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You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users::Like it or not, the Windows Backup app installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is here to stay, with Microsoft calling it a "system component" that can't be

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[–] Treczoks 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

I consider everyone still using Windows by now to be masochists of the worst kind.

Who would want to have backups of important files on a Microsoft server? Probably located in the USA, where it's contents are free game for the snooping agencies? If you are not a US citizen (and even that is no real protection) they will hoover every byte about you "just in case".

[–] Ghostalmedia 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’m waiting for the inevitable Lemmy comment from an engineer or sys admin that tells me to install Linux.

[–] jimbolauski 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well have you installed Linux yet?

[–] Ghostalmedia 1 points 1 year ago

Got it on some stuff in the house, but my daily driver another OS in the *nix family.

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