Windows Recall Is Very Creepy...

Microsoft Recall will record your screen and allow you to go back and recall anything from it. The privacy issues with this are pretty big for something that doesn't benefit the majority of people using Windows.
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[@GrubbJunker]

Don't worry guys,, the multi trillion dollar company pinky promised the feature is local and that it's encrypted. Trust them.

[@aussiefan354]

😂😂😂😂

[@black_dragon274]

What you don't understand is that Windows 11 is already the end. With Windows 10 we managed to make it "somewhat" more privacy friendly but we all have to run on Linux. All of us. And we need to open up and get people together to make an open source program for Adobe-level video and photo editing. Doing that plus more compatibility in video games and drivers, Windows will DEFINITELY disappear!

[@GrubbJunker]

@@black_dragon274 If I could get notepad++ and its plugins natively on Linux I'd go back to Mint. =/

[@commentarysheep]

@@black_dragon274 For Adobe-level video editing on Linux, we now have DaVinci Resolve! Not sure about Photoshop, though…

[@imaginativename]

Weird that MS is trying to encourage Linux uptake so hard.

[@JacobLock]

After the announcement I started trying to enumerate the things I can't do on Linux, it's not a long list

[@chuckintexas]

Run my highly technical TRUE *CAD* Design suite . FRUSTRATING , as I'd have switched LONG ago ... .

[@PC4USE1]

Those things are getting less and less every day. For those that won't work on Linux,VM or an old ,non Win 11 machine kept offline.

[@Noodles.FreeUkraine]

@@PC4USE1 Thankfully. Sadly, some of those niche software products use dongles and stuff, so it's not always easy or possible to just set up a VM. But yeah, in general, it's getting better by the day.

[@Mantikal]

@@Noodles.FreeUkraine There is this other thing that some are trying - that you currently can only do if you have a mini tower with a few pci slots free. It's called "GPU pass-though" Basically, a 2nd video card is installed and with a special software, that video card can be used only to power the VM OS - from within Linux. So, you can install all the games and CAD station software on that Windows VM that you want and if you walked into a space where someone has this setup, with the window of the VM completely expanded to full screen, you literally wouldn't be able to tell that what's really running is a VM OS - because of how snappy everything is - especially if your 2nd card is super high powered.

[@user-yg1dg6xm2g]

To address any tasks that can't be done with Linux, you can install Windows in a virtual machine at no additional cost, apart from the cost of Windows itself, and run it that way.

[@bernardthooft8329]

Now a boss can ask an employee to show him on his computer what he did yesterday at...11:30. It's spyware.

[@lc7ineo]

This "feature" only benefits a corporation that WILL sell your data, including your daily actions on "your" operative system to the biggest bidder.

[@courageousmelon5654]

Though I am no fan of data being sent without explicit permission, lots of data can be useful to improve a product. It is not as black and white as you say.

[@astrox809]

They said that the data will stay locally on-device, so they won't sell your data nor will they send the data to their servers in the first place

[@AILEYMUSIC]

if they did they wouldn't just give it to the highest bidder they will repackage and sell it multiple times, capitalism baby! 😂

[@aussiefan354]

Spot on 💯

[@ruben_balea]

@@AILEYMUSIC I came here to say that!

[@MegaLokopo]

You can turn it off just like how you can change your default browser. It is local until OneDrive is turned on automatically with the next update and decides to sync it across all of your devices.

[@OffensiveAtheist]

You had me in the first half. Just like you can't turn off auto updates. Only disable for 35 days

[@SouthFacedWindows]

Copilot will die like Cortana

[@chuckintexas]

Not likiely . _THIS_ has been the *INTENT* all along .

[@CBY404]

I'm waiting for some russian guy to provide tools to remove this feature

[@Dyapchik]

And set a backdoor for major comrade

[@CBY404]

@@Dyapchik HAHAHAHA Nah legit there are some good guys who actually give good stuff, like a few precent who arent just straight injecting malware

[@commentarysheep]

If you’re jumping through all those hoops to get a maybe-private Windows, then at this point, installing something like Linux Mint or Zorin OS is just easier for you. It’s pretty much just online games, Adobe apps and custom work software not written in a portable language like Java don’t work. Linux isn’t a mysterious command prompt OS anymore.

[@CBY404]

@@commentarysheep well i dont need to I own alot of copies from windows all minimalized for efficiency. My windