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MagnusEntityPosts ,

The Eye

(It knows you, it sees all that you do)
(You cant hide)
(....)
(You thought so much about whether or not you Could, that you didn't think about if you should)
(quite a scary thing)
(to be so fully Known)
(I hope that there is going to be a way to disable that)

Chadus_Maximus ,

(Why are we taking like this)

KairuByte ,
@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

(Shhh they can’t see inside brackets yet, they try to parse it and fail)

MagnusEntityPosts ,

(The bit outside the brackets is always the Entity and anything inside brackets is stuff that has nothing to do with the Entitys or is just an explanation ^^)
(I am just trying to differentiate these two bits)

Chadus_Maximus ,

Oh! I get it! (no idea what you just said).

sturmblast ,

Yep, that shit won't be running on my computers.

Chakravanti , (edited )

*That won't be acknowledged running on my computer.

Correction. If you're running any kind of closed source software AND haven't disabled Intel ME (or PSP) Then this is the accurate reality shining on you illusion of reality.

Also, get you a lap shade or that 10-dimensional...whatever is still racking your body, watching you out of every camera. Every.Camera.Everywhere

Cypher ,

Well… given every single Windows update has failed for the last few months for me it really won’t be running on my PC.

I’m going to need to wipe the bloody thing soon though because of the security risks.

Time to go back to Linux Mint I guess

Chakravanti ,

Qubes. Get a another laptop. Something old and cheap. X230 or better for some basic security tools in the chip. On that front though, learn to either disable Intel ME or cough up for someone else doing so. would recommend a Librem from Purism.

If so, get a three year warranty. I don't know about us lasting that long here but mine lasted two years before all the ports stopped working with USB going first. I sent it to them with a new NVMe and the sent me back a failure after asking me if they could wipe the drive and made me pay for the shipment. When I received it and told them about their failure, they paid for shipping the second time. Sent me someone that worked for another two years.

I quit windows two decades ago. Didn't get into comps and GNU/Linux for 5 more years. First thing i learned about comps when I built one was GNU/Linux.

It's not the software itself that I respect, but the philosophy of Richard Stallman. He is no less than our Messiah and he doesn't make a single reference to a gorram thing that ain't a tangible security concept he manifests into what makes sense.

Like I'll ever "trust" someone I don't know let alone some pedophiliac thief's OS that someone wrote and even he don't know. Despite claiming anything about its function.

phoenixz ,

Try KDE Neon

taanegl ,

So I'm trying to figure out a way to jip Microsoft. We've already got a way to activate windows for free, but LTSC images need to be available - because that's where we get away from Microsoft's bullshit.

Unless Microsoft removes access to DISM and gp, we'll still be able to cut off that "always online" limb.

Chakravanti ,

That's not, wasn't, and never will be free even if you don't ritual with your Talisman, the dollar.

Closed source software isn't about making money. That's just a sucker tool to vacuum people that accept shit-worse-than slavery from the dollar.

Free means to ditch any and all software that some person you don't gorram know bar one pedophile who stole everyone else's written software and turned around selling it promising what it does. Even he doesn't know jack fucking squat about what it really does.

If you flip that for the trust you gave over the then the news is that you're an even more gullible sucker and it isn't a gamble on whether or not the next software cracker will kidnap the rest of your family as well.

The life of everyone in your family will inevitably become the truth serum regenex for Steve Jobs when they unfreeze his ass. If you think he really is dead then you weren't paying the fuck attention to his stock market vaccine six months before his ice cube.

Fungah ,

What the fuck are you talking about?

Chakravanti ,

Back to the future.

StereoTrespasser ,

That sounds like an AI bot summarizing an average Lemmy user's rant about FLOSS and Linux.

Chakravanti ,

You can't tell the difference between an AI and a real person because your understanding of reality was fed to you by children in culture's trap persuading you to summon the 10 dimension into the essence of your soul flux into theirs.

Chakravanti ,

The obvious truth you think ain't cuz the writer knew you would understand what the real dimensions against reality we live in are without your inability to perceive them.

It's not difficult. You can see it. Let me throw an example of one them.

We see 4 dimensions. Height, width, Length and time right?

There's another multidimensional track here. This is the Story. It's a little more complicated and I'd be foolish to claim understanding of that; though I would easily say the I know a few of them. I've read many Sci-Fi, Fantasy and a few others.

