HW News - Microsoft Keeps Ruining Windows, Valve Lawsuit, '4090' in the 4070 Ti Super

This one got a little delayed since we ended up focusing on all those reviews last week (NH-D15 G2, Thermalright AIO, & Antec case), but also because of this Zotac story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHxQC95syc0 You can catch the Noctua G2 review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=heriTDWIU2g And the Antec C8 case review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAq2H52A2A

It's becoming increasingly difficult to install Windows with a local-only account. I have to wonder how soon Microsoft will "fix" the OOBE workaround because its existence was... ah yes, "confusing" for some users.

My neighbour brought me her laptop because it was out of space to save files. I looked at it and it was saving everything to OneDrive and it was asking her to pay in order to upgrade for more space. Meanwhile, her 1 terrabyte hard drive was just sitting there empty. This was last year.

Most "Opt Out" Windows options seem to have a habit of turning themselves back on.

About Onedrive 07:05, I've had a shit experience too regarding unauthorised uploads. For reference, I use Windows 10 on a local account. Couple years back when I started taking online classes in Infosec, part of the perks of the school was a 1TB Onedrive allowance (along with access to the various Microsoft office tools, VMWare, etc). I figured it could be a good idea to have Onedrive sync the folder I use for school stuff, and ONLY that folder. Booted up Onedrive and started configuring. They had set it to automatically select all the folders in Documents (like video, music, etc) so I deselected those, then navigated to the folder with my school stuff, and selected ONLY that folder. Lo and behold, Onedrive didn't give a shit and just uploaded all the content in those folders anyway. Bear in mind, Onedrive said it would SYNC the contents between Onedrive and my PC, which means the data will be accessible AT BOTH LOCATIONS. Apparently, Microsoft thinks that "synchronise" means "upload everything to the cloud and remove from the local PC". Then I had to wait for it to fully upload - because of course I couldn't just cancel it - then download everything again AFTER I had to disable and completely remove Onedrive from starting because OF COURSE once I had downloaded the data once, it would just automatically upload everything once more... Onedrive is absolute trash and does not even do what it says on the tin, I will forever and always dissuade people from using it. Microsoft seems to be hell-bent on making Windows and its programs and offerings so trash that I will be switching to Linux before Win10 support ends.

I had to use the OOBE bypass command to finish setting up a computer I built this weekend. Windows didn't have a driver for the built-in WiFi, and the machine had no access to an Ethernet connection. Would have been stuck, had I not been able to use this command to finish the install. At which point I had to download the WiFi driver on another machine and use a USB to get it onto the one I was building. What a bunch of bullshit. Whoever makes these decisions at Microsoft really needs to give their heads a shake.

Recently installed a new Windows 11, didn't notice it at first. Not only did Windows, by default, upload the content of my Downloads folder, but it also masked that the Downloads folder was, in fact, the OneDrive folder. By giving it the User/Downloads name in the address bar but also the local folder icon. It's bizarre that someone thought this was good behavior.

One of the cool thing things regarding Steam Game Recording is that it drops timeline pins when you get an achievement or take a screenshot - makes it pretty easy to navigate multi-hour footage

Re: 19 billion spent on unplayed Steam games I've done my part; On the other hand, I am slowly working through my back log. On the 3rd hand, (As Lt. Arex would say) - everytime there is a major sale, all of my hard work on lowering my backlog of games goes out the window.

The worst thing about what MS is doing is how awful Teams is.

On the value of unplayed steam games; I would also point out that steam hasn't always tracked play time(started 2009). I have a number of games on my account that I finished but show no play time. Notably Half-life 2 and its episodes.

1:51 how dare Valve make sure Steam is the best option for its customers

I have been using Linux Distros for the past 20 years. Was dual booting till about 7 years ago, but now solely Linux. I understand gaming options might be a bit difficult, but it is not like it used to be. I play quite a few games thanks to projects like Proton, which has allowed me to play Witcher 3, Total War, etc.

Seriously what is up with teams? My workplace 'upgraded' to the enterprise version of teams and it is complete garbage, constantly crashing when joining meetings, updating DURING meetings forcing you to re-open it, crashing when leaving meetings, microphone not registering, webcam being completely black, glitchy presence detection etc. The non-enterprise version was insanely stable and had decent integration with the rest of the stack we use on my team.

I'm fairly certain automatic uploads to onedrive has been there for a while, there's been countless times where a few of my friends and family couldn't do anything with their MS accounts because their onedrives got full so quick. I had to help them get rid of onedrive completely from their systems and clear their cloud storages so they could use their accounts again. It's just so annoying for windows to back up your things to the internet behind your back and have the audacity to lock you out of your own account when it attempts to back up more than their limit and try to charge you for more cloud space.

New follower here. But gotta say the running timeline of what news at what time at the left is awesome!

3:52 Casually throwing shades at youtube, haha

I already sorted out my one drive trying to steal all my data. It wasn't easy to do either. Recall is their second attempt at industrial data scrapping and theft.

Interesting that a LAW FIRM would bring up the charging of 30% when the most common cut a law firm gets for it's work is 33%.

The format you guys use for your videos, including things like time-stamps, progress bar for time for the current segment, and direct facts instead of opinions, is the best format I've seen for any news channel - hardware related or otherwise. Thanks guys for all the time you put into these things.