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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 2 months ago*

I don't want this kind of connectivity between my phone and PC courtesy of MS.

I already have it via VPN and just use either RDP or (like you) SSH. It's easy to send a "shutdown -r -f -t 0"

Hell, I have shortcuts on my phone to reboot my personal machines - laptops, VM's, even my ESXi host.

MS over here acting like we haven't been able to do this for years with off-the-shelf tools.

Also, who shuts down boxes these days? That's what power management is for. If you left it on, I assume you wanted it on.

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[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I hope it includes restart, that would be really useful.

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 point 2 months ago (5 children)

I had a customer drop off their PC for service and they had the "all-in" setup- everything in Windows signed in, opted in to everything imaginable, including the phone link app.

While I worked on their PC I got copies of every phone notification, as well as the ability to act on those notifications. I saw every SMS his wife sent him. Everything. Just pop-up notifications in my face. Very nearly hit the "activate alarm" button for their home security system multiple times.

If you use this, you are the absolute bottom of the barrel- the dumbest buffoon to have ever existed. If you use Window's "phone link" app, you should be absolutely ashamed of yourself.

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[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's like saying the customer gave me the password to their PC or phone, and then I had access to all their files and photos.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

It's not though. It's worse than that- much worse. It's "Then I had access to the user documents, files, settings, SMS and text history. Wanna know if they prefer blondes or brunettes?" because that's exactly what it was.

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[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The tech is supposed to be the expert. He/her should be guiding the customer so they don't expose themselves. This is not a 'dumb customer ' story. It's a 'incompetent tech' story for not asking the right questions or providing the right guidance. Former tech guy.

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

I disagree. Anyone willing to hand control of their entire life to an app, sacrifice telemetry 24/7 is an idiot regardless of education. Trying to fix people like this is a losing game.

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[–] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

When you give your device over to a tech support department, it is on them to tell the customer of potential security issues with the customers data. To me, it's no different then accessing a customer's glove box when you are servicing their car. If it doesn't pertain to the work order, it's none of your business.