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I am strongly considering transitioning from my mix of Outlook & Google to Proton.

I did read your linked article but I believe that Proton would leave Switzerland if that law were to pass and find a new location for their service.

I simply have never trusted Microsoft and their OneDrive service to be secure from the US government.  Free is never free.

Now I need to find my tinfoil hat.

 

I tried searching via Google and what I found is here:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/how-to-delete-outlook-and-reinstall-it/0f8fdb53-b359-45b6-93e0-e9e1356f842f

 

I hate those volunteer MS Community Moderators because I never know if they are giving good advice or bad advice.  Good luck.

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Ken

I also use Roboform.  I may have 400 login passwords saved and they are all unique and the master password is also unique.  For some reason, maybe advertising dollars, it never makes it into the top tier of recommended managers online, but I really like it.

No thanks.

I have OneDrive disabled.

I don’t want anything to do with Co-Pilot.  Before we have artificial intelligence we, as a society, need normal intelligence.

(Hang on a second, I need to find something.)

Found it.  I am now wearing my tinfoil hat.

I have contended for more than 10 years that one of the alphabet agencies, the one with headquarters south of Baltimore, has a large degree of input and control over M$.  Because I feel this way I am always skeptical of things that come out of M$.  Co-Pilot, to me, is exactly why I feel this way.

Yeah, I do that too.

Thanks.

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Fred

I had the 16KB  TRS-80!!

Is it still safe to use a password manager and have fully unique passwords for all of my various sites/accounts?  I honestly do not understand the passphrase thing, at least as long as you use long and unique passwords for everything.  Thanks.

McCord was the 25th Air Division and it had the same blockhouse as the 20th Air Division at Ft. Lee had.  I now live 6 miles from Luke AFB and that was where the 26th AD was located.  That blockhouse is still standing and it is their CBPO and other admin things.

This is what a blockhouse looked like.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment

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Steve S., Will Fastie

Will,

If you were at Ft. Lee did you ever see The Blockhouse? Inside it were two SAGE computers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment)that controlled all the airspace from Atlantic City to Texas, although normally from Florida all the way to the Texas/Mexico border was controlled from a unit at Tyndall AFB.

The whole second floor had two computers that ran on vacuum tubes. If the air conditioning failed we had four minutes to get out or die of asphyxiation.

I worked in Ops so was very infrequently on the 2nd floor. But the technology was amazing for that time in history.

I am suggesting that this thread be permanently affixed to the top of the topic.

Yesterday I received information pointing to Google enabling more AI via the Chrome browser.  So this morning I was planning on doing something about that because I do not want an AI in my system at all.  So before permanently swapping from Chrome to Firefox or Duck Duck Go I wanted to see if Ask Woody had anything on this topic a voila, it was right in front of me.  So I took the advice of Alex 5723, read the article that he had tabbed and enacted the changes that were discussed in the article.  It was easy to follow and I manually made the changes via RegEdit.  (There is also a script that can be run if you don’t want to do manual changes in RegEdit.

Anyway this was awesome information on restricting AI inside of Chrome.  I believe that it should be tagged to the top of Chrome AI Powered Features.

Including things that are nested inside folders within the All Save folder?  My folders appeared but there is no information within them.  This may be a function of my desktop Outlook has been POP/SMTP and I think that the laptop auto set it to a Microsoft Exchange type.

So how would I best sync this scenario?

Thanks for your response.

John

My OS is Windows 11 Pro and I am on version 22H2. How or where can I communicate to Microsoft that I don’t want to transition to 23H2 if that means I must use Co-Pilot.

Hi Ben and Happy New Year.

I have never used OneDrive because have a basic trust issue with them.  I do have ShadowProtect SPX and run weekly full images and incrementals three times a week.

So from where you sit, should I change my thinking on this and go ahead and start using OneDrive?

Thanks,

John

I am in the same boat because of the wording.  Did those nice people at MS cause even more confusion bu having it names “Turn off Windows Copilot” and then hitting disable in that so people would think they wanted to Enable that tab?