I need an AI vibrator sounding mouse with blue tooth!
Buddy! How are you moving the mouse so fast??? Your hands aren’t even moving! Anyway are you coming to the meeting?
I just came at the…to the meeting yes ofcourse. I’ll be right there!
I’ve still yet to see a decent generalized use case for AI, it just feels like an extremely complicated and energy intensive solution desperately looking for a problem to justify it’s existence.
Sounds super familiar to another type of technology
Good. Let it fucking die.
Remember kids, Recall can’t come into your house if you don’t explicitly install Windows.
It’s like vampires with invitations, zombies with brain-salads, or werewolves if you show them your butt.
It W10 for gaming and Linux for everything else at this point.
My Steam Deck convinced me to try Linux (Debian) a try for desktop gaming. So long as you install the latest GPU drivers, it’s smooth as butter. I guess what I’m saying is Linux for everything at this point… for those capable of installing drivers from the CLI.
I fought with Ubuntu for a weekend trying to get it to run my game library. I failed.
I will give it a swing again when steam stops W10 support.
Protondb is your friend. I haven’t actually been there in months though as everything I’ve played recently has just worked without issue.
I couldn’t get anything Debian based to install correctly. I ended up using Garuda, dragonized edition. It took less setup than a fresh windows install.
That’s what I’m on too. It’s Arch based, which may scare some people because of the reputation, but it’s so easy. It comes with tools to install any packages you may need for gaming or other applications. It also comes setup with the AUR so you can “easily” (you have to use the terminal for this, but it’s not hard) install packages from there.
For gaming Garuda dragonized is probably the best way to go. I hate the “gamer” aesthetic, but that’s easy to change.
Try Linux for gaming now. It’s incredibly good. Most games run on par with Windows, with a few actually running better on Linux. There’s only a handful of games that don’t run on Linux, and that’s games with DRM or anti-cheat that has chosen to not support it. I think I’ve even heard that Valorant, with its kernel level AC can (with some difficulty) run Linux, but I’d probably just say to avoid it if you don’t mind.
I’m convinced they’re already collecting data for it. I can’t think of any other reason for the massive drop in system performance on Windows 11.
There’s no hurry - we don’t want it.
They’ll rush it anyway.
Sorry your private data got shared out. Bug’s fixed now but everyone knows about your bizarre top hat fetish.
Wait… How did YOU know about my bizarre top hat fetish?
this is the part I can’t understand. no one wants this. if you understand what this is doing, you wouldn’t want it. holy shit why
They don’t care if we want it. They want the info it’ll give them. This isn’t for us, it’s for them.
It’s important to get this right, or they might have to…recall it.
Good. Fuck microshit
I don’t see why everyone hates this. It’s disabled by default and you don’t have to use it. I use Linux but thank god someone’s actually trying to make operating systems interesting again, nobody else has done anything interesting in years.
I think it’s a combination of the security risk and a slippery-slope argument. The security risk is that, at the very least, it opens up an avenue for hackers to more easily extract personal information from your PC. The slippery-slope argument is that Microsoft can just choose to enable this feature, or parts of it, without your consent. It used to be that you could turn of all telemetry in Windows (XP/Vista I believe), but now you can’t do that for 10.
Your idea of making “operating systems interesting” is to screenshot and spy on a users activity in the odd event that they want to go back and have a photographic memory of it? You and I have VASTLY different ideas of what “interesting” means.
- It’s incentivized by monies
(ie for private data collecting), - it won’t be optional for much longer
(error: explorer.exe needs Recall to work, please enable recall & try again after the data has been synced to MS servers), and - you won’t be able to turn it off, that is when it will deliver you mostly (recalled) ads you might have missed from a few days ago when it showed them to you the first time.
“Please click on at least 3 targeted ads to continue to use calc.exe.”
- It’s incentivized by monies
I’d much rather Microsoft work on improving windows than adding features that I don’t need or want.
I want an interesting operating system as much as I want to live next to an interesting nuclear powerplant.
Operating systems should be boring, they should just handle basic tasks and support whatever program I am running on top of them.
Calling Recall interesting just makes me want it less, it is one more huge vector of personal information that can and will be mined or breached and then mined.
s disabled by default
And how long do you think that will last? They only changed it to opt-in after millions of enterprise IT cybersec directors screeched in agony. And with all of these monopolies, getting a backpedal concessionis only hitting a temporary pause button for them to wait two years and try again.
“You don’t have to use it” has never worked as a defense against Microsoft ever, Recall exists as the greatest possible privacy violation and should not even be a legal feature.
Enable recall : ⬜later ⬜yes
That’s how they will gain adoption. They will gain it through fatigue and apathy.
It was the straw that broke the camels back to get me to switch to Linux.
But an operating system isn’t meant to be “interesting”. It’s an operating system. It should only be meant to operate the system. The interesting should be up to whatever programs it is that a user puts on top of it, something that makes it work better (like optimisations), or at most, make it look nicer. Recall is not that. Your car should be functional as a car. It doesn’t need to be capable of baking souffles, or be a fully-functional mobile office suite. An OS should follow the same principles.
An OS really shouldn’t be “interesting” it should be boring, just work and be secure.
This was their stance 2 months ago:
I don’t think that would have changed if not for the backlash Microsoft has received for it.
Now, supposedly it’s optional and off by default, but that could change again anytime…
By anytime, it’ll be hidden in a hot fix 6 to 12 months from now.
Some more reading, for those following along:
you don’t have to use it.
On windows, “its optional” means somthing diffrent than on linux.
On linux a feature like this is just a command or a toggle switch in the settings.
Its admittedly a neat concept, I use OBS for this verry reason, to capture moments where I didnt think to press “record” beforehand. An (unprivlaged, no internet access) userland foreground app with “start/stop/delete past hour” buttons. All from the easy to understand from a glance taskbar icon.
Sadly, we only got a few of these safety features later on because like software, people will also refuse to buy a car without seatbelts or working breaks.
People are saying “no!” now so they dont have to say no later when its much harder to say no (when its in your home, on your pc). Microsoft plugs their ears when their customers say “it’s unsafe” and “no means no” because they want you to partake in this transaction with them reguardless of if you do.
I could see this as an interesting lab concept. That possibly users could install from some kind of site if they really wanted it. Not as a mainstream function pushed to evry system. Even if it’s inactive by default for now.
It will be likely installed even if disabled, so your eventual malware attacker can enable it and live off the land instead of installing a key/screen that your antivirus might catch.
They disabled it by default after shipping it as a security nightmare in preview builds.
You can’t add security after the fact. If it isn’t planned out with security as a primary design goal months before you write a line of code, it will never be secure.
