Posts by The Dogs Meevonks

AMD puts Intel in rear view mirror with Threadripper Pro 9000 high-end desktop chips

Re: 350W!!

My home office has 3 systems in it, the mediaserver that runs 24/7, a work rig that runs 30hrs a week and my personal gaming system that's probably on for an avg of 8hrs a day. It's also in a South facing room that gets lots of direct sunlight.

So I actually leave the doors to the office and the bedroom next door open, to allow the heat to spread throughout the upstairs rooms. It reduces the need for radiators being turned up during the winter. In fact, it's only the North facing master bedroom and ensuite that have their radiators on full as those rooms can easily be 4-5ºC colder than the rear South facing ones... partly due to the bay window and less insulation above it that the rest of the roof. So allowing the extra heat from those rooms to spread out evens the temps upstairs and reduces the need to heating to come on upstairs.

It's a terribly inefficient way to heat a home, but they'd be on anyway... Might as well make the most efficient use of the waste heat that I can.

A friend has the same issue... his solution was to buy a portable AC unit... increasing his power usage significantly. He's much cooler than me in the summer as all I use is a fan to circulate air and open windows... But he's got a smaller house and uses 20-30% more power than me... and that's without factoring in the solar and battery system I have that reduced electric import from around 5500kwh a year to 1500kwh as well as earning me a little extra money of my bills from the export (£151 in 2023, £95 in 2024), this month alone has earned me £36 and the gas/electric bill is currently £25 inc all charges.

Windows 11 24H2 now 'broadly available' ... complete with yet another 'known issue'

Windows 10 holdout

I've refused to 'downgrade' to W11, just like I refused to move to W10 from W7 until I built a new system in 2019 and W7 was EOL... and now that W10 is going EOL this year... I still won't be moving to it.

I'm waiting for proton if I'm honest, I want to play my games, view some websites and watch some videos... I can't watch streaming services on my desktop anyway because they really dislike anyone who uses a VPN and tell you to fuck off. So I'm hoping that proton will be easy to learn and adjust to after decades of windows reliance... I just hope I'm not too old at 45 to learn because I've noticed a reluctance to put in the effort for new software creeping into my attitude recently.

Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe's tech independence

Re: And no search/arrest warrant needed

Ah, the old 'If you've got nothing to hide, nothing to fear' bollocks.

To which my response is always 'If I've got nothing to hide, there's no need to invade my privacy to begin with'

Same response to the UK govt wanting access to peoples bank accounts if they get any benefits, not that they want them to have any benefits and will do everything they can to punish the poor and the disabled... gifting this country to grifters and fascists like farage.

Claims assistance firm fined for cold-calling people who put themselves on opt-out list

What a surprise... oh wait... it's not

The standard process for scammers and scummy people

Set up company

Ignore the law

Get caught

Get massive fine

Wind up company and file for bankruptcy

Can't pay fine

Set up new company

Ignore the law

Get caught

you see where this is going... don't you?

Nvidia paid $1M for Mar-a-Lago meal, US later scrapped AI chip export crackdown

Re: Updated Speech

He's been accused of more rapes and sexual assaults than there are trans athletes in the majority of the world.

Windows intros 365 Link, a black box that does nothing but connect to Microsoft's cloud

Re: Surface Hub reboot?

Sounds more like a thin client device

Windows 11 adds auto-recovery, kills offline setup loophole

Re: Fun game

I've been putting it off for years... I know I need to migrate away from W10Pro this year... But I'm in my mid 40's now and getting to a point where I'm resistant to learning a whole new environment.

As this system is mostly used for gaming and web browsing, and my work system doesn't require an MS account... I've happily avoided having one forever.

I'm kinda waiting to see what Steam OS for desktop is like as that will at least be the most compatible platform to carry on using my games...

One of the last of Bletchley Park's quiet heroes, Betty Webb, dies at 101

Heroes, all of them

I grew up a few miles down the road from Bletchley Park, none of us knew what went on there until stuff was declassified in the 90's and my parents, aunts & uncles as well as all of the grandchildren were shocked to realise that... My gran worked there during the war.

She wasn't involved with any code breaking stuff, she was likely household staff as she'd worked and helped run country homes in the past. She never mentioned it to anyone and sadly died at the end of the 80's before it all came to light.

