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With remote work it always fascinates me to see how many people leave the weather (& news) bar displayed next to the tray on the taskbar, this is something that came with a Windows 10 update. People really don't change defaults... I was wondering if I could make a fake one, just add an appropriate icon and change its label to say something like 6000°C Nuclear Holocaust
"People really don't change defaults..." Because they are scared of breaking things. Also, most people actually do change defaults: style and theme.
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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It’s crazy. I used Edge when it first switched to Chromium because it was a nice, clean Chrome alternative with working sync. Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted. This “feature” is insane and it makes me concerned about what Windows might be doing in the background.
I just had the Edge Desktop Search Bar show up on my desktop. It just appeared from nowhere. Didn't even know when it was "installed". MS is getting really pushy. They probably see the GPT stuff as their ticket to beating Google in search so they are pushing it as hard as they can to get as many users as they can. I just click "turn off". I don't trust LLMs - all their knowledge is learned from the unreliable interne…
It takes a good hour to turn off their default ad-laden, adhd-inducing home page. And then they turn it back on a few weeks later.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#443I installed Windows 10 (not even 11!) recently on a random laptop and was appalled by the amount of BS in the initial setup process. Forced me to make a Microsoft online account seemingly with remote access to my PC, tried to sign me up for several different free trials, then tried multiple times to push me to Edge instead of Chrome. The UI has new crap like the Bing search on the taskbar and in the center of the des…
> Forced me to make a Microsoft online account They actually don’t quite force this. They just make it very difficult to find the option to use a local account instead. (Unless they’ve changed things for the worse since last time I installed windows. Very possible!)
It's changed for the worse :(
I had to help my grandma get her new laptop up and running for the first time, with Windows 11, and it got to the account screen and there were no hidden/vague options to skip or go local. I assume this is because they detected an internet connection.
She literally had to get an MS account which apparently didn't work because she already had one from the last laptop. MS wanted to send her a recovery code to her email... Which she couldn't access because no computer.
Oh and the amount of opt-in screens after that? 10+ screens. No joke.
It's insane. There's no way she would be able to use her new laptop if she didn't get 2 hours of help.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#444This is just bananas to me that a browser would perform "super resolution" at all, much less by default . Couldn't this wreak havoc on doing things like viewing medical images, inserting false detail that isn't there? As well as on text in images, e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry? Not only does this seem like a terribly…
It’s crazy. I used Edge when it first switched to Chromium because it was a nice, clean Chrome alternative with working sync. Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted. This “feature” is insane and it makes me concerned about what Windows might be doing in the background.
I was also an edge user until a few month ago. I have Lenovo X1 Yoga that has had severe overheating problems since I bought it a year ago. Lenovo has been very helpful but unable to resolve the issue. They have changed the mainboard twice.
Then I switch to brave instead of edge and now I don't have overheating issue anymore. When I start edge it won't take many minutes before the laptop gets burning hot.
I guess the bloat has exceeded what the highest spec'd, top of the line, Lenovo laptop can handle.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#445Unless this is against the law it will keep happening.
"Unreasonable search and seizure" needs to become a legal duty on platforms, where the bar for "reasonable" (absent extremely informed consent) is very high.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#446Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#447I installed Windows 10 (not even 11!) recently on a random laptop and was appalled by the amount of BS in the initial setup process. Forced me to make a Microsoft online account seemingly with remote access to my PC, tried to sign me up for several different free trials, then tried multiple times to push me to Edge instead of Chrome. The UI has new crap like the Bing search on the taskbar and in the center of the des…
I literally reinstalled win10 yesterday and you’re right on. I couldn’t even install due to “a media driver your computer needs is missing” with no further info and no workaround. This was after mbr2gpt.exe failed and gave no information on why and every online resource was SEO crap without any info on fixing it. I eventually used Ventoy, it works on Linux and solved my problems immediately. It also forces the win in…
> “a media driver your computer needs is missing”
If you installed the N version of Windows, try manually installing the Windows Media Center.
I had problems with NVIDIA Shadow play which were resolved by installing it.
Apparently the application is omitted from the N version because of European antitrust action ages ago.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#448I use windows 10 ltsc on one of my personal laptops, and yesterday I had to use ms teams... you actually have to try hard to make software that bad, it's on the level of itunes on windows, and itunes isn't like that because of incompetence obviously but greed, so ms teams gives you those fake choices of "you can log in if you want" "you can use your login across your windows pc" and it doesn't have yes or no just close and continue/signin.
I obviously will never use edge because of how slimy their tactics to push have been, but it really surprises me how this disrespect of privacy still surprises people, they've been doing it for a long time: telemetry, linkedin reseting its user's privacy settings every other month, can't uninstall edge on windows 11 without scripts, r/windows shills deleting any negative comment, etc. wouldn't surprise me to find out they're training LLMs on private github repos or just copying them for their own apps.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#449I installed Windows 10 (not even 11!) recently on a random laptop and was appalled by the amount of BS in the initial setup process. Forced me to make a Microsoft online account seemingly with remote access to my PC, tried to sign me up for several different free trials, then tried multiple times to push me to Edge instead of Chrome. The UI has new crap like the Bing search on the taskbar and in the center of the des…
In the unfortunate scenarios, where you need to use a Windows Install and or a VM never start without running through something like this: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater WARNING: Use at your own risk, no guarantees. Personally never broke anything for me.
PS > Get-AppxPackage -allusers | Where-Object {$_.name -notlike "store" -and $_.name -notlike "linux" -and $_.name -notlike "ubuntu"} | Remove-AppxPackage
PS > Get-AppxprovisionedPackage -online | Where-Object {$_.name -notlike "store" -and $_.name -notlike "linux" -and $_.name -notlike "ubuntu"} | Remove-AppxprovisionedPackage -online
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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I just had the Edge Desktop Search Bar show up on my desktop. It just appeared from nowhere. Didn't even know when it was "installed". MS is getting really pushy. They probably see the GPT stuff as their ticket to beating Google in search so they are pushing it as hard as they can to get as many users as they can. I just click "turn off". I don't trust LLMs - all their knowledge is learned from the unreliable interne…
I saw that pop up on one of my parent's computers. The hardware is old enough that it didn't want to install Windows 11, but Microsoft still managed to push that shit. Within an hour I wiped the drive of Windows.
Similar happened to my parents years ago. Windows 7, working perfectly. My mum kept seeing a popup asking "do you want to upgrade to Windows 10?" and every time (for months) clicked close.
Then, they changed the button layout and put a "install" button where the close button was, and she installed it without realising. Some bits of hardware weren't supported in Windows 10 and I had to go around and mess around with drivers, which I failed at.
So, she's been on Fedora since. Considering all she did on Windows was light browsing in Firefox and many hours of Pysol, she barely even noticed the switch.