According to Microsoft's documentation, a user can only change the setting to enable or disable the new People section three times a year.

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[–] 103 points 11 months ago (15 children)

three times a year.

WTF is up with MS doing this rate limiting? I just learned that Win11 will lock you out of your own machine for 2 hours if you restart too many times, like if you have a dualboot and are doing something that requires restarts to resolve.

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  • [–] 34 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    What the shit? Ooh, I need to test this on my work computer!

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    it's a very good feature. if you have too much work and need a longer break, just restart a few times. i may need to change my work laptop from macbook to a windows

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    You have a work MacBook? Man, your company must be filthy stinkin' rich.

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  • [–] 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

    This is why I decided to dual-boot Ubuntu and Win10 until I'm fully comfortable on Linux. Every single thing about Win11 just makes my skin crawl.

    Last week it was the news that they're eliminating methods to install the OS at all without being signed into a MS account. The degree of snooping had no plausible explanation other than for Microsoft to harvest and sell your data.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    As someone who was in your exact position several years ago, nice!

    I'd recommend Linux Mint to newcomers though. It's based on Ubuntu and is even easier to get comfortable with (much better GUI for updates and app "store"), but it strips out all the Microsoft-like stuff that Canonical have been doing in recent years.

    Pop!_OS (also based on Ubuntu) and Bazzite are also meant to be beginner friendly, and are particularly geared towards gaming on Linux, especially the latter.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I actually went with Tuxedo OS, which is based on the Ubuntu kernel but has a very noob-friendly desktop environment.

    My daily driver laptop is a 12-year-old Hackintosh MBP that I've been repairing for years, but I've priced out a Tuxedo laptop for when it finally kicks the bucket. So I started dual booting Tuxedo on that as well to get my bearings.

    Once I'm a little more experienced, I'm definitely interested to check out other distros! Right now it's a lot of looking up terminal commands and learning the architecture. The firmware fan control in the MacBook is shot - fans blasting at full speed due to a failed GPU temp sensor that makes the computer assume it's overheating - so I've already learned how to write to /sys/ with a custom fan control based on the working sensor in the CPU die.

    It's been really fun so far. You get the sense of just having vastly greater control over the hardware at a low level and the ability to control how it functions in a way that Windows and MacOS completely obfuscate. I still have very little idea what I'm doing in the terminal, but I'm starting to pick it up.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    I started with mint, but the more I see about Bazzite the more I wish I had started there. It just seems slightly more aligned to my needs.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Preventing their shitty brute force protection from allowing someone to get a users MS account password because they are FORCING users to use a non-local account?

    The computer would have to store a hash locally to authenticate that account offline, so this is very likely why this is here. Because they've enabled a path to brute forcing their cloud accounts without their servers knowing.

    The windows shithole is just layers of bad design all the way down.

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  • [–] 57 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    If I hadn't abandoned OneDrive already, this would make me do so.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah but they are taking your data from the laptop your mum bought yesterday and put all the family vacation pictures on. Mum didn't know she had to kill off OneDrive or Microsoft will hoover up and monetise your memories.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Fortunately not... I'm generally the one responsible for IT maintenance with my parents' as they get older. Disabled OneDrive long ago since they don't use it.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    No, you really, truly can’t “rugged individualism” your way out of a societal problem. Remember that wedding you went to a few months ago? Someone uploaded this photos and now your social graph has been recorded. When your friend’s kid had a birthday party a few weeks ago? You were uploaded and graphed again. When you were out at that restaurant and you were in the background of someone’s date selfie? Graphed again.

    The only solution to this problem is real data protection law, like the GDPR in the EU.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Oh, I definitely agree. We need better privacy and data protection laws here in Australia too. In the meantime, however, I do what I can to minimise my footprint. I'm well aware that other people are going to be the weak link!

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  • [–] 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    By mates, do they mean buddies or procreative partners?

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The fuck is that goddamn thumbnail. You keep shalehket out of this shit.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago

    Ha, joke's on you Microsoft: I don't have any mates.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    I think that’s why it’s recommended to encrypt files containing personal information with a separate tool before uploading them to any cloud service. It prevents big data from automatically processing your Information and protects you from leaks.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    Jokes on them, I don't have any mates!

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    In Europe this probably goes against GDPR, right? If I don't agree, they should not collect my face

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (20 children)

    Why are they using electricity for stuff no one asked for? It seems to be too cheap over there...

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    [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Give MS a bunch of fake mates. Fill their models with NOISE.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    So, will this look through porn videos as well? Asking for a friend.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Jokes on them, I have no friends.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    However, it is that seemingly arbitrary three-times-a-year limit applied to the People section that is most concerning. Why not four? Why not as many times as a user wants?

    If it works the same way Immich does, probably because they have to retrain the models every time you turn it back on and want to aboid poeple turning it on when they need it, then off again, then back on, ... Although a less shitty mehod would be to limit the amount of times you can turn it on but I guess that iterferes with their goal of harvesting your data.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    If you're stuck with Windows 11, this removes OneDrive nicely.

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