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(!)
this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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It won't on... wait for it... Linux!
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.
It might not be long if the idea works. We already have good local LLMs.
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
Now introducing Microsoft dildonics. We will tell you when to put it in your holes.
For somebody who's last windows experience was windows 7: what did they come up now again?
I don't expect MS will give you the choice. Not as far as the whole spying on you part is concerned, at least.
I predict GNUL desktop at 5%
I'll use it at work because I don't give a fuck about that machine but not for my personal machine.
Say the L word instead