According to Microsoft’s documentation, a user can only change the setting to enable or disable the new People section three times a year.
Get a second drive, SD card, USB, ssd whatever and have it just for your back ups. If your back up drive fails, well, fuck
Jokes on them, I have no friends.
Give MS a bunch of fake mates. Fill their models with NOISE.
By mates, do they mean buddies or procreative partners?
Yes
Australians
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.
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 since 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 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.
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.
Wouldn’t that wipe my current data? Like, sure I can install Bazzite, but there’s more setup to be done once again, and if I dislike it then I’m going through the setup once more. I understand it’s not that hard all things considered, but it’s not necessarily easy to just go mucking around with it with limited free time.
Oh yeah there’s definitely a bit of effort involved, but most distros have very similar directory setups, so it’s often just a matter of copying across the relevant folders, with the “home” folder being the one that typically contains most or all of your user data.
Being able to test run distros off a USB drive is a great (and easy) way to see if it might be for you without making any sort of commitment.
Another option is to install the distro to a second hard drive so you have a more permanent environment to test it. I’ve done this before, and when I was content that I wanted to switch to it I just copied all my stuff across.
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 stinkin’ filthy rich.
we have macbooks, windows laptops and even ubuntus. they give us any hardware we want, even 50" ultrawides 😅
We all have MacBook Pros because we don’t want to deal with IT. It’s better than Windows, but I miss Linux.
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.
In Europe this probably goes against GDPR, right? If I don’t agree, they should not collect my face
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.
Ha, joke’s on you Microsoft: I don’t have any mates.
Jokes on them, I don’t have any mates!
The fuck is that goddamn thumbnail. You keep shalehket out of this shit.
Yeah it’s in awful taste; thanks for pointing it out. For those who are not familiar with the art installation: https://www.jmberlin.de/en/shalekhet-fallen-leaves
So, will this look through porn videos as well? Asking for a friend.
I’m done defending idiots. Use sh%t, get hit.
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.
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.
So your argument now is just that it should be disabled by default?
Regarding electricity: yes
Regarding privacy: no, but my privacy views are based on what we have in Germany, where the feature might not be allowed at all.
Does google photos have this feature in Germany like it does where I am?
I feel like people are misunderstanding what this actually is. When you upload photos, it detects faces and lets you tag those faces with a name, and then you can just click on that person and it will show you all the photos you have of that person. That’s it. It’s not sharing them with anyone. Why on earth would that be not allowed?
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.
Not sure why people are talking about the “you can only enable or disable it 3 times a year” as if it’s an issue? This is generally a thing you’d either turn off or on once, depending on what it defaults to. Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why would they need to limit you?
Irrelevant. Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
For someone called freedom advocate you sure don’t sound like one.
What part of letting me name people in my uploaded photos so I can easily find all of the photos of them is somehow anti-freedom?
Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?
I would assume that the “arbitrary limit” is actually based on something like the amount of processing power that it could take to go through every single photo/file that is uploaded.
Anyway, even if it is arbitrary - what reason would anyone have to turn it on and off more than 3x a year? It’s something you’d decide you either want or you don’t.
what reason would anyone have
That’s none of your business. You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
Just because you lack the imagination to think of reasons someone might have, doesn’t mean that they don’t have a perfectly good reason. But, they shouldn’t need to justify themselves to you.
The don’t have to justify themselves to me, they have to figure out how to handle only changing it 3 times a year.
I’m trying to understand any reasons why someone would turn it on/off more than once. Not asking people to “justify”, just curious because it’s not something that makes sense to turn on and off multiple times.
You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
You don’t know why they might want to do this thing. I also don’t know why they would want to do this thing. The difference is, I 👏 Don’t 👏 Care 👏. My opinion of their reason to want to do it is irrelevant to my advocating their freedom to do it.
And that’s all I’m going to say on the subject. If you can’t understand that basic fact, then I don’t know what else I can say.
