If I hadn't abandoned OneDrive already, this would make me do so.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
What the shit? Ooh, I need to test this on my work computer!
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
You have a work MacBook? Man, your company must be filthy stinkin' rich.
We all have MacBook Pros because we don't want to deal with IT. It's better than Windows, but I miss Linux.
we have macbooks, windows laptops and even ubuntus. they give us any hardware we want, even 50" ultrawides 😅
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.
SMH a workaround for a workaround to enable their shitty surveillance. Pure genius.
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.
You won't regret it! Ubuntu is a solid choice for your first foray into Linux.
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.
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.
Great thing about Linux is you can change your distro whenever you want.
If you're uncertain, or not ready to go through the process just yet, you can always just boot Bazzite off a USB drive and play around with it for now.
Ha, joke's on you Microsoft: I don't have any mates.
Jokes on them, I don't have any mates!
By mates, do they mean buddies or procreative partners?
Yes
Both are good
Australians
Why are they using electricity for stuff no one asked for? It seems to be too cheap over there...
But if we feed enough data to the AI slop machine, one day you can get your own Knight Rider car! /s
I'm holding out for an Airwolf or Street Hawk.
Why do you think no one asks for stuff like this? Facial recognition is one of the best features of photo storage systems as it lets you easily find all of your photos that have certain people in them. It’s fantastic for making shared albums with family members where any pics of certain people are automatically added once recognized.
Onedrive having it makes using Onedrive for photo storage and sharing a much better experience.
Only if it can be done locally. I don't want my fucking face going out to a bunch of asshole corporations databases any more than absolutely necessary. Shit like this is why I don't let people take my picture.
It’s not?
Do you not understand how cloud services work?
Do you?
I don’t want my fucking face going out to a bunch of asshole corporations databases
What about this topic makes you think anything like this is happening?
When you put your photos (or anything else) on onedrive they go to Microsoft's servers. Microsoft now has your photos. That is how this works. They aren't pushing so hard to coerce Windows users into using it for benevolent reasons.
So you want it to be done locally against photos that are stored in the cloud?
This only happens for photos that you upload to onedrive. Why or how would it happen “locally”?
You said “a bunch of asshole corporations databases” - who are the “bunch of corporations”? Microsoft is only 1 corporation.
So you want it to be done locally against photos that are stored in the cloud?
I don't want my photos in the cloud period.
This only happens for photos that you upload to onedrive. Why or how would it happen “locally”?
Have the software run on the PC or a server that you own.
You said “a bunch of asshole corporations databases” - who are the “bunch of corporations”? Microsoft is only 1 corporation.
Any corporation that lets you upload photos. Onedrive, google, facebook, whoever. They're all abusing your data.
I song want my photos in the cloud period
So why are you uploading your photos to Onedrive? If you’re not then why are you complaining about this feature that only exists does people who do?
You seem to be arguing about something completely off topic. Doing the face recognition on your local machine only to have the photos and tagged faces uploaded to onedrive makes no sense because the point of it is to automatically identify all photos of the tagged people so you can then find them all with a simple search for their name, and make custom auto-updating albums of specific people.
What exactly is your point?
why are you complaining about this feature that only exists does people who do?
To wake others up to the fact that it's not a good service to use and to the fact that maybe the people in the pictures they are uploading also don't want to have their image handed over to all these corporations. Have you ever asked the people in your pictures about this? I don't even let anyone take my picture anymore because everyone and their grandma has been ignoring my wishes about that since fucking myspace.
It’s not a good service to use? Why?
Lol you sound like a tonne of fun. What issue do you have with people having photos of you on their services?
If you really want it, you should be able to enable it. No reason to do that with the other 90% who don't need it.
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.
Give MS a bunch of fake mates. Fill their models with NOISE.
The fuck is that goddamn thumbnail. You keep shalehket out of this shit.
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