Technology @lemmy.world Tux @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Windows Recall is secretly installed and enabled on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)

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Set up a new pc for someone today. Turned off all the OneDrive backup options. Rebooted and copied their files from a USB to SATA adapter. They turned the backup settings back on again!

Can't trust Microsoft.
- Yep. I’ve set up Windows a few times recently, and they don’t give even the slightest consideration for your settings. Few days later, they changed right back.
  
  They will be configured to benefit Microsoft first. Maybe not immediately. But it sounds like a losing game.
  
  You need to make a Powershell script or batch that uninstalls/turns off the feature and then make a scheduled task that runs the ps1/bat at login.
  
  Its insane that this is what you have to do to keep this shit off your system, but it's effective.
  
  I had to do this with New Outlook because it kept reinstalling after Windows updates.
- They "trust me" dumb fucks
  
  May not have been Gates that said it, but it embodies an attitude which appears prevalent throughout big business.
  
  Edit: O&O Shut Up is a free tool that helps you easily turn off/disable quite a few of the worst "features" on Windows.
  
  I think that was The Zuck.
  
  You would be correct.
  
  There's Windows 11 IoT LTSC if you really need Windows, but Microsoft is going to continue to fuck its users, and I don't know why people in the know would choose to continue to use an OS that's actively working against them when non-corporate, open source alternatives exists (Linux, or for the more niche people, BSD, Haiku, Redox)
  
  I don’t think PCVR works on Linux yet. The gaming support on Linux being driven largely by Valve is removing a lot of the reasons for consumers to use Windows, though. I wonder how long before big corporations push back on this Microsoft spyware, though.
  
  I don't own a VR headset, but I thought SteamVR worked fine on Linux. Gamescope even has specific VR modes.
  
  I can speak from experience having used both wired (Index) and wireless (Pico 4 with ALVR) VR on Linux and the performance and stability is horrible. Always has been sadly. I can play some VR games on Linux but overall it's not worth it in the current state.
- Can’t trust Microsoft.
  
  Always has been.
- Sure but they are so criminal they turn them right back on in an update.

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