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Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by hkon »

mistermann wrote: post #167
hypeatei wrote: post #131

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No, that scheme would be too hard to contain so the three letter agencies are blatant about it. They just let tech companies develop these things and know they'll have access to the data anyway. For every real user that finds a tool slurping up data to be useful, there are 100 law enforcement agents also saying it's useful so everyone should hop on the bandwagon.

It's not possible for you to know how hard to contain it is. The commonality of strange beliefs like this makes me seriously wonder if there is an initiative on social media to teach this form of thinking as being correct, because it is certainly the default. Try defecting from the game for a month and watch the other players from the sidelines, and see if you don't see what I'm talking about.

Companies dealing only with new features, products and other things that are meaningless in the greater picture manage to keep secrets for years all the time. Why wouldn't more nefarious things also be able to kept secret. Before Snowden, plausible deniability existed. But not anymore.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

layer8 wrote: post #229
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #96

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> revert Explorer back to the non-ribbon version Don't you mean to the ribbon-UI version? Explorer switched from having a traditional menubar with a text-only context-sensitive toolbar (as in Vista and 7) to using the ribbon in Windows 8 and Windows 10; Windows 11 had the new dumbed-down explorer UI design since day-one (though in earlier builds of Win11 the ribbon UI could still be restored in Windows 11 using tweak…

I wasn’t really familiar with the Windows 11 changes. I’m still on Windows 10 and use Ribbon Disabler, and also hide the toolbar by patching an XML resource in shellstyle.dll (IIRC). Ideally I’d want a no-context-sensitivity “just normal menus” version.

There’s a registry key you can set to disable the new Win11 context-menus btw.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by layer8 »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #232
layer8 wrote: post #229

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I wasn’t really familiar with the Windows 11 changes. I’m still on Windows 10 and use Ribbon Disabler, and also hide the toolbar by patching an XML resource in shellstyle.dll (IIRC). Ideally I’d want a no-context-sensitivity “just normal menus” version.

There’s a registry key you can set to disable the new Win11 context-menus btw.

Yep, that much I already knew. :)

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by psd1 »

kobalsky wrote: post #64
imbusy111 wrote: post #28

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From my experience, it's still not a 100% replacement. For example, there are no drivers for a pretty common steering wheel (Logitech G923). There is a driver for an older version of the wheel that kind of works, but no TRUEFORCE support. And even then, you have to mess with some low level details to make it work, send magic values to the hardware on plugging it in. I also noticed that games from Steam end up taking…

> From my experience, it's still not a 100% replacement if it were a perfect replacemente, there would be no Windows. for some it's good enough to endure the rough spots. if you want to replace Windows and give yourself a gray area, and you can afford it, get a computer with 2 gpus and use a VM with VFIO and looking glass and you can contain its naughtiness away while enojoying it at native speed for gaming or whatev…

It's possible to do this with one GPU. The downside is that you have to shut down the VM in order to get back to your Linux desktop.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by itsTyrion »

kelsey98765431 wrote: post #2

Proton is able to run just about anything now, not just games. Stop using Microsoft Operating Systems where you can and mark them as needing replacement with real software in all your reports.

What about Software for hardware (Mouse, Keyboard, Audio Interface) and some productivity apps?

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by tym0 »

BadHumans wrote: post #15
robotnikman wrote: post #7

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The day Proton or WINE can run the whole Adobe suite of products is the day I will probably switch to using Linux full time.

Would you consider replacing the Adobe suite with other products?

I have and sadly the Affinity suite doesn't run (without crashes) in Proton.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by hcal »

twojacobtwo wrote: post #111
hcal wrote: post #23

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I run it on Linux everyday with Steam on Proton. It is my go to game on steamdeck and my Fedora desktop. By default steam wants to download the old old old Linux version that doesn't allow online play, but if you enable proton it will download the Windows version and run fine. I am pretty sure it doesn't have a real anti-cheat included.

Are you sure? Is this recent (last 6 months)? I enabled it and tested multiple versions of Proton with no success. Did you have to do anything else?

I don't have to do anything else. I just use the current proton. I just installed it on the flatpak version too. No trouble.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by markus_zhang »

ZunarJ5 wrote: post #160
bee_rider wrote: post #113

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Give it a try, dual boot.

You don't even have to go that far: https://distrosea.com/

Thanks. I already use Linux for my dev box so it's fine. Right now I'm just not motivated enough to use it in daily drive.
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