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"But most significantly, Microsoft has made Recall a feature you must opt in to using rather than opt out of using, and it's possible to remove it completely."
Important bit
only until they find out most people never enable it. Then it will be forced on
"Whoopsie, we turned it on for everyone by accident after an update! We made a fucky wucky!"
For now, anyway. Let's hope it stays that way.
Good! In my opinion this entirely changes the feature to acceptable.
This is a huge opportunity. All of us Linux geeks now need to be on mainstream social media platforms and actively seek out and help everyone who expresses an interest in switching from Windows to Linux.
Let me save you the trip. I have an old trash spec hp all in one that's had the bag beat out of it, what is the best lightweight Linux distro to make this a usable web browsing and PDF file viewer? (To be used in my garage to look at FSM, wiring diagrams, play music, Google crap etc nothing demanding). I've tried mint and it works ok but thinking lighter weight ?
I installed MX Linux on an old tablet/ laptop with 2GB RAM AND 30GB storage. Works very well except for the webcam, but that's because the hardware is made so that only windows can use it correctly.
Damn Small Linux is very lightweight and comes with browser and PDF viewer preloaded. It doesn't have a GUI software installer though, so you will have to use the terminal if you need to install stuff.
FSM
Finite-state machine?
Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Forgetting Sarah Marshall?
Its female siamese midgets, how can you not know this?
It's a pretty bold move to advertise the inclusion of a key logger in your OS.
Not just keylogger. It's a screenlogger too.
Ardamax Keylogger takes screenshots too, should they change the name?
Youd already be using Linux Mint or Ubuntu if you cared about not being data mined.
I've been Linux only since 2016, after a decade of "trying " to move over. I do still have a partition for the increasingly rare event that I need something MS, which so far has been one class in my University that required a lockdown browser for a test.
Have to admit, the name "Recall" does have a better ring to it than "Take a Screenshot Every 3 Seconds".
I guess that means I have to break out the old GOATSE wall paper.
Welp... Linux it is, then
How long until Microsoft gets accused of stealing classified info?
Last time they thought about rolling it out, security researchers immediately found ways to do clear text exfiltration of user data.
This should be terrifying for anybody who is at all concerned about opsec for anything at all.
Corporate /LTS editions don't have this crap. MS only rapes the peasantry
I’m sure most corporations have agreements that prevent M$ from using this. Or M$ has to host all of its data gathering on azure government.
We live in weird age, where using Windows is becoming harder than Linux (even though it has its own issues).
I always “Recall” how shitty windows is, whenever I see the word mentioned.
if you don't know how, ask, Lemmy is covered in Linux users
I ran linux mint for a couple months. It was nice. Very few problems.
Unfortunately, when I tried to install it on this newer desktop it was a shit-show. No wifi or ethernet, no hdmi, it crashed when I tried to play elden ring. I should try another distribution, but I was so distressed after two days I just rolled back. The people in the mint discord were helpful, though, and got some of the problems fixed.
Windows sucks though.
