The heck kind of windows did that? Never heard of the photos app doing either of those things, especially sending emails without your permission.
Yea… /r/thathappened
It’s a joke I laughed (Linux user)
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I love that anons can’t realize that this is obviously fake and intentional to make you paranoid enough to make the unix/linux swap. Windows recall is here. This post is fake for now…but it’s a matter of time folks
This makes me distrust Linux more coincidentally. If someone keeps telling me over and over to use something I am less likely to have positive opinion of it. That and I tried Linux for a home theater streaming client device and it was a train wreck. No proper HDR support, no Dolby Atmos, issues with VRR, display not remembering settings/DPI. I gave up and went to windows and was done with it in an hour.
Like none of these things are new but they still are unsupported unfortunately. Ive tried to use Linux a bunch of times but literally never could get a fully working system due to too new hardware, missing features, incompatibilities…
What if I told you your inability to do something was not an argument against it?
Ubuntu LTS has worked out of the box on 90% of PC hardware for over a decade
Yea it’s just the obsession that is so of putting to me. Like why does it have to be rubbed in my face constantly here. Sigh. I left Reddit since I did not agree with their policies and how they handled the API privatization/AI crap. All I’m saying is for a good chunk of people out there, and I venture it’s closer to 90% of the people, not 10%. It’s unworkable for one reason or another be it inability to understand the system or incompatibilities.
Y’all are a great group of people but just need to dial it back couple of notches for us normies.
Those saying it’s not a real thing, it kind of is but not as how green text suggests. My dad, for reasons, had certain images of a flirtatious neighbor (uuuuugghhh!!) and also had a OneDrive app on his phone for work which has a habit of deciding quite randomly what to share.
According to him, which do take this with a grain of salt, OneDrive shared these photos not just with IT at his job, but frequently threatened to share the images with contacts. Also, his Alexa app got in on the fun and displayed the images to his echo show… I needed eye bleach.
Can this be done on PC? Y’know, plausible. I’ve had windows randomly make porn my wallpaper before, and that was in my spare drive and in a folder labeled 2005 tax info. And that wasn’t even recent, who knows now.
Lol okay sure. That never happened, oh hey want to buy this portable black hole I’ve got in my garage?
A grain of salt? I’ll take this with a bag of salt if you don’t mind
Technologically impaired pervy old people and Windows are always a bad mix.
I was once the trigger to fire an old accounting guy from a company because I was helping him do something with a cloud feature of office and a porn notification showed up. He had inadvertently installed some notifications from a porn website.
After the awkwardest silence in history I had to inform him that I needed to report that to management. He just said, ok.
IT later discovered that he was not only watching porn on company time. He was also taking creep pictures of female coworkers and saving them to the company gdrive. Upon further inspection, he was not only a pervert, he was also embezzling money. We had to file several criminal charges against him.
I guess the old adage of ‘break only one law at a time’ holds true. If he weren’t a pervert we never would’ve noticed the stealing.
Yup! Actually, it’s not just old age, alcohol played a part too. Old + alcohol + Microsoft’s intrusive policies do lead to problems. Didn’t lose a job though, since it was clearly a mistake and he didn’t technically violate any rule. At the same workplace though, yhere was a guy who worked with the police department who did diddle kids, and they found out in a similar way (though that guy did kill himself though before going to court).
I worked Apple support for a while and I’d have people call in convinced of the craziest things about their devices.
That’s an entire bag of manure
with how thoroughly I’ve seen my friends and family fuck up their pcs, the above story does not surprise me at all. I myself have had obscure issues with windows that other people find unbelievable.
Agreed, i literally can’t imagine being so computer illiterate as to make the described events happen.
Back when I was a kid we downloaded Napster and shared everything. Now the tech giants are Reverse-Napster and sharing everyone
They got big mad and decided to reverse Uno us.
Seriously since when Windowd does this ? Asking for a friend so they don’t accidentally send me their porn.
Obviously it doesn’t
Is that actually a thing? I haven’t used Windows in a year.
No, absolutely not lol. DO NOT get feedback from how Windows behaves on Lemmy.
It’s def a thing that is congregates your media and shares it to you, idk about others
I’m guessing it’s hyperbole based on microsofts newest push for its OS to save all your data to their servers instead of your own hdd and maybe a hint of the gross Windows Recall "feature"in win11.
Yes surely fake.
But anyone using MS OneDrive for personal stuff might want to check with some privacy advice - and I doubt MS are going to recommend doing that.
If MS is giving large increases in cloud storage and bandwidth for free/very cheap one wonders whether there’s anything in it for MS. Again MS might not feel the need to say.
