This is good info, but be careful about suggestions of Microsoft products, Office, Word, Bing, etc. Microsoft is just as evil if not worse than Google and imo not an alternative at all.
I can confirm Microsoft IS another privacy domino.
Why do you think MS Teams is such a bloated piece of crap? You'll see that it eats up a ton of RAM on the system.
It acts as this weird mediary between all MS Office documents, PDF viewer, internet browsing, downloading, storage, etc. None of this is really necessary if you have other programs like Adobe/Sumatra. Dropbox etc.
All of this is connected to your Microsoft account, which you have to authenticate with your phone, and enter with your fingerprint.
Thats why Win10 was a free upgrade, theres all sorts of privacy issues with Microsoft. Microsoft is basically competing with Google by copying their strategy.
OMG f Microsoft Teams. My work computer has 8gb of RAM /w HDD (ie not SSD) and the profile keeps making Teams load in the Background during startup. Along with Mcafee and other work programs they used up over 90% of RAM, which makes the HDD work very hard and makes the computer very sluggish.
Example: Opening the NOTEPAD takes over 30 seconds. Notepad!
Really ought to talk to your bosses about switching to Open office, Libre office, or some other Open Source alternative... Might have to go over the IT guy's head, though, depending on how much of a Microsoft fanboy he is (I honestly can't believe such creatures exist, except that I've seen them)
Libre and Open office are basically the same software except a hell of a lot less bloated, and the use the classic menu interface that Microsoft keeps trying to break, because new and shiny is somehow better than familiar and coherent...
I had a hard drive failure a few months ago, but had backed up what I cared about prior to it. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I brought my computer to a repair place and the guy said it would be a little over $200 to put in a new solid state hard drive. I decided to do it myself (youtube is good for a lot of things :) ). I bought one for about $125. I had to re-install Windows 10, but what was weird, even though I never signed up for any kind of backup with Microsoft, some of my personal photos re-appeared when Win10 was installed! (they were in a screen-saver folder, or something like that). It was almost like Microsoft was telling me, ever so subtly, "We have everything!". The good news is, with the old hard drive, it would take about a minute for the laptop to boot up from a cold start, now it takes about 10 seconds.
Ive got a linux phone i have no idea how to use. Pinephone. Im not much of a programing guy but i cut my teeth on 3d printer firmware and it was a ton of fun. Easy simpleton type of stuff is right up my ally.
This phone has hardware kill switches for the mic, cam, wifi and a few others. Still glitchy from the reviews ive watched, but i could resist. Ever since watching enemy of the state years ago that has been my understanding of what we are up against.
They have been using echelon to monitor all communication since before the internet. They've got ALL the data.
microsoft goes through your stuff too, I had an archive of my research on onedrive and I got my account locked. After literally a couple months they responded that I had objectionable content (violence or terror attacks) in my share. Probably 9-11 documentaries or something.
This is good info, but be careful about suggestions of Microsoft products, Office, Word, Bing, etc. Microsoft is just as evil if not worse than Google and imo not an alternative at all.
I can confirm Microsoft IS another privacy domino.
Why do you think MS Teams is such a bloated piece of crap? You'll see that it eats up a ton of RAM on the system.
It acts as this weird mediary between all MS Office documents, PDF viewer, internet browsing, downloading, storage, etc. None of this is really necessary if you have other programs like Adobe/Sumatra. Dropbox etc.
All of this is connected to your Microsoft account, which you have to authenticate with your phone, and enter with your fingerprint.
Thats why Win10 was a free upgrade, theres all sorts of privacy issues with Microsoft. Microsoft is basically competing with Google by copying their strategy.
OMG f Microsoft Teams. My work computer has 8gb of RAM /w HDD (ie not SSD) and the profile keeps making Teams load in the Background during startup. Along with Mcafee and other work programs they used up over 90% of RAM, which makes the HDD work very hard and makes the computer very sluggish.
Example: Opening the NOTEPAD takes over 30 seconds. Notepad!
Sonny, back in my day 8mb of RAM was a lot.
Really ought to talk to your bosses about switching to Open office, Libre office, or some other Open Source alternative... Might have to go over the IT guy's head, though, depending on how much of a Microsoft fanboy he is (I honestly can't believe such creatures exist, except that I've seen them)
Libre and Open office are basically the same software except a hell of a lot less bloated, and the use the classic menu interface that Microsoft keeps trying to break, because new and shiny is somehow better than familiar and coherent...
I had a hard drive failure a few months ago, but had backed up what I cared about prior to it. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, I brought my computer to a repair place and the guy said it would be a little over $200 to put in a new solid state hard drive. I decided to do it myself (youtube is good for a lot of things :) ). I bought one for about $125. I had to re-install Windows 10, but what was weird, even though I never signed up for any kind of backup with Microsoft, some of my personal photos re-appeared when Win10 was installed! (they were in a screen-saver folder, or something like that). It was almost like Microsoft was telling me, ever so subtly, "We have everything!". The good news is, with the old hard drive, it would take about a minute for the laptop to boot up from a cold start, now it takes about 10 seconds.
Sheesh! Do you write horror novels? 😳 Thats the scariest thing I've read all day! 🥶
Ive got a linux phone i have no idea how to use. Pinephone. Im not much of a programing guy but i cut my teeth on 3d printer firmware and it was a ton of fun. Easy simpleton type of stuff is right up my ally. This phone has hardware kill switches for the mic, cam, wifi and a few others. Still glitchy from the reviews ive watched, but i could resist. Ever since watching enemy of the state years ago that has been my understanding of what we are up against. They have been using echelon to monitor all communication since before the internet. They've got ALL the data.
Aw man! I missed out on getting one!
I waited a good month or so for mine to come.
M$ Office: Open Office, Libre Office Word: see above Bing: DuckDuckGo, Brave Search
Honestly, it's kinda scary how good bing actually is. If it wasn't owned by microsoft, I'd almost recommend it.
Almost
https://harpazo.proboards.com/thread/57393/duck-left-political-donations-abuse
They aren't the privacy safe haven they claim. I've stopped using them.
Brave search, Linux Mint, libreoffice
microsoft goes through your stuff too, I had an archive of my research on onedrive and I got my account locked. After literally a couple months they responded that I had objectionable content (violence or terror attacks) in my share. Probably 9-11 documentaries or something.
What did Q say? backup offline?
Yeah. he was talking about THIS time.