that is user hostile and you have no clue what it could be doing.

 

[BradCarter]

Trying to remember the name of the Korean restaurant your friend Alice mentioned

But stuff like this makes windows worth it! I don't have to message Alice and ask "Hey what was that restaurant we were talking about?". I just have to install omnipresent, unsecured Spyware! Linux troons btfo.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

This fucking creepy shit is why when Installing Windows 11 I asked to opt out of these so called features in fear of surveillance.

Q. Are Microsoft a big, evil company?
A. No, that’s insanely reductive. They’re super smart people, and sometimes super smart people make mistakes. What matters is what they do with knowledge of mistakes.

Yes it fucking is you kike loving cunt!

 

[Gog & Magog]

Yes it fucking is you kike loving cunt!

If only he'd call for them and their families to be beheaded. That'd be based and hilarious. He'd be blackballed from the industry and life completely ruined but that wouldn't be our problem. How dare he.

 

[Red flaming panda]

>NO, MICROSOFT IS NOT AN EVIL COMPANY! THE COMPANY IS FILLED WITH THE MOST PROGRESSIVE AND SMARTIST PEOPLE ON EARTH! IT WAS JUST A HONEST MISTAKE! HOW DARE YOU EVEN INSIST THAT THEY'RE EVIL, YOU STUPID FUCKING CHUD!

 

[Cowboy Christ]

This takes spyware to a new level. In this era, computers for normal people are just security hazards in and of themselves.
Windows computers, computers you can just walk into a store and buy with your own damn hands, truly are for niggers now.

 

[LiquidKid]

Yes they are evil shut the fuck up faggot

I think he had to put that in so people wouldn’t write off his entire post as “Microsoft bashing” and refuse to listen to the extremely horrifying security flaws he pointed out

 

[Thé au lait]

how long until spyware finds a way to quietly re-enable it

inb4 event viewer re-enables it, or it still gets sent out and just not saved locally

LibreOffice

I know there are many Office choices but MS Office apps are the ones I've been using as long as I've been using computers.

LibreOffice doesn't work great when you're surrounded by Windows users, sadly. If you're not hardcore about using FOSS, then WPS is a good option that works almost the exact same as Office.

I have an interesting feeling that this may indeed by the thing that triggers "The Great Linuxing" that has been predicted for the last 2 decades.

"It's definitely happening this time guys!"
Remember "Eternal September"? Get ready for that to happen with Linux if the great switch ever happens.

 

[Obnoxious Asshole]

Just make the NSA's work that much easier Microsoft. It's not like they're picking the couches apart for spare change. Thanks for the motivation to never upgrade my machines again.

 

[karz]

I wouldn't have an issue with Copilot or the Recall feature if they were optional downloadable add-ons to Windows - I could go to www.microsoft(dot)com/copilot for example and download an executable that adds Copilot as a feature to my desktop. That would be pretty neat.
Both features are currently being added to stock Windows 11, which makes me strongly consider moving to Linux.

Oh, and not to mention that the Feds are having a field day over this. I've heard through the grapevine that the FBI in particular is lobbying very hard against adding this feature to stock Windows 11 as there is a chance it could severely compromise ongoing investigations.

 

[Miller]

2024: Year of the Linux Desktop.
(don't @ me)

 

[HahaYes]

But what about the offices and corporations and governments out there where the ENTIRE I.T. sector is just one big Microsoft enclave? How are you gonna get the fuckers in charge to change? How the fuck are they gonna deal with it? It's already a trial to get normies to use computers at work, imaging having to make them actually learn anything to do with computers!

This is why I hate Microsoft the most. They are a monopoly and they make the lives of everyone worse, even the people who leave their monopoly.

It's not even just the operating system in this case as well, it's all the architecture that's tied to Microsoft which you can't really get away from without a massive project and a good 3 or more years of work in large scale enterprise environments that really keeps them stuck there. Even if you shift your full userbase and all your servers/DCs to an OS that isn't windows, the underlying support is likely still going to be tied to Microsoft in some way IE active directory, exchange online etc. Microsoft products only play nicely with other Microsoft products as well which further complicates things. They're well and truly en-grained in enterprise and it's a hassle to find functional alternatives that don't absolutely shit themselves so much it writes them off before you've even had a chance to review it.

 

[JT Marlin]

Windows 10 LTSChads keep winning.

 

['Ole Dente]

As a young man, I was always frustrated at why people like this make these things and never consider the implications that it can be twisted and abused for the benefit of others.

As an older man, I realized that was entirely the point.

 

[Drip Torch]

So that's why I never switched over to 11. Saved by being retarded with technology again!

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Man, already everyone knows I jack it to milf porn and can’t steal from my net balance of like ten dollars. Whatever.

 

[Prj4MW8iPT3vmFM2rzDc]

After this feature was announced like a month ago, I decided not to put windows on my new computer build. Long and behind, the shit's already hacked and compromised.

Fucking foresight. Unreal

 

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If you can't uninstall it, how long until spyware finds a way to quietly re-enable it, scrape your data, and then send it out to criminals?

If you have malicious software on your computer, it can just log keys. Which would actually capture passwords you type. Which this doesn't. Unless you type passwords in plain text fields.

Or, if you're a dipshit and use the Chrome password manager, malicious software can just dump all your passwords out of that.

And where applications 'hide' passwords but use the standard Windows 'password' text box (won't work for modern web browsers but will for most everything else) the Windows APIs to access the passwords are well documented. You can use Nirsoft BulletsPassView to scrape them easily or use Microsoft Spy++ to help you build a way to scrape them through the Microsoft accessibility APIs.

Oh, and not to mention that the Feds are having a field day over this. I've heard through the grapevine that the FBI in particular is lobbying very hard against adding this feature to stock Windows 11 as there is a chance it could severely compromise ongoing investigations.

You are a subhuman retard.

The FBI, just like any other government org/company with more than a few employees can and will have disabled Recall via Group Policy.

For the same reason that they don't have an official policy of officially recording interviews with targets (they do record interviews always, but only log them into evidence if someone says something incriminating- if they don't they delete the recording and then write up a false report).

So Recall will not negatively impact the internal operations of the FBI.

So that only leaves its impact on those being attacked by the FBI.

How, on earth, do you think that some of their targets having even more readily twistable 'browsing history' is going to hurt them?

Some Japanese games get polished up for Windows but are fucky on Proton (interface dies, videos don't play, etc).

I checked WineHQ and RapeLay gets a Silver score for Wine, it might even work better in Proton. I'm sure the situation isn't that much worse for most other popular Japanese games.

!Which reminds me! Some Steam games have a buggy/unplayable Linux version, is there a way to run the Windows version with Proton instead?

If you go into the Properties for the game (right click in the library) you can force it to use a compatibility tool (usually just set Proton Experimental unless there's something weird going on).