That's just an example. I am trying to give you understanding but if you continue to ask questions that are essentially a weapon using ignorance to attempt to smear someone who is attempting to help everyone before the Sun smite gorram planet like Mars for our universal suicide in ways we can't begin to understand let alone describe should we actually know anything about it let alone understand anything.

orgrinrt ,

Do you think any of that makes any sense? If you read what you’ve written here, can you make sense of that yourself?

h3mlocke ,
@h3mlocke@lemm.ee avatar

Dude are you okay?

moon ,

You want to get rid of Microsoft's BS while still using Microsoft? I think you already know the only answer is Linux.

taanegl ,

In some cases, that's still not possible for m, although my personal laptop that I use daily runs Fedora Atomic.

But I also recently reinstalled another laptop with Windows 11, promptly stripped the whole thing of all kinds of apps and services, installed a bunch of audio software, libraries, etc, to prepare a machine to be show worthy.

When the day comes and Ableton ports Live to Linux proper is when I will forego a bulk of my VST's, but running it under wine for real-time purposes is not reliable at all - so eh. There's Bigwig, but I got like years of Max patches that I just can't live without, and I don't need just a DAW. In fact, if you ask me to leave Live, I'll tell you to fly a kite.

Same issue it's always been, unfortunately, that vendors do not support the Linux desktop. Go bother the vendors about platform supoort. I do, frequently. In fact, time for another ticket - and this one is going to be political.

Thanks for the reminder.

yuri ,

As worse and worse win11 features are unveiled it’s so funny to see these posts slowly filled with more “yeah i just switched to linux” comments.

ATDA ,

Obligatory Linux mint post.

ThePrivacyPolicy ,

Switched to mint on my laptop a couple months ago and love it, using it full time on that system. Still need to run windows on my desktop for some audio production and VR gaming, but honestly that system is going to Mint next for the other 90% of the usage. Couldn't believe how refined the Linux desktop experience has gotten, but then again last time I gave it a try was probably well over a decade ago :)

Killer57 ,

Really loving Bazzite so far.

biggerbogboy ,

what specs do you have? im wondering since im planning to install it on my school laptop (lenovo thinkpad 11e 4th gen, 4gb ram, 128gb ssd, intel celeron, integrated graphics.) and in wondering if it would work somewhat fast, especially at web browsing.

AProfessional ,

The web is just heavy, no OS changes that. It will work fine but that ram could be filled by a few heavy sites.

biggerbogboy ,

yeah I just realised that fact, currently I use chromium and it is quite fast on my system so I don't think there will be issues there. aside from that, how fast are windows programs compared to ordinary windows?

AProfessional ,

Thats a very broad question. My general thought is don’t install Linux to use Windows software. It’s gotten pretty good, to nearly same performance, but I wouldn’t count on it.

biggerbogboy ,

I appreciate the help, I was asking as my school laptop runs horrendously slow on windows, but when I utilise a Linux live environment, it's suddenly bearable.

ordellrb ,

blocking the stuff you dont want (ads and tracking ) with dns blocklists and adblocker can help a bit. linux has also the option to compress the contents of the ram with Zram. i have not used it myself yet.

sag ,
@sag@lemm.ee avatar

Thorium

Killer57 , (edited )

My apologies on the late reply, I currently have Bazzite on three devices,
My main PC: Ryzen 7 3700X, RX 5600, 64Gb DDR4.
My main laptop, a Lenovo E590.
And my backup laptop: A Lenovo L412.
So far, I prefer it over windows on all three.

spyd3r ,
@spyd3r@sh.itjust.works avatar

pfff... I'm going back to Windows XP Pro x64 Edition.

yuri ,

don’t remind me of better days

Johnmannesca ,
@Johnmannesca@lemmy.world avatar

And removing one of the best features, the subsystem for android. It stops making sense from many people's perspectives and using a linux program like waydroid would probably be better than using android studio on Windows11.

kusivittula ,

yeah right, that data definitely won't be sent to microsoft.

MonkderDritte ,

So they disable this in EU, right?

LainTrain ,

Thanks, but I'm still sticking with Windows 7.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/04aece2e-6288-4452-97c8-8d63afd4555d.png

the_crotch ,

The botnets thank you for your service

LainTrain ,

Desktop computers don't have to worry about that unless the user doesn't know how to use the internet safely and you know I'm right.

the_crotch ,

If they're running an up to date OS/browser, sure.

LainTrain ,

Nah you can run Windows 7 just fine, the attack surface of the OS itself is limited significantly by what's exposed on the network (don't open ports lol) and what's run on the machine (don't run malware lol).