Couldn't be more proud of my grandparents, my grandfather was a chief petty office onboard a British cruiser and I have his medals on display with his picture in my dining room. Finding out my gran had a minor role in WWII at such an important site had a huge impression on me as a teenager when it all came out.

Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid

Re: There is no such thing as off-grid nowadays

I should also add on my phone, I use the duckduckgo app with tracking protection enabled and a duck.com email address when putting any required email address into forms... that strips out all tracking within emails and forwards it on to me.

Re: There is no such thing as off-grid nowadays

For me, it's not about being off grid, it's about minimising and polluting any information they collect from me.

So that means

- Never using any form of centralised/corporate owned social media (I do use mastodon and have to use whatsapp for family)

- Always use a VPN

- Always use public DNS

- Always use ad/script/cookie blockers in my browser, as well as more privacy focused search engines

- Never use google where possible (Use grayjay for YT, libreoffice and so forth)

- Always use browsers like firefox with containers to block cross tab leakage/tracking

- Pi-hole

- Never use public wifi

- Only install essential apps on my smart phone such as banking.

- Try to avoid any IOT devices (only things I do have are heating & solar/battery system connected to the internet)

There's probably other stuff I do, I even use a plugin that randomly switches what it's reporting as my browser... so occasionally, some websites think I'm a bot/crawler or using linux, or mac, or various browsers.

I can't stop it all, but I can try to pollute the waters and make the data as worthless as possible.

City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster

In other news...

Incompetents, incompetently reject competent things.

'Cybertruck ownership comes with ... interesting fan mail'

Re: spoon-fed by media nonsense designed to make them hate Elon Musk and EVERY technology

It's 2040, you are currently dying from dehydration because the compulsory musketard neurailink chip in your brain has blocked all hydration due tot he expiry of your nestle water+ subscription service.

Re: spoon-fed by media nonsense designed to make them hate Elon Musk and EVERY technology

A quick kick in the meevonks should suffice.

Re: spoon-fed by media nonsense designed to make them hate Elon Musk and EVERY technology

The irony is... that ole Muskrat and his Musketards made me hate them... simply by the words and actions that they themselves did.

If you're at a dinner table with 10 other people, and Musk is invited to sit at the table... and no one speaks out... You now have 11 nazi's eating dinner... Same goes for buying anything produced by a nazi.

Nazi's can fuck off

AMD looks to undercut Nvidia, win gamers' hearts with RX 9070 series

Re: Reality

I tried it too, thought I was playing a game of Wolfenstein.

Probably not worth the upgrade...

My current 6900XT that I paid £530 for in August 2022 (after selling my old 5700XT to my friend for £150, is chugging along fine doing 1440p gaming and with use of FSR/RSR/FMR can easily do 100+fps on any game, closer to the 165hz of the monitor most of the time and far surpass it in many other games... Some of them triple A titles.

With an rebuild of my old 5800X3D system not on the cards for at least another year or two.... until the CPU becomes a bottleneck... what's the point except for bragging rights (look at my new shiny)... But a GPU upgrade is a possibility. It won't be nvidia with their overpriced bullshit. So unless the 9070 range is going to give me at least a 50% improvement over the 6900XT... I'll pass on this gen entirely.

With millions upon millions of victims, scale of unstoppable info-stealer malware laid bare

Can't even use HIBP

Because I use a vpn, firefox along with a few plugins to help protect my privacy... I am met with a 'verify you are human' check box, which them takes about 20 seconds to process, before landing on the homepage... entering one of my email addresses to see if it's been pwned... sends me back to the 'verify you are human' page in an endless loop.

Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

Re: What's the point?

Except... MSO devs have been known to repeatedly move buttons and features just to justify their existence and jobs.... I'd used MSO since the 90's and remember that happening multiple times.

Re: What's the point?

'Convenience' everything shitty about the enshitified internet can be summed up in the single word.

People are lazy, people don't care about their privacy or security until the shit hits the fan and affects them personally. I literally had some one say to me yesterday that they didn't care about apple removing encryption from icloud in the UK because it didn't affect them.

They're unable or unwilling to look beyond the end of their nose, they cannot see the bigger picture and will happily trot along in their ignorance until they're targeted and hacked/scammed by fraudsters... I'm no longer surprised why people continue to use social media, I've warned people who still use shitter that I will cut them out of my life because I want nothing to do with people who support nazi owned platforms and propaganda machines. The result... I cut them out of my life.

But I learned about 13yrs ago, that people are lazy and only care about their personal convenience when I left facebook in late 20011... I made sure my friends had my contact details, I told them I would be on places like telegram & signal... The number of people who started using those apps to stay in touch... was zero. But they always complained 'but you're not on facebook' to justify their own selfish ignorance.

The result... I stopped making an effort with people who refuse to make any... people I'd known since I was 16 are now dead to me almost 30yrs later... I mourned the loss until I realised who they really were and what they really thought of me to put their own convenience above friendship of that long. I moved on, made new friends... Moved to G+ when that was good (zero ads but still data harvesting), moved onto Mastodon after that was shut down.

Ironically, I have more interaction on masto than I ever did anywhere else.

Re: What's the point?

Dumped MS Office about 10yrs ago for personal stuff, and ashamed to admit I started using google docs for non work related stuff. Then I switched to libreoffice a few years ago and haven't looked back. I only use writer and calc for letters and budgets related top my home.

Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud encryption for UK peeps

When conservatives go further to the right, and as the tories have done... the extremist right... they end up dragging others to the right.

Labour are simply old tory... there is no labour party anymore... so a vote for labour, reform or tory is a vote for authoritarianism and fascist wannabe's... vote green or liberal instead. It's the only sane choice now.

For the 'If you've done nothing wrong' morons.

If I've done nothing wrong, then there's no reason for my privacy to be invaded, for my security and safety to be put at risk.... EVER!!!

Any other 'reason' is moot and bullshit for spying on your citizens so you can better control and subjugate them.

Techie pointed out meetings are pointless, and was punished for it

Been there, got my revenge

A long time ago, in a company that I will not name, but that continues to exist in a tiny fraction of what it used to be due to mismanagement and blinkered predictions of how technology would go (they failed to understand smart phones would render their business model obsolete)... I had one of those line managers.

A reverse misandrist... a man who disliked other men, a bigoted little fool who expected everyone to kiss his arse and would try and punish anyone who didn't. A man who tried to pit every one under him against each other (with some success for the weaker minded drones) to avoid the gaze of incompetence falling on him.

A man who was so petty, he tried to sabotage my application for another position on another team by lying to the dept head... who informed me what he'd said. A man who had complaints upheld against him by an incompetent HR who covered it up.

The previous autumn, I had a fling with another woman from another dept. It lasted a couple of months and I was told by her that she'd been involved with a married guy who wouldn't leave his wife and she'd broken it off. I never knew who... but I'm sure you can guess.

The following spring, after yet more attempts by this man to get me in trouble... I'd had enough and during a meeting with his line manager, I threw my resignation across the table at him... This petty little man, continued to try and stir shit up against me and they agreed to put me on garden leave... I'd given 2 months notice, so they had to pay me for that... I went around saying goodbye to people and letting them know what a POS he was.

As I was in the lobby saying goodbye to a few others... he approached me, held out his hand with a smug grin on his face and said 'good luck, and no hard feelings'.

I pulled him a little closer, looked him in the eye and replied 'Sure, and I'm sorry I fucked your mistress'

He went purple and tried to take a swing at me... in front of witnesses, catching me on the shoulder. I turned to the receptionist and asked if she'd be kind enough to call the police, and went up to HR to report the assault.

He was eventually fired, they tried to coerce me into dropping the complaint and not reporting it to the police... To which my reply was short... 'But I don't work here anymore' The police did nothing, but my job was done. I walked back into an old temp job I had before this one, and within 6 weeks of leaving (and before my paid leave ran out) I had a new job with a 50% pay increase.

London has 400 GW of grid requests holding up datacenter builds

How about they're forced to provide 100% of their own power from their own renewables and are charged 100x more per kwh imported, per lt of water consumed and banned from using any kind of fossil fuels or biomass... wind/solar/hydro only.

Who could have seen this coming....

Everyone with a brain and a basic common sense could have seen this coming.

It's almost like, selling off basic utility providers and infrastructure and allowing them to extract untold profits whilst never bothering to invest in upgrading said infrastructure.... was a very bad idea.

Cue a crumbling infrastructure, pollution like we've not seen since the industrial revolution and toothless govt and regulators who refuse to do what needs to be done... nationalise all utilities, remove the 'for profit and fuck the consumers over again and again' side of the equation. Run them at a small profit that is ring fenced to invest and upgrade in the infrastructure and renewables... it's the only fucking thing that makes sense... but goes against the wishes of the govt's corporate overlords and paymasters.

