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)
I like the part where windows selects a random media you have in your web browser tabs to show on the lock screen. No way that could go badly for someone.
I had this once, and I don’t know why and how it happened. I live in a shared flat, otherwise I wouldn’t care. Ever since I use a veracrypt to store such stuff, so that it doesn’t happen ever again.
What the actual fuck. You know, I lock the screen because I don’t want people to see what I am doing.
My work machine occasionally displays the contents of the active cell in Excel over the lockscreen. I can’t imagine this going wrong. It’s somewhat rare but I’m ready to take photos the next time it happens, could yield some bug bounty.
Source? Never heard of this before.
That doesn’t exist. I’m looking at the page right now and this does not exist.
Ohhhhhh, you meant to say media player controls not media. This actually makes sense, and is valid if you’re the type of person who never looks at settings and expects
Microsoftany corporate software engineer ever to take your privacy to heart.It’s also how your phone (regardless of make) and the other major OS vendor both work. It’s also how the bluetooth in your car works. You dont have to like it but if you refuse to look at device settings you’re gonna get boned at some point.
Blame Firefox for, 15 years after release, finally integrating with the system-wide media API.
No, I’m going to blame Windows. My phone is in my pocket or face down on my desk when it’s locked so whatever i’m listening to isn’t visible I can’t very well do this with a monitor. There’s exactly zero reason for this functionality to exist on a desktop especially if they’re not even going to give you an option to turn it off. There’s no setting in windows for this. I’ve looked. There no setting to turn this off without doing it through the media control setting in firefox which takes your keyboard media controls down with it. That’s not a fix.
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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…
I once lived somewhere I was sharing wifi with the neighbors, any time I’d right click on some porn Windows would give the option to stream it to their smart tv, I could not figure out how to disable it so this no longer happens.
Did it only offer this for porn?
Any media file also
that is a much less interesting tech anomaly
Seriously since when Windowd does this ? Asking for a friend so they don’t accidentally send me their porn.
Obviously it doesn’t