Up to date browser is something pretty independent of the OS.

I work in cybersec and believe this unironically btw.

The reason updates are shilled to businesses is compliance theatre and consultancies/B2B software solutions for patch management, and the reason it's shilled to consumers is so they don't take ownership of their software and simply consume the latest product that big data determined generates the most engagement for advertising or is of value to market researchers ala Win10 ads in start menu and preloaded adware and telemetry.

lamabop ,

For the average user, with maybe a little bit of IT knowledge but doesn't work in IT, what can we do for ourselves and our families other than go to win 11 eventually?

legofreak ,

Unironically, switch to Linux. Mainstream distros like Mint, PopOS or Ubuntu are very friendly for casual users, have GUIs for everything and if something does go wrong, the error messages actually have proper meaning and you'll find tons of resources online as well as people willing to help.

Most stuff nowadays runs in a browser anyway, so here there's no compatibility issues, office is available in Linux through libre office and gaming has come far with steam and proton.

Grass ,

I trust Ubuntu about as much as windows

darkmogool ,

why?

Soundhole ,

Canonical have a long history of making decisions for corporate reasons, then using their popularity to try to strongarm the larger Linux community into adopting their way of doing things.

Currently, they're pushing their closed source Snap packs, which are frankly inferior to the open source Flat packs, but it's just the latest example of their shenanigans.

darkmogool ,

Well… That's shitty behaviour.
I'm luckily not on Ubuntu.
Thanks for clarification.

legofreak ,

I don't like Canonical either, hence my recommendations for Mint or Pop being listed first. But let's be real, if someone wants to just get away from windows and wants something that works without having to learn much new, this is good enough.

admin ,
@admin@lemmy.my-box.dev avatar

On the bright side: If you're tech-savy enough to form that opinion, you're probably not the intended audience for this advice.

workerONE ,

Bring back Clippy

dukethorion ,
@dukethorion@lemmy.world avatar

They renamed it Creepy.

furzegulo ,

yeah, no thanks so fucking very much

illi , (edited )

If I'm reading this correctly this runs locally and will requirean NPU, so would not be present or working without AI dedicated hardware?

It honestly sounds useful and I would be a little excited to use it, but I imagine Microsoft will collect the data in some way which would be bad as it pretty much records your screen all the time (I somehow doubt all the info the AI collects will be actually stored locally)?

Hopefuly one day there will be a point when a similar software will be developed that runs 100% locally, storing the data locally and have no internet connectivity and just be a useful tool.

Good news is that unless you have Qualcomm CPU (or one with integrated NPU in the long run) you are safe from it for now

LiveLM ,

Yeah you just about summed up my thoughts about the feature.
It sounds like it could be genuinely useful, but I could never trust Microsoft to do it right, no matter how much they insist it's local only.

dumpsterlid ,

Honestly I think windows is so fucked in terms of market share and it seems like they are kind of just pre-emptively ceding the battle to linux intentionally or not.

Yeah people have been waiting for years for linux to eat windows for lunch and it hasn’t happened yet but I am convinced that linux becoming massively more practical and easy to use for gaming (Steam deck being a good catalyst) in the last couple of years has pushed things past a tipping point. Gaming might not make up the outsized chunk of desktop usage, but gaming is where people experiment, try new things, learn software inside and out and it is where people are most inspired to contribute and build and polish out the annoying little details of complex systems.

Yeah Microsoft will have its walled moats around entire sectors of business indefinitely into the future, and that probably is where most of the consistent money is, but I think Microsoft shitting the bed with Windows 11 so hard is creating the rosiest forecast for the future of Linux desktops I have ever seen in my life.

These twin factors converging has got me bullish af on Linux in the near to mid term.

Let’s fuckinnn gooooooo

thatirishguyyy OP ,
@thatirishguyyy@lemmy.today avatar

The day Linux says all video games are compatible with their OS is the day I finally switch from Windows for good.

Until then I'm using a pirated version of Win11Pro and wondering how this AI will work with pirated copies.

dumpsterlid , (edited )

The day Linux says all video games are compatible with their OS is the day I finally switch from Windows for good.

I mean Wine and steamOS’s Proton are that though? Sure compatibility isn’t perfect but the vast majority of games I have tried worked all the way from current AAA games to games like Steel Panthers WinspWW2, a DOS game from the 90s that barely functions on a modern windows computer but yet runs perfect on my Deck. Because the deck is using a virtual environment to emulate a windows OS it actually arguably creates a more stable platform to run windows software than windows itself running the program normally.

Pretty much the only obstacle left is stupid super invasive anticheat/spyware software that doesn’t bother to cover Linux in competitive multiplayer games.

Jesus_666 ,

Kernel-level anticheat and DRM are killer features, like it or not. People don't care how invasive they are, they want to play League of Duty. If Linux can't do that then it's not good enough yet as far as they are concerned.

Meanwhile the only thing keeping me from switching to Garuda on my desktop is that the GPU is wonky and misbehaves even worse under Linux than it does under Windows. Screw competitive online games.

rottingleaf ,

Then Linux may win over Windows for gaming, but games might lose to tinkering for me. Cause no way in hell I'm installing a kernel-mode trojan consciously.

dumpsterlid ,

If Linux can’t do that then it’s not good enough yet as far as they are concerned.

Linux can do that, see The Finals, Halo Infinite, Apex Legends or any number of other games. It’s just the anticheat companies are sketchy and often uninterested in doing even a little bit of work to add Linux support.

Jesus_666 ,

True, but getting someone to switch to Linux is a hard sell already. Any compatibility issues are seen as the OS's fault, not as the game company being lazy.

dumpsterlid ,

Getting someone to switch anything major in the workflow/toolset of their lives is nearly impossible most of the time, it is process highly likely to cause headaches and only provide counterbalancing benefits down the road once the painful learning curve of acclimation is overcome.

However, in the same token there are plenty of Linux distributions that have perfectly understandable desktop UIs that many Mac or Windows users wouldn’t event notice wasn’t windows. Especially with Windows changing shit every 5 seconds and stuffing useless crap into menus everywhere, I think it isn’t a stretch to say the UI of many Linux distributions is more user friendly than Windows and in many cases Mac.

The real problem is the moment someone has to fuck around with headaches with drivers for basic computer functionality like Bluetooth or other hardware. If that stuff is generally covered pretty well then most people aren’t going to give a shit.

At this point Linux is like making coffee with a French press, people who aren’t coffee nerds think using a French press is way more complicated than using some stupid keurig machine with completely unclear buttons and a camera inside just to check you are using brand name keurig cups that you have to fool by slipping in an old k-cup lid from keurig over the top of the off-brand one….

…peoplenwho do know coffee well on the other hand shake their heads confused when people jump through 1000 hoops to use other coffee brewing methods when a French press conceptually and mechanically is only one step away from just literally dumping your coffee grounds in hot water and then drinking it.

Zacryon ,

Lol, not even Windoof is compatible with all video games.

Whirling_Cloudburst ,

So, how will this work and comply with laws regarding its use in a medical institution?

What about its use in a company that has extremely valuable trade secrets that need to be kept that way?

What about the military?

Wouldn't this make for an excellent target to harvest data for hackers?

I wonder if Win 11 LTSC will leave it out.

thatirishguyyy OP ,
@thatirishguyyy@lemmy.today avatar

Very good questions!

SGG ,

Microsoft will release a GPO or MEM setting that works 20 percent of the time to turn off the constant AI data mining, only available to enterprise SKUs.

T156 ,

Military would be fine, because they don't tend to update very frequently, if at all. If it works, that's the way it will stay, and the recent controversy wouldn't exactly encourage them to do so.

What about its use in a company that has extremely valuable trade secrets that need to be kept that way?

Same way the LLM debacle has currently gone, where people will just throw sensitive information into it with abandon. At least one major tech company has penalised workers for doing that with ChatGPT.

If there's a group policy to turn it off, maybe, but Microsoft might just not have one, or it'll need to be disabled every update.

captainlezbian ,

Honestly it’s still strange to me that the us dod doesn’t have their own in house operating system

TachyonTele ,

The hard part in doing that is making it compatible with everything. It's not useful if it can't run everything.

rottingleaf ,

Other than them having some setting only for enterprise users, there's another question - what has more weight, Microsoft or the law?

MonkderDritte ,

what has more weight, Microsoft or the law?

If law forces them, Big IT will challenge it only to get a few years to mine data and get a few billions. Or outright violate it, because the penalty will be less worth.

captainlezbian ,

In America who knows. In Europe, it’s probably the law

ThePrivacyPolicy ,

Most importantly - is it watching my porn with me too and learning about that?

sentient_loom ,
@sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works avatar

Useless bloatware.
And then they added AI.

far_university1990 ,

Everything you need to know

Is to delete windows 11

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