How is this possibly going to be tolerated in business environments?
this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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They pay more for it not being switched on... Or it doesn't call out to home
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Makes sense why they want this technology so much, one thing has really been achieved - in year 2005 you couldn't make a program that would be a keylogger and a useful thing all in one, so you had to make a keylogger somehow detect those rare events one can risk it running, or something like that. You couldn't instruct it in English "send me his private messages on sites like Facebook", you had to be specific and solve problems. Now you can. And these "AI"'s are usually one program with generic purpose. To stuff everything together with kinda useful things.
Moral blackmail and shaming will be the new industries of the future!
We already know this. It's not just Microsoft; Google, Meta, and other big tech companies are also involved in similar practices.
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They say you can disable Recall by keep pornhub videos running in foreground.
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.
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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.
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LMAO!!
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woah, what, i can't believe it
Shocked!