BOFH: Engage Hollywood Protocol – because nonsense always looks legit

Ya got me

I should have seen it coming... I really should have...

But you got me good with the ending.

So I have to applaud you for that... but I also have to say... well... fuck you.... you glorious bastard.

DeepSeek stirs intrigue and doubt across the tech world

The backlash started within 24hrs.

"They stole our models and distilled them for their own"

You mean the models you built by stealing pretty much the entire content of the internet, music, art, books, journals, scientific papers... some one else did to you what you did to everyone else.

Boo fucking hoo you pathetic incel tech bro... suck it up buttercup, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, buy fewer coffees and eat less avocado on toast.

I've been saying all along, that LLM's are just this decades latest pyramid scheme... just like all the other pyramid schemes we've had over the last 30yrs.

Late 90s... the dot come bubble, that burst because billions invested, not enough people online to use/trust new online market places.

2000's... everything went digital, which meant mostly a case of... slapping a tiny LCD on the same old shite and jacking up the price... along with social media and look at the bollocks that quickly became.

2010's... the cloud and crypto... the enshitification of the internet begins with the advent of subscription fees for everything, apps that now require accounts and data slurping to do something within your own home that doesn't even need an online connection... and of course crypto... the ultimate in pyramid schemes loved by the money launderers.

2020's... NFT's and LLM's... and more crypto scams.

It's all shit, it all needs to die... LLM's have a use within industrial areas, they're used to great effect to spot medical issues in scans and so forth... actual creative works... art, music, writing... fuck off.

Boom's XB-1 jet nails supersonic flight for first time

Re: 80 passengers?

Only $5000... that's great if you don't mind only making it about a 3rd of the way across the Atlantic in their plane...

User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?

Re: PC Update

'I was about 18yrs old at that point'

Was meant to be 'It was about 18yrs old at that point'

But when the PII 350 was released, I think I was about 18yrs old... So it kinda works both ways. :)

Re: PC Update

In about 2014, a friend popped down to visit from Scotland, a 250m trip each way.

When he arrived, he had a computer with him, a large beige box... His boss had given it too him, and he wondered if I'd take a look and see if he could upgrade it as it was rather slow.

I opened the side panel, looked inside and laughed.

It was a Pentium II, probably a 350mhz... the one with the Slot A processor... I was about 18yrs old at that point. I don't think they'd even started using AGP slots for graphics at the time, and SD ram.

I told him to either keep it as a time capsule of old computers and run windows 95-98 on it as a retro gaming PC that was never to be connected to the internet... or junk it.

Over the years, I have kept him supplied with PC gear as I upgrade and replace parts... Some I sell at bargain basement prices, others I simply give him. He's usually about 4-5yrs behind the curve, the last 'upgrade' I gave him was an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X a couple of years ago when I replaced it with a 5600G in my mediaserver. He's still running that and my old 5700XT GPU to this day.

Friends & Family are all Tech Illiterate

I have many tales of the tech illiterate... But the best one is a friend begging me to take a look at his laptop because it was 'running slow'

Upon booting it up, which took a few minutes, I got him to log into windows and it took a few more minutes before it was fully ready.

I looked at the right side of the taskbar and was greeted with more icons than you'd ever want to see on a 1024x768 display, with even more hidden.

Everything was running all the time, programs he used once in a millenium... background service.

I went through everything, disabling services, getting rid of 90% of the bloat so that things would only be active when he started the software.

After I was finished, I checked his browser and found half a dozen toolbars added for various things, so I got rid of those.

I went through and cleaned up some other start up stuff that wasn't needed, disabled and removed some MS bloatware that was never used or needed on a non corporate/enterprise machine.

When I was finished, it loaded 5x quicker, and was far more responsive when doing basic tasks.

I presented it back to him, with an explanation of what I'd done... which was my first mistake.

He got very indignant and annoyed, that I'd messed with 'HIS' computer in that way, it wasn't what he'd asked me to do. Trying to explain that you don't need 25 services and background programs running 100% of the time sucking up all of your resources... fell on deaf ears.

That was the last time I ever offered to help him, and it likely won't come as a surprise to hear that I ended our friendship a year or two later after he used the recent death of my brother as a weapon to justify and excuse his own shitty behaviour and trolling on my car club forums.

