Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by AJ007 on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:00PM
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I saw that pop up on one of my parent's computers. The hardware is old enough that it didn't want to install Windows 11, but Microsoft still managed to push that shit. Within an hour I wiped the drive of Windows.
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Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by ocbyc on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @12:56AM
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You have multiple parents or they have multiple computers?
What did you replace Windows with?
Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by hutzlibu on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:18AM
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"What did you replace Windows with?"
Haiku probably ... s/
The only real alternative option with most hardware is linux. And when the use case is browsing the internet and you are there to help them unstuck a broken update, things should be fine.
Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by froggit on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @03:51AM
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Grammatically, the location of the apostrophe makes parent singular. However, it seems weird if I think of it that way, likely because pronunciation as a whole is the same regardless of parent being singular or plural. Computers is plural regardless. This really doesn't effect me ib any way, but somehow seeing someone else want to know makes me want to know.
Re:Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
by petepete on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @04:46AM
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Similar happened to my parents years ago. Windows 7, working perfectly. My mum kept seeing a popup asking "do you want to upgrade to Windows 10?" and every time (for months) clicked close.
Then, they changed the button layout and put a "install" button where the close button was, and she installed it without realising. Some bits of hardware weren't supported in Windows 10 and I had to go around and mess around with drivers, which I failed at.
So, she's been on Fedora since. Considering all she did on Windows was light browsing in Firefox and many hours of Pysol, she barely even noticed the switch.