According to Microsoft’s documentation, a user can only change the setting to enable or disable the new People section three times a year.
However, it is that seemingly arbitrary three-times-a-year limit applied to the People section that is most concerning. Why not four? Why not as many times as a user wants?
If it works the same way Immich does, probably because they have to retrain the models every time you turn it back on and want to aboid poeple turning it on when they need it, then off again, then back on, … Although a less shitty mehod would be to limit the amount of times you can turn it on but I guess that iterferes with their goal of harvesting your data.
IMO current best case scenario
Not sure why people are talking about the “you can only enable or disable it 3 times a year” as if it’s an issue? This is generally a thing you’d either turn off or on once, depending on what it defaults to. Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why would they need to limit you?
Irrelevant. Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?
three times a year.
WTF is up with MS doing this rate limiting? I just learned that Win11 will lock you out of your own machine for 2 hours if you restart too many times, like if you have a dualboot and are doing something that requires restarts to resolve.
This is why I decided to dual-boot Ubuntu and Win10 until I’m fully comfortable on Linux. Every single thing about Win11 just makes my skin crawl.
Last week it was the news that they’re eliminating methods to install the OS at all without being signed into a MS account. The degree of snooping had no plausible explanation other than for Microsoft to harvest and sell your data.
As someone who was in your exact position several years ago, nice!
I’d recommend Linux Mint to newcomers though. It’s based on Ubuntu and is even easier to get comfortable with (much better GUI for updates and app “store”), but it strips out all the Microsoft-like stuff that Canonical have been doing in recent years.
Pop!_OS (also based on Ubuntu) and Bazzite are also meant to be beginner friendly, and are particularly geared towards gaming on Linux, especially the latter.
I started with mint, but the more I see about Bazzite the more I wish I had started there. It just seems slightly more aligned to my needs.
You won’t regret it! Ubuntu is a solid choice for your first foray into Linux.
What the shit? Ooh, I need to test this on my work computer!
it’s a very good feature. if you have too much work and need a longer break, just restart a few times. i may need to change my work laptop from macbook to a windows
You have a work MacBook? Man, your company must be filthy stinkin’ rich.
we have macbooks, windows laptops and even ubuntus. they give us any hardware we want, even 50" ultrawides 😅
We all have MacBook Pros because we don’t want to deal with IT. It’s better than Windows, but I miss Linux.
Why are they using electricity for stuff no one asked for? It seems to be too cheap over there…
But if we feed enough data to the AI slop machine, one day you can get your own Knight Rider car! /s
I’m holding out for an Airwolf or Street Hawk.
Why do you think no one asks for stuff like this? Facial recognition is one of the best features of photo storage systems as it lets you easily find all of your photos that have certain people in them. It’s fantastic for making shared albums with family members where any pics of certain people are automatically added once recognized.
Onedrive having it makes using Onedrive for photo storage and sharing a much better experience.
Only if it can be done locally. I don’t want my fucking face going out to a bunch of asshole corporations databases any more than absolutely necessary. Shit like this is why I don’t let people take my picture.
It’s not?
Do you not understand how cloud services work?
If you really want it, you should be able to enable it. No reason to do that with the other 90% who don’t need it.
So your argument now is just that it should be disabled by default?
The fuck is that goddamn thumbnail. You keep shalehket out of this shit.
Yeah it’s in awful taste; thanks for pointing it out. For those who are not familiar with the art installation: https://www.jmberlin.de/en/shalekhet-fallen-leaves
If I hadn’t abandoned OneDrive already, this would make me do so.
Yeah but they are taking your data from the laptop your mum bought yesterday and put all the family vacation pictures on. Mum didn’t know she had to kill off OneDrive or Microsoft will hoover up and monetise your memories.
Jokes on them, the friends and family that aren’t techs are mac users. I’m the only w11 user and that’s only for work. (And you bet your fat arse that’s lobotomised)
Fortunately not… I’m generally the one responsible for IT maintenance with my parents’ as they get older. Disabled OneDrive long ago since they don’t use it.
No, you really, truly can’t “rugged individualism” your way out of a societal problem. Remember that wedding you went to a few months ago? Someone uploaded this photos and now your social graph has been recorded. When your friend’s kid had a birthday party a few weeks ago? You were uploaded and graphed again. When you were out at that restaurant and you were in the background of someone’s date selfie? Graphed again.
The only solution to this problem is real data protection law, like the GDPR in the EU.
Oh, I definitely agree. We need better privacy and data protection laws here in Australia too. In the meantime, however, I do what I can to minimise my footprint. I’m well aware that other people are going to be the weak link!
In Europe this probably goes against GDPR, right? If I don’t agree, they should not collect my face
I think that’s why it’s recommended to encrypt files containing personal information with a separate tool before uploading them to any cloud service. It prevents big data from automatically processing your Information and protects you from leaks.
By mates, do they mean buddies or procreative partners?
Australians
Yes
Both are good
Ha, joke’s on you Microsoft: I don’t have any mates.
Jokes on them, I don’t have any mates!
So, will this look through porn videos as well? Asking for a friend.
I’m done defending idiots. Use sh%t, get hit.
