Kevin BeaumontJan 4, 2023

If you’re outraged about Adobe sending your pictures off their servers (you should be), please know other vendors do this too. That horse has already bolted.

Eg Microsoft Edge automatically sends your key presses in Edge to MS - enabled by default https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/how-to-disable-writing-assistance-via-group-policy/td-p/3648422

Microsoft Office 365 sends every photo and screenshot you add in Word, PowerPoint etc (including in emails) to Microsoft 365 Intelligent Services without prompt https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/everything-you-need-to-know-to-write-effective-alt-text-df98f884-ca3d-456c-807b-1a1fa82f5dc2

How to disable writing assistance via Group Policy

Hello,   new Edge version 106 has got settings "Use writing assistance". I look for matching settings in group policy for Edge but with not succes. I use the latest adml and admx files.  Group setting Disable spellcheck will help but only for Edge 104 (and lower). Edge 106 has replaced settings Spel...

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Show threadMeow.tar.gz  Jan 5, 2023
@GossiTheDog If anything at all, you've provided more proof as to why people need to use #opensource software and get away from proprietary shit.
Show threadJ🍩hn Fünk

@ablackcatstail @GossiTheDog So much this. I totally get that going completely FOSS isn't viable for all use cases, but those who are able should go as FOSS as they can, even if they're not open source dorks like us.

LibreOffice lacks a lot of features MS Office users have become accustomed to, and yeah, that's an issue. But it's quite viable as a daily driver office suite for most people, most of the time.

Jan 5, 2023 at 5:18pmWeb
Show threadMeow.tar.gz  Jan 5, 2023
@probablyjohnfunk @GossiTheDog I use Libre at home. I have to have Windows VM at home but it's simply for days when I work from home. My daily driver for a desktop is Ubuntu. All my home servers and router are all powered by OpenBSD.