Shitty people, act like shitty people and sometimes one incident is enough to bring all their past shitty behaviour into sharp focus.

Aside from my immediate family, I refuse to do tech support for friends and neighbours any more.

UK gives Openreach £289M for 4 rural broadband contracts in 'gigabit by 2030' push

Luxury, in my day we had to scribble on a piece of toilet paper and crawl to the exchange through wind, rain and snow to deliver it.

I live on the edge of a small town, not close enough inside the town limits to be getting fibre to the home any time soon, and not rural enough to be a priority.

The FTTC we do get, is a pathetic 37Mb, which after years of getting 70Mb at my old house... feels antiquated.

I've seen them laying cables around the council houses less than a 1/4 mile away... we have no idea if/when they will get to us, but the new housing they've been building for the last few years behind my cul-de-sac is getting it installed with the new builds. We are literally sandwiched between both of those... 100-200yrds in either direction as the crow flies.

We've already lost the landline and everything has to be done over VOIP to save them money whilst making sure that in a power cut we lose the phone line entirely and have to rely on the very poor mobile signal around here.

The enshitification of everything continues to make life worse for people so profits can be increased.

Honey co-founder's Pie Adblock called out for copying GPL'd uBlock Origin files

I tried honey once, many years ago... the amount of money it saved me... zero. It never once found anything to save me a penny.

I thought it was a scam back then and removed it entirely... turns out... I was right. It was a scam, hijacking affiliate links and replacing it with their own to syphon of money from those very people promoting it.

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode

OK, so I did this in less than 20 seconds, with the pistol.

Move to the left wall, wait... shoot the pistol at anything that moves... capatcha complete.

If I a middle aged man can do this in seconds... it's not gonna take a bot long.

HMD Fusion: A budget repairable smartphone with modular flair

Re: nanny-ing software

I've got the HMD T21 tablet, picked it up earlier last year as the price to performance was pretty hard to ignore.

I can't say I've noticed any of that happening, but I don't really use a huge amount of apps on them, it's used as a kindle type of device most of the time, occasionally for some netflix if away from home.

I mainly liked that it had a 10" screen and storage expansion, all for less than £200

BOFH: Printer's festive bips herald a merry mystery for the Boss's budget

Re: "By my calculation, the Boss has now made 12 contactless payments of 100 quid"

As soon as I read' credit card on a lanyard around his neck' ... I wondered how they were going to use a card reader to reallocate some funds for those xmas drinks

Guide for the perplexed – Google is no longer the best search engine

Re: This was predicted - in El Reg - years ago.

I can't speak for the US as I'm in the UK... and I'm talking about monopolies in a free market. Here in the UK British Telecom had the monopoly on phones too for a similar amount of time... Funded in part by taxpayers to build out the infrastructure and was originally operated by the Post Office.

But then again, I've never considered the USA as democratic or a free market... it's a perverse corruption of capitalism that's been taken to such an extreme that it only promotes greed and profit over anything else... including the lives of the people... every single aspect of human existence is for the profit of the few over the suffering of the many there... at least that's how it exists to me in my 45yrs on this planet.

Anything that benefits the people is evil socialism and to fought as commie ideals, the people exist to serve the will and whims of their masters... always have.

Re: You can even sign in...

if an account is required for a service... it's signed up for using my duck email address which strips out all of the tracking crap before being forwarded on to me.

Re: This was predicted - in El Reg - years ago.

Monopolies are usually short lived... and tech moves so fast, whilst users are so fickle and easily distracted by the 'new shiny' that those monopolies lifespans are getting shorter and shorter.

I've seen this coming for years, everything about the whole internet has become enshitified, it's not just search... it's everything. Every service, every app... it all exists for one purpose only now... to serve you ads... to harvest every scrap of personal data you willingly give them to sell to anyone who wants it.

You are no longer a user, you are a product... your being consumed whilst you consume.

The only way to win is not to play.

I do my best to render any data collection as worthless as possible, I block as much as I can, I disable as much telemetry as I can. I can't stop it all, but I can render a lot of it worthless... noise within other noise. My browser (firefox) is set to randomly change what it reports it is and what OS it is on with a plugin called user agent switcher, noscript, privacy badger, ublock origin, a VPN, hosts file and hoping to add a pihole in the new year (guess what I've asked for).

I don't install any apps on my phone that aren't essential.. no games, no social media aside from mastodon and a couple of messaging apps, a couple of retail and banking apps... and that's pretty much it. I use duckduckgo as my search along with the app tracking protection and a duck email address for all sign ups.

Windows 10 pro with OOSU10 to disable as much of the spyware as possible.

I don't want to play anymore... actually... I've never wanted to play. I will do everything in my power to thwart these greedy, insidious arseholes from my life.

Musk's lawyer asks SEC to quit pestering the shy and retiring billionaire

I doubt they'll be able to read once the leopard has eaten their face off.

Win a slice of XP cheese if you tell us where Microsoft should put Copilot next

It should be removed, placed in a lead lined box along with all of the other spyware they peddle, sealed and then used to beat anyone to death with, should they ever mention the merest hint of doing something similar again.

Imagine a land in which Big Tech can't send you down online rabbit holes or use algorithms to overcharge you

Re: Some good ideas but at what cost

"Both sides can be intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them, but the left are the ones determined to block free and open discussion on the issues."

You have to laugh at this argument... because it's ALWAYS used by those who think they should be able to say whatever they want, free from consequences... they expect everyone else to be the bigger person and let them spew whatever bile they want.

The truth is, as per the paradox of tolerance. Once you start extending tolerance to the intolerant, you only encourage them to be MORE intolerant and it becomes normalised... much like the world currently is.

Many of us so called 'lefties' reject your 'tolerance' argument as the ridiculous attempt to make hate acceptable. Bigots can go fuck themselves, nazis should be punched... make them afraid to show themselves in public.

and as per Godwins 2nd law... anyone who uses 'woke' as a perjorative, always turns out to be a complete fuckhead.

The only way to win... is to not be fuckhead.

Re: Some good ideas but at what cost

I can't down vote that....you didn't even need the trollface icon.

Re: Some good ideas but at what cost

Like every other place... el reg has it's share of trolls and the wilfully ignorant. You can easily spot them though, usually spouting/trolling their support of Space Karen, defending the right wing arguments... trying to say their playing 'devils advocate' instead of just admitting that they're bigots and trolls who's lives are so pathetic, that comment sections are their last refuge... they're probably still using Xitter too.

Easy to spot by the downvotes usually... the majority of people on here seem rational, sane and free from the vile bile of most social media.

I realised 99% of social media was toxic 12yrs ago, and have avoided the majority of it since... I am still around online, but in nicer spaces like mastodon, I was on diaspora for a while too... I get more engagement on masto than I ever did anywhere else... with the exception of G+ between 2011-2014 when it was actually good.

Re: The idea that "Echo chambers" are forbidden would kill some Social Media sites immediately

Reclassify all social media as 'publishers' and make them liable for what is posted on their platforms... if they allow hate, lies and scammers to run rampant, they're financially responsible to reimbursing every victim everyone scammed, they're criminally responsible for crimes carried out using their platform.

As soon as you make them responsible for their content, they'll start being more responsible... they've had roughly 20yrs to start acting like adults, they've only become worse and worse because they've NOT been regulated.

It's not Orwellian to expect companies/people to suffer the consequences of their actions... FAFO applies.

Microsoft reboots Windows Recall, but users wish they could forget

The electronic waste will be around long after capitalism has rendered the human race extinct... the planet will be fine in the long run, it will recover and last a few billion more years... we will all be long extinct, nothing more than a flu virus that affected the planet for a few hours one winter of it's existence.

So.....?

I couldn't give a flying fuck if they've improved security, I don't give a shit if they make it the most secure and unhackable piece of technology on the planet.

If they try to force it on anyone, they're utter fucking cunts... offer it as a download if people want it, otherwise they should fuck right off with the idea of it.

Now’s your chance to try Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall ... maybe

This is the bit that people should be really worried about

"Meanwhile, "Recall is removed by default on PCs managed by an IT administrator for work or school, as well as Enterprise versions of Windows 11," Redmond noted."

Because that means they'll be forcing it on everyone else without your permission or consent.

MS inserted copilot onto my system the other day, without permission or consent... it was immediately uninstalled, but they'll do it again and again until they are forced to stop...

It's time to legislate against data harvesting and make it punishable with criminal charges and jail time. I'm tired of being used as a product, I'm tired of my very existence being seen as a means for a tiny few to make money from