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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 days ago

Microsoft Is Dedicated To Building A Dodgy New Database Of Every Windows 11 User’s Online Behaviors

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Microsoft Is Dedicated To Building A Dodgy New Database Of Every Windows 11 User’s Online Behaviors

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 days ago
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Last year Microsoft announced that it was bringing a new feature to its under-performing Windows 11 OS dubbed “Recall.” According to Microsoft’s explanation of Recall, the “AI” powered technology w…
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    Just switch away from the Garbage on your private computer

    https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/

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      Go atomic instead, assuming your needs are relatively limited. Here are the Fedora variants:

      • Silverblue - GNOME
      • Kinoite - KDE
      • Budgie - Budgie

      That way you don’t have to care about what’s going on under the hood, you just install your apps as flatpaks and you’re off to the races.

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        Was looking at Silverblue and then found Universal Blue. Much easier: https://universal-blue.org/

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      Oh, good lord. Have you met my 82-year old father?

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        He probably only uses a web browser, so as long as you make it look familiar, he probably wouldn’t notice.

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        I set up my 80 year old mother with linux

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        Set him up with the KDE Environment. It’s quite similar to Windows

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