Microsoft Rule

I think it’s a cool idea in principle. I just don’t trust the company with my data even if they claim it is stored locally, but then again that’s why I don’t use their OS.

Yeah, I'd totally use whatever FOSS equivalent eventually makes it to the Linux desktop once it's actually usable.
- Gpt4all is avalible on linux, it is an open source software that can run LLMs locally.
- It might not be long if the idea works. We already have good local LLMs.

Well at least this surely will be easily disabled and then not keep re-enabling itself when Windows forgets its own settings every couple weeks(!)

It won't on... wait for it... Linux!
- I use arch btw /s
- Sure.
  
  Then you get the occasional fun experience of a maintainer fucking up a package definition or two, and all of a sudden you can't update your system or run a program because there's a tangled mess of dependency conflicts and you get to spend the afternoon force reinstalling system libraries. Love ya' Void :')
  
  Been trying NixOS which is great for avoiding that kind of thing, but it comes with it's own set of annoyances. I really ought to just settle on a more stable distro like Debian lol.

I'm not even going to install Windows 11

Yeah, I've been trying for over a decade to switch to Linux, but the pain points have been too much for me. This is it though, MS is making it impossible to continue with their spyware crap. I have to find a way to make the switch before 10 reaches end of life.
- I tried the switch a while back and gave up. I tried a few months ago again with Mint and I haven't looked back. Now I'm looking to change to another distro. Mint is the perfect Linux entry drug. Just install it on another drive if you have one kicking around so you don't commit to destroying your windows install just yet.
- Same, Linux has always been a cool Idea but not worth going through the trouble of installing, now Microsoft is making the alternative way more trouble.
- Yeah I tried installing it a year or two ago, but a lot of the hardware on my laptop (only machine atm) was not compatible. It was stuff like the touchpad not even being detected. I booted into the same install iso a few months ago and somehow it all worked.
  
  It's a shit show sometimes, but it can surprise you
All this fuckery convinced me to start experimenting with Linux, just keeping windows on a backup PC for the couple of games that may not work...
- I had been doing that since 2018 and this year I realized I hadn't booted to Windows for years and uninstalled it.
  I'm not a Linux expert at all, I use the GUI for 99% of tasks and I'm having a great time.

Even if this data wasn’t stolen by Microsoft (it will be) and sold to every advertiser everywhere (it WILL BE)

Having screenshots taken of your PC every few seconds and then stored on your hard drive is going to nuke your storage in a matter of days, maybe weeks at the most

According to available information that I've come across, everything is processed on-device and encrypted and 25gb can store months of rewind data depending on how much and how you use your device. At that rate, a terabyte should store about a decade of history (I can't think of anything you would need to go that far back for though).

If security researchers don't find sussy behavior where Recall sends back some sort of data beyond basic telemetry, there's not really any higher of a privacy risk compared to using your computer as you currently do. Also you can disable it for certain applications and delete history when you want to (or disable the feature altogether). People are being really weird about this for reasons that have already been addressed.
- Here’s the issue, though. It’s a corporation saying they pinky promise not to steal even more of your data, and I don’t trust them any more than I can purchase their company
  
  That is to say, not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a thousandth of a percent

So happy Windows is protecting us from spyware and malware.

Now, we have to protect ourselves from Microsoft.

For somebody who's last windows experience was windows 7: what did they come up now again?

Now introducing Microsoft dildonics. We will tell you when to put it in your holes.

I'll use it at work because I don't give a fuck about that machine but not for my personal machine.

Like the F in "Oh, what a bleak, horrible future we live in!"

I predict GNUL desktop at 5%

I don't expect MS will give you the choice. Not as far as the whole spying on you part is concerned, at least.

Quaid, start the reactor.

Sorry to ask, but what is a "Microsoft Recall"?

From the MS website:

Recall utilizes Windows Copilot Runtime to help you find anything you’ve seen on your PC. Search using any clues you remember or use the timeline to scroll through your past activity, including apps, documents, and websites.

A "feature" coming to Windows 11. Essentially a keylogger on steroids... Powered by AI of course, because what isn't these days.
- Holy Shit. And here I am, hosting my own messaging, automation and syncronization services to be independend on providers, run AI locally, do not even leave emails on the server and they pull that stunt.

Oh man, someone just released a stand up bit about this - Government applications - Connor O'Malley https://youtu.be/796IdEW5yfI

That wasn't bad! Very relevant

Also, damn! Democrats are so fucked in Nov
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Homer looks like that ape nft

I don't get the hate for this. It's just browser history but for your whole PC. The number of times this would have saved people from losing important documents or unfucking things they did wrong up to this point makes me wonder how they never thought of this before now.

The whole PC isn’t a browser, there are things that I don’t want saved every few seconds, with potentially sensitive details. Bank or medical info is a bit different than having a link to a webpage. And no, I don’t believe all this will stay local. Even if not straight away, it will eventually be sold to advertisers one way or another
- I definitely don't want Microsoft reading my Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy erotica fanfiction, that's shit is between me, not God, and kinky Marvin.
- If files on your hard drive are sold to advertisers, they don't need to bother with uploading screenshots.
- Are you sure I shouldn't just ask Microsoft to pretty please keylog everything I do on any computer ever? I mean that seems reasonable to me that seems like what a reasonable corporation would do. \s
OK but my whole browser history doesn't get sent to Microsoft to be processed by an AI.
- it's on-device
They have thought of it before. Autosaving, backup, restore functions that regularly took snapshots of your drive and saved it just in case some shit happened, etc. This is just another thing they can slap AI on and claim is innovating when it really isn't.
- So is this like that Time Capsule thing that apple used to do (maybe still does)? I think I'm OOTL.
I came across rewind.ai for macos a year ago and have wanted something like this for windows/linux ever since. As long as this is all processed on-device as promised, I'm super excited and it might actually be enough to get me to upgrade from Windows 10 to 11. Except I think it requires an NPU which afaik my ~epic gamer pc~ doesn't have, so maybe in the future.