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Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage

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Re: Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage

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If only, this will only happen when regular consumers can get GNU/Linux desktops and laptops fully working on shops like Media Market, Saturn, FNAC, Dixons, Publico,.... Until then it will be computer nerds buying from online shops, building their own PCs, or running Linux VMs alongside Windows and macOS. Android, ChromeOS, WebOS have succeed among users, exactly because they are consumer OSes, where the use of Linux…

The PC market doesnt care what nerds do. But the PC market has a niche that it does respond financially to, and thats gamers. Gamers have long felt the pull factor of Linux, with games becoming easier to run on the platform. But now Windows has delivered a heap of push factors, with Windows chewing more memory, and that memory being used for intrusive AI tasks. If market forces respond as they do for gamers, we will…

Until Valve removes their dependency on Windows developers for content on GNU/Linux, that doesn't matter.

Most professional studios have no reason to care, and change the status quo.

Most would rather stick to game consoles and mobile games than move a finger to support GNU/Linux, when not targeting Windows.

Re: Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage

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"Enable enhanced agentic features for an enriched experience across our operating system!" [ Always Allow ] [ Allow Once ] [ Remind me in 24 hours ]

A "remember this decision for X time" option by Microsoft is a bald faced lie.

Re: Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage

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You answered your own questions. They do think of their users as big dum idiots.

Not only idiots. They bank on laziness. One time you enable something by mistake then you might not spend the time to find the well hidden option to disable it. Which reminds me, anyone know the precise location where one would disable Google's Gemini on their account?

> They bank on laziness.

And they would be correct. Less than 5% of users change defaults. That's why features get shoved in, on by default because if they didn't, very few would ever enable them. Not defending the practice, I hate it, but that's why they do it.

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