Microsoft rolls out Recall for Intel, AMD-based Copilot+ PCs Microsoft is widening the rollout of the Recall Preview to include Dev Channel Windows Insiders running AMD and Intel-based Copilot+ PCs. The update arrived with build 26120.2510 of Windows 11 and means more Insiders – not just those with Arm-compatible Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ PCs – will be able to join in the …
It is all you MS uses a little Crimble present from Big Brother. Don't like it? You know what to do....
If you stay with MS and all this shite not only gets installed without your approval, and activated then you deserve all that you get and it won't be nice.
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Why do they keep pushing this obviously extremely intrusive and Bad IdeaTM? There must be some hidden agenda at play here.
No sane person would ever want to add yet another level of intrusion, which will end up in Microsoft's machine learning inbox and definitely will be accessed by any and all Three Letter Agencies (and equivalents) all over the world.
Thr "hidden agenda" is to sell PC's. The industry isn't worried about types like us; Microsoft is trying to create a need for the 'AI PC's" that World+dog are out to push to get the computer industry out of the sales doldrums. Since the entire industry is betting its sour hopes on a hype, Microsoft needs to be there to try to create a desirable usage paradigm that will get people & businesses to open their wallets.
Hey, I'm only talking to truth, don't shoot the messenger.
The hype cycle is to sell product. The industry is trying to create a "need" to sell the hype, and to have everyone buy it they have to buy into it - the great unwashed need to believe the hype in order to get their (naive) pockets open.
Welcome to late stage capitalism. You're gonna just love it here! [/s]
I am convinced that Microsoft has a fetish for AI right now because they know in their history they have missed on some big moneymaking ideas. For example: Windows Phone was a knee-jerk reaction to iPhone and Android; it failed badly. Zune was a knee-jerk reaction to iPod; it failed badly. Bing is a knee-jerk reaction to Google; it is still struggling against Google both in market share and performance.
Microsoft doesn't want to be left behind again. So they are doubling down -- actually quadrupling down -- on what the know-nothing know-it-all's say is the next BIG thing. While AI will have its uses, for the vast majority of people it will be useless.
I have decided to once a week to offer a polite suggestion through Microsoft's feedback hub telling them how we, the users of Windows, do not want Co-pilot or anything AI in any form. I even told them that I am willing to pay to make it go away. Maybe if we organize a polite "AI GO AWAY" spamming campaign on the feedback hub, Microsoft will finally get it through their thick skull how unwanted this is. (It must be polite, otherwise it goes straight to the trash bin.)
Hmm. Haven't tried it, but presumably you end up with a bricked PC. Which might be more productive that Windows 11, but less useful than inserting a bootable medium containing something like Linux Mint and rebooting (and doing whatever is required by your firmware to get the machine to boot off the medium).
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I do NOT want "Windows Recall" anywhere NEAR my systems. Combined with the MANDATORY secure id key public key half of the cipher, the NSA and any other authority in the US now has the technical capability to surreptitiously monitor any and all PCs in North America that have WIndows 11 installed, in any size, shape, or form, save for Windows Server, where the secure key infrastructure remains optional.
That is a LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE IDENTIFIER FOR THE OWNER OF ANY SCREENSHOTS THEY CHOOSE TO UPLOAD FROM YOUR SYSTEM. And the odds are in the corporate world, your boss and the security goons now have the same capability to monitor and prove what you are actually DOING with your time at work.
Welcome to 1984, people. The USA thinks its a guideline, not a warning. Stupid @$)@& fools...
This morning in the wee hours of 2024-12-09, I opted to nuke my Windows 11 Pro boot partition and its games, and reformat it for use under Ubuntu 24.04. I then did the ever popular magic "sudo update-grub" to remove the no-longer-existing Windows boot EFI entry from the boot manager.
I'm already losing games from Rockstar because I lost access to an old email account - why not scrap the 10% that don't run properly under Steam with Linux while I'm at it? I also lose my GOG games, but there were only 7 I had installed, and I hadn't actually played any of them in ages, just configured them and set them up - over and over as I shuffled systems around and redid drive locations and game libraries over the past years since building the initial core of what has become my current box through judicious upgrades the whole life of its existence.
But I digress.
Bye-bye, Bill, Satya, any and all things Microsoft...
My only regret is Ubuntu is hosted on US soil, and clearly the NSA have more hooks out there than we ever dreamed... but I certainly wouldn't want to try to shoehorn the NVidia tensor stack onto a Debian box that doesn't support that type of stuff by default...
Turns out that a) I forgot about my Microsoft X-Box controller, which I wouldn't trade for anything except a replacement with same, and b) it turns out the Halo collection runs just fine with Proton Experimental... I never did get around to playing it, despite owning it for at least a couple of years. I've only ever finished few enough games to count them on my fingers, and that gets cut in half if you don't want to count the Quake II mission packs as separate games.
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