How bad is Win 11? Options

[Christian J]

(Thought we needed a separate thread from Windows 10.)

Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-block...1-version-24h2/

Note that this is about the Insider Preview version. It will be interesting to see if it remains in the public release, and for even more programs in the future (with the end goal of only allowing programs from the Microsoft Store).

[pandy]

Shuck. But of course, it isn't extraordinary to limit users of an early Beta. If that is what it is.

Don't know what to do. I'm not that fond of Linux either. And I don't want to leave all my lovely programs. Last I ran Linux it wasn't the same to run Windows programs in that environment.

[Christian J]

"Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster."

https://doublepulsar.com/recall-stealing-ev...le-da3e12e9465e

[pandy]

Nice. So is this a mandatory feature?

[Christian J]

I suppose it will be installed by default in the future, maybe also enabled by default? Then maybe you can disable it, until Windows re-enables it again by accident.

[Christian J]

Update on the Recall preview feature for Copilot+ PCs
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience...or-copilot-pcs/

Alas it doesn't say if you can avoid installing it in the first place, or if you're "allowed" to delete it.

[pandy]

Anyway, assuming they are just trying to be helpful, wouldn't such a database of snapshots become giganormous?

Adobe is also doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEbgh-q7RCc

And here in Sweden some are pushing surveillance cameras with face recognition - just to be used to fight organized crime, of course. We are very close to that chip under the skin now.

[Christian J]

Anyway, assuming they are just trying to be helpful,

wouldn't such a database of snapshots become giganormous?

True, apparently the screenshots are deleted after text has been read from them and stored in a much smaller database.

Adobe is also doing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEbgh-q7RCc

That's only what to expect from using cloud services... Microsoft of course also has access to documents and images that end up on their OneDrive, but this Recall thing also gives them access to everything else.

[pandy]

And here comes "Chat Control"... Who needs a chip?

[coothead]

And here comes "Chat Control"...

George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty Four"
unnervingly predicts this frightening situation with Big Brother
and the Thought Police.



Good news for me though, is that at eighty years of age I will
most likely be pushing up the daises before the bastards come
for me!

coothead

This post has been edited by coothead: Jun 20 2024, 09:35 AM

[pandy]

Yes, it's almost here now. Here they also lobby for allowing surveillance cameras with face recognition now. Only to be used to fight organized crime, of course...

[Christian J]

Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windo...-and-reinstalls

[pandy]

I don't even know what that is but it doesn't sound like something I want.

Yet another point on my list of worries and disappointments. I learnt the other day that eBooks from the library will no longer be offered from the web. You must download them with through their app Biblio. Who wants to read novels on the phone?

They will no longer use Acobe DRM but instead something new called Readium LCP.. Adobe DRM is easy to remove so you can move the book freely between units. It's not even illegal to remove the DRM as long as you don't distribute the book, not in the US anyway. I don't really care if it is here. What's worse is that they'll be moving from epub to another format, don't know what that will be but I fear PDF.

The reason to all this is an EU directive because epub isn't accessible enough. Something about that text to speech doesn't work. Strange since epub is just zipped up HTML. Must have to do with the interpreter.

You can install Biblio on some ebook readers with android OS. But Biblio is horrible for books. It seems to turn nicely flowing HTML text into something PDF like with hard linebreaks. The text size can't be changed. You can zoom, but if you zoom in part of the text ends up outside the screen.

So how is it accessible to force people to read books on their phones, I wonder? My eyes would bleed after 20 minutes. And why can't they offer the books in both formats, so everyone can get what they want?