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Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by includenotfound »

BizarroLand wrote: post #416
memcg wrote: post #345

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I have purchased 6 multi Tb external drives at estate sales. My son brought home a few from a summer working as a mover. In his experience it was divorcing spouses throwing out each others stuff. All of these drives had Pii and personal photos. Some of the estate sale drives included pii of children and grandchildren.

I've found a few cheap hard drives at thrift stores. I used to buy them just in case someone had left a crypto wallet on them. They're usually formatted but not wiped, so even recuva was typically able to claw back all of the missing data and restore the whole drive. Family photos, nudes, sex videos (homemade and professional), downloaded movies, pirated games, I've found them all. If you're dumping a drive and you d…

You left out the most interesting part - did you find any BTC?

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by mbirth »

cm2187 wrote: post #119

I enjoy windows 10 hugely now that it is out of support. It became way better when microsoft started tormenting the users of win11 instead of win10, and now that windows update doesn't bring new catastrophes and unexpected reboot, the OS is finally not interfering with usage anymore.

You should try Windows 7, then. Boots in no time at all, feels EXTREMELY snappy, and nowadays, there are UEFI loaders and a thing called VxKex-NEXT which adds the few new API calls Windows 10 introduced and thus makes W7 run many W10-only apps.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by SavioMak »

amlib wrote: post #387
Grimm665 wrote: post #331

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> The other potentially obvious question is why bother using an OS that’s out of support when Linux is so good? I'm in the process of setting up a Linux desktop to replace my Win10 one, and for me it's these (if anyone has suggestions for migration or replacement, I'd love some opinions!) - Lightroom. If anyone knows how to either run this under Linux, or migrate an entirely catalog of photos (plus edits) to somethin…

> - MusicBee. There just does not seem to be a good music manager for Linux that can replace MusicBee. I rarely use it as a music player, there are dozens of great options for Linux music players, but MusicBee feeds my Airsonic instance, and I have not found a good way to manage music graphically in a way that maintains this setup. For a traditional "all batteries included" collection management music player try Stra…

I used Quod Libet as my main music player for a year or two, but I found it lacking and iirc sometimes laggy (it is written in Python!). Updates also seem to be infrequent.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by daemin »

trashface wrote: post #418
JohnFen wrote: post #347

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> Your computer is likely to be stolen and sold. Likely? How likely is it? I've never had a computer stolen, nor has anybody I personally know. So it doesn't seem to me like it's all that likely. Personally, I find whole disk encryption to be more risky than it's worth. I much prefer encrypting things on a file-level instead.

I knew a guy whose laptop was stolen and it had a major companies game engine source on it - which was not open source (he had done some contract work for them). Personally I used LUKS encryption on a system76 laptop for 7 years and it worked fine - still going in fact. I was always worried about it failing especially after an update, but that never happened. For backups to offline media I still do use file-level enc…

That's why I understand businesses requiring full disk encryption on their devices and on contractor devices, because in their case they are fine with losing data as they have many copies of it elsewhere.

Re: Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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Post by daemin »

liendolucas wrote: post #317
daemin wrote: post #296

One thing I disagree with the article about is that drives should not be encrypted by default. For the vast majority of people an encrypted drive is just data loss lying in wait. I prefer to use non-encrypted drives so I have the option of popping out the disk and reading it from another system with ease, which also means that I can recover files from drives of otherwise dead systems just as easily. This is a trade o…

Users should be given a choice and clearly and concisely explain the consequences of choosing one or the other. Simple as that. What it should definitely not happen is to do this behind scenes and store recovery codes on a microsoft account. Why those codes have to be stored on their servers? A screen should display the recovery codes and instruct the user to print them and keep them in a safe place in case of requir…

I believe users are given an option on Windows setup to encrypt the drive with Bitlocker or not. I've done an install in the last few months and seen it.

They should also be given an option of storing the keys in the cloud service tied to an account. Most would still click yes, but the fact that law enforcement can ask for those keys without your consent is an issue.

Here is a question for you though, you probably have those backup codes for services stored securely somewhere, but does everyone you know?

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Post by daemin »

antiframe wrote: post #395
okanat wrote: post #350

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Windows does give access to the key. The issue with Microsoft account and especially Windows Home onboarding is that it doesn't tell you that it encrypted the drive and there is a backup key (which it uploads to Microsoft account, often readable by authorities with a court order). Many normie users not only get locked out of their laptops but they also forget their Microsoft account password causing complete loss of…

Not your key, not your crypto. => Not your key, not your data. Why would anyone want to encrypt their data and then hand their private key to anyone is mind boggling.

Same sort of reason that way more people use Microsoft Teams than Slack, because it's already there in something that you've paid for.

Personally I would not encrypt a whole disk, only the files I actually care about protecting.

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Post by zer0zzz »

Telaneo wrote: post #157
opan wrote: post #101

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What are some common hold-ups you know of? I don't program but have still used GNU/Linux on my main machine for over a decade now. It can browse the web, play games, listen to music, watch TV and movies, you can draw, you can edit video, you can stream to Twitch.

Adobe. Games with kernel anti-cheat. Office 365 (I think this mostly applies to overly complex Excel spreadsheets with lots of macros? There are also a bunch of people here who say LibreOffice has bad UI, or that they (somehow?) have documents that are complex enough that LibreOffice can't display them properly. Openoffice is somewhat better on those fronts, but neither are good enough if it's for actual work).

Adobe works on Mac, games with anti-cheat are a thin class of applications and they’re not productivity, Office 365 is on everything I thought (iPad, Mac, web).

Most everything else runs great in wine.

What more is there?

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Post by pjmlp »

GoblinSlayer wrote: post #419
pjmlp wrote: post #224

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Says someone that never used native Office versus Office Web. Yeah Web version will do, if everything you need is doable with Microsoft Works, and no collaboration with others is required. Google docs serves my word processing needs, then again I don't do anything at home that wasn't already possible in Word 2.0 for Windows 3.1, Wordpad, or AmigaWriter.

Word is just a bloated wordpad, and that's how people use it - to write text with paragraphs and justifications (recently wordpad supports docx). Excel is just a bloated csv viewer, that's how people use it - to make tables with text in them, notably price lists. My company is an ms shop and uses ms office offline and google docs for collaboration. First time I hear that ms office can into collaboration beyond sharep…

Then you have a limited view of creative way how humans collaborate, and clearly don't need bloated Office at all.

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Post by rewgs »

PeterStuer wrote: post #183
left-struck wrote: post #167

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Oh man, unfortunately all the things I need windows for doesn’t work well in a VM: Solidworks, needs special license to work in a VM that my company is not willing to pay for DAWs, need real time access to low level audio stuff Games, well, lets just say the experience is better with wine on linux With the exception of work, at some point I decided that not only is windows dead to me, but any application that can onl…

At least on Proxmox the Solidworks and DAW latency problems are solvable.

Do tell! Specifically the DAW latency problems. I love the idea of running a DAW in a VM on Proxmox.
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