John
nixCraft 🐧Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 users will not be able to uninstall the controversial “Recall” feature, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise. Recall, part of the Copilot+ suite announced in May, automatically captures screenshots of user activity on the operating system including sensitive information such as passwords or financial data https://digitalmarketreports.com/news/25091/microsoft-recall-feature-on-windows-11-not-removable-after-all/ Do yourself a favor and get rid of Windows from your life—enough of these greedy companies. #privacy #security
This feature is a wet dream for three letter agencies or bad actors. It can’t get better than this. What next turns off TLS? I don’t know a single security researcher who will recommend this feature.
Asterisk 🇨🇦@nixCraft At least it’s offline (for now)
It’s not like this feature is on an OS that’s full of holes or anything 
Michael Simard 🇨🇦
kappert
Melroy van den Berg
mikeTesteLinux@nixCraft More than a wet dream for any spy agency. We will call it SpyOS instead of windows. Confirm my choice to switch to Linux even more.
pr06lefs@nixCraft How could anyone recommend this OS to orgs that work with sensitive data?
🐈⬛David Sommerseth
Que
Francisca Sinn@BabblingGeek @dazo @pr06lefs @nixCraft And law firms. I want to know how they’re going to address this.
Kevin Russell
Samantaz Fox@SamantazFox @dazo @pr06lefs @nixCraft
Its searchable, use "site:" to search your fave tech site for Samsung TV screen capture.
@SamantazFox @dazo @pr06lefs @nixCraft
One of the several headlines...
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/12/12/your-smart-tv-knows-what-youre-watching
They also listen, (that fun if your "smart tv" is in your bedroom). or Republicans want your voice transcripts over a decade.
"Samsung's warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter"
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/samsungs-warning-our-smart-tvs-record-your-living-room-chatter/
https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/samsungs-warning-our-smart-tvs-record-your-living-room-chatter/
Cybarbie
c-x-b 
Syphist 
@nixCraft there is a whole political movement to indeed disallow e2e encryption. It's insane. But true.
Handler Skyler@nixCraft OR? More like 'and'
Laux Myth (aka Martin)@nixCraft
You can simply be security aware and see the problems and risks. Use of researcher suggests a rare highly informed person.
You can simply be security aware and see the problems and risks. Use of researcher suggests a rare highly informed person.
bananas_pizza@nixCraft users will just install yet another debloat script that works and looks like crap and continue support Microsoft with their money not even thinking about moving to other OSes and showing MSFT their opinion in the only logical way
Epistomai@alihan_banan @nixCraft Unfortunately, it's true I kept arguing to an IT manager who claims cybersecurity and pushes win11 every time. I don't want to waste my time anymore
Bruce Heerssen 
Foxhack@alihan_banan @nixCraft ... you think people pay money to Microsoft for Windows?
They don't! That's why they're so aggressive with the ads and bloat and crap!
@Foxhack @nixCraft most of PCs sold and so used in world for last, idk, 15 years are laptops and much more PCs in the world are prebuilt PCs or laptops for corporate sector. Both laptops and prebuilt corporate PCs are mostly coming with windows preinstalled and of course windows price is included in the price of these PCs. People pay for windows and in 2022 they made 14 billion USD purely from windows.
Pomax@alihan_banan @Foxhack @nixCraft People don't pay for Windows, though, they just pay for laptops, just as when they buy a mac: the OS is already on there, and the fact that it's "part of the price" is an accounting detail for the seller, not the buyer.
Gustavo@alihan_banan @nixCraft I just can't: it's easier for me to change jobs than to Autodesk to release their main products for Linux. I use AutoCAD and Revit everyday, if I was a professional software developer it would not be a problem.
Daniel@nixCraft I think you just #fediddosed the website.
🪨@nixCraft If I can't uninstall something from my computer, it's not my computer anymore. One more reason to run on Linux...
George Liquor, American@Varpie @nixCraft The Windows OS never belonged to you in the first place. This was Microsoft's first groundbreaking "innovation" in the tech space: licensing their OS rather than letting you control your own device. This has been their business model since the days of MS-DOS and it's the reason Bill Gates is richer than god.
Sascha Presnac 🙄🤦♂️@nixCraft Still open for recommendation for an affordable gaming-linux laptop (17+" size) (Must not be Linux pre-installed).
ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)@chiraag @nixCraft @frameworkcomputer I have seen that, it looks nice, but it is too expencive for me
@paladin @nixCraft @frameworkcomputer That's too bad. I view it more as an investment in an almost 'forever' laptop rather than a "regular" laptop purchase, so I was able to justify spending the extra money.
@chiraag @nixCraft @frameworkcomputer I would agree to this argument but in real life, you cannot spend money you do not have (or at least I am not going to do that anymore) .... maybe after I won in lottery or something like that, but right now, it is out of my possibilities.
@paladin @nixCraft @frameworkcomputer Absolutely true (in terms of not spending money you don't have)! I hope you find a laptop that fits your parameters 😊
Charlie
StenPett / St Midium
draeath
RejZoR@nixCraft I would if I wasn't gamer. All my other systems run Ubuntu, but for games, especially older ones or online with anticheat, Windows is still required because I don't have time or nerves to fuck around to make games just work. Which is unfortunate because I like Ubuntu's GNOME so much more than stupid Windows 11 today.
CohenTheBlue@rejzor @nixCraft Enable Proton in Steam, most games will run. Especially older ones should run better on Linux. True about anticheat, Spectre Divide, Valorant and some others won't run. Apex Legends, The Finals, Hunt: Showdown should run (Hunt Showdown has problems with it's server pinging implementation but that should be so for all platforms).
A good place to check compatibility is https://www.protondb.com
Also look into using https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode , should have packages in most repos.
@rejzor @nixCraft ow we definitely can blame games for that. Since there was recently even drama about a game that used to work under Linux, and they didn't test Linux when "improving" the anti-cheat. Every single anti cheat system could work fine under Linux or wine/Proton, if the developers also test under Linux.
@rejzor @nixCraft Forgot to mention Heroic games launcher in my other reply, runs Epic, Gog and Amazon games. https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher
Ignore prev or I'll kill u@rejzor Can't you just downgrade to Windows 10 or pirate the LTSC version?
@Reshirams_Rad_Slam I actually loved Windows 11 until Microsoft started pushing stupid Edge non stop and adding dumb artificial hardware requirements like TPM, dumb online account and stupid CPU instructions that somehow make relatively new Ryzen CPU "obsolete" and this garbage is mostly "requirement" for dumb Ai crap that I don't even care about. And I just don't have time or nerves to constantly hack the dumb OS to just stop bothering me. I bet 24H2 will demand online account...
FediThing 
Reminiscent of the Xbox One having that built-in camera that could not be switched off or removed or covered up.
(...though they did have to back off that one in the end.)
Schrödiɲger's Femboy 
@FediThing @nixCraft drink verification can to continue