WHAAAT? I would NEVER expect that from a company so good that cares about me and my data. They even tell me that in the perfect operating system! Windows! I just love bloat and ads and ai everywhere on my 150$ piece of software!!!
Not mine. There are a lot of reasons not to use Windows, and this is just one of them.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
Why would you want to use that as a user. Like what is it for
That AI is going to be copying a lot of "I put on my robe and wizard hat"
woah, what, i can't believe it
Shocked!
Just a tip: if you must use consumer editions of Windows regularly, consider adding an automatic provisioning tool like AME to your workflow.
The example above uses customizable “playbooks” to provision a system the way docker compose would a container image, so it can fill the role of a VM snapshot or PXE in non-virtualized local-only scenarios.
The most popular playbooks strip out AI components and services (there are many more than just Recall) but also disable all telemetry and cloud-based features, replace MS bloatware with preferred OSS, curtail a truckload of annoying Windows behaviors, setup more sensible group policies than the defaults, and so forth.
I have a few custom playbooks for recurring use cases so that, when one presents, I can spin up an instance quickly without the usual hassle and risk.
We did not take the easy path of writing our app in Java or a web-based Java-script heavy framework. Using C# and .NET allows us to craft an experience that minimizes resource use and is very fast.
This got me good. I just love how they try to make using .NET for making a windows application "not the easy path".
Sounds kinda interesting though. If I'm ever so unlucky as to having to use Win11, I will give it a try.
I guess it is nowadays compared to PWAs.
Lol I noticed the same. They evidently have some ongoing internal disagreement as to their target audience. Docs and functionality says “our audience is enterprise developers” but their marketing definitely says “our audience is end users.”
It may be explained by recent partnerships with former custom ISO devs (seeking legitimacy and offering a sizable user base in turn). I expect the plan is eventually to sell premium support for an enterprise toolset, but for now their target audience is the non-dev-but-tech-savvy end user. And those happen to be surprisingly opinionated re: java and electron.
consider adding an automatic provisioning tool like AME to your workflow.
The example above uses customizable “playbooks” to provision a system the way docker compose would a container image, so it can fill the role of a VM snapshot or PXE in non-virtualized local-only scenarios.
I know what most of these words mean individually
Basically, a playbook is a set of instructions or baselines for how you want the system to look/be setup, and the provisioning tool will engage in however many tasks are required to configure the system to your specifications. I played around with something similar with PowerShell DSC, and its pretty cool to be able to eliminate config drift when it checks against the config and remediates any changes that weren't updated in the playbook.
Basically, a playbook is a set of instructions or baselines for how you want the system to look/be setup, and the provisioning tool will engage in however many tasks are required to configure the system to your specifications.
so... ansible?
I see, that clears things up somewhat. Thank you!
This looks like useful stuff; thanks for sharing. I'm not on Windows myself any more, but this looks like info with passing on to those in my life who are.
This is really interesting! I’ve usually installed Winaero Tweaker back when I still used Windows, if I knew this existed I probably would’ve gone with this instead. Having access to “playbooks” would be quite handy.
They say you can disable Recall by keep pornhub videos running in foreground.
Sorry, boss, but this girl-on-girl playlist is to protect our sensitive data from Microsoft
In 1998, who could have predicted that in 2025, users would be the lords of porn pop-ups?
Forcing the Eye of Microsoft to gaze my mommy milker daddy dwarf bangers is truly the quintessential example of that which is nameless in the Tao.
pornado,
Damn, what's the opposite of 1984?
LMAO!!
You can also disable Recall by using a Linux distro
Have Frozen running in the foreground. I'm half tempted to install Windows on a VM and just have Frozen running on a loop.
Make Disney and Microsoft fight it out in court.
The ~~cold~~copyright never bothered me anyways.
—Microsoft
be more malicious run PH and various porn sites.
This is the highest-quality, shocked Pikachu I've ever seen.
Higher resolution but looks worse imo. Someone probably threw it in illustrator, used that auto vector tool or whatever and exported as high res without fixing the lines.
Or just used an auto-upscaler.
Well at least there are all kinds of checks and balances to prevent big tech and the US Government from abusing this information, right? Thank goodness we have no reason to worry about it being used for political surveillance and identifying who to send to foreign concentration camps, or anything like that.
everywhere is copying your private messages. Google, facebook, microsoft, reddit, your phone texts, anything you've ever posted anywhere. This isn't news
So we should be okay with it? What's your point?
The general public isn't fully aware of the negative implications of it yet. That means it is news.
🐧 lol
Ahh the good ol roll over and die tactic. Americans never fail to lick a companies boots.
No shit?
to vast majority of people this is unthinkable. They will also likely just not even notice news like this because they dont pay attention to such things and likely dont even care about their personal info until something bad happens to them because of that.
Stealing this info and posting it publicly is an important way to fight back. Once prole hear their credit card is being defrauded because of recall it will be untenable for it to stay
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