Well, now I’m gonna start never installing Windows 11 even harder.
You can stall it without a ms account and only a local account. You need Rufus to create a new usb stick. https://rufus.ie
I used Rufus alright. To create a Linux installation drive. I then realised how good Linux has gotten and I have been using it as my daily driver ever since.
Fuck Microsoft and their increasingly frequent habit of abusing their dominant position on the market to force undesirable features down their user’s throats.
It’s happened so many times now that these tech news articles have gotten into a habit of including a paragraph on “how to turn off the latest stupid thing Microsoft pushed onto Windows”, because they know people keep looking for these answers.
If Recall went through, so much for “it’s all localized and offline.”
I understand its (currently) not happening, but if Microsoft was able to deflect the criticism long enough, and since no company makes a change like this overnight (The time to approve of the privacy policies, shifting of storage for it, the increased traffic on their servers needing to be accommodated), can you imagine just having it still installed and enabled by default?
Isn’t that data theft or something? I know the legal situation for users victims in the US is generally bleak, but uploading private data without consent must be something that should have consequences even in the land of the free businesses.