I don't want this feature. I have LaTeX documents on my computer containing my personal thoughts. Some of them I want to keep to myself. And some of them contain my own ideas that I find embarrassing. I don't want to hand those documents over to Microsoft servers, nor do I want them used for AI training. I want them to know that these deeply personal thoughts are mine.

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renegade-otter 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Microsoft once pushed an update that started uploading my data to OneDrive. I had no idea until I was kindly informed that my cloud storage was out of space.

At this point I would ALWAYS assume that anything I do on a Windows system is not completely private, and the only true way to make a PC secure from Microsoft is to air-gap it.

Also, this is completely ridiculous.

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ryandrake 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You basically have to treat all components of Windows as malware. Your personal threat model needs to include Microsoft as an attacker.

	▲	userbinator 17 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Microsoft's threat model seems to include the user as an attacker, so that's fair.
	▲	reactordev 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		At this point, I would agree. Microsoft Windows is now banned from my network.
	▲	mindslight 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have a Windows VM with net access (through a consumer VPN) that I install software in, make sure it's all up to date and whatnot. To do any real work I then take a snapshot and run it on its own VLAN with the only reachable thing being my own samba server.

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bschwindHN 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would recommend using Linux if you want control over this stuff. Microsoft does not, and never will, respect you or your privacy. Apple _hopefully_ does but we can't be sure. Linux is the main option if you care this much about it.

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Mashimo 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is this AI agent not running locally?

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KetoManx64 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is the reason that no longer sync my notes or journals from my Linux devices to my last Windows install on my desktop. I dual boot Linux on it as well and I encrypt the Linux disk so that windows can't scan the files on it just in case for the rare occasions I boot into Windows to access a program that isn't available on Linux.

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dcgudeman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Honestly, if you're writing diary entries in LaTeX and convinced people are desperate to read them, just use Linux. It’s the natural habitat for that level of unwarranted self-importance.

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OsrsNeedsf2P 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would you ever keep private thoughts on your PC? That's asking for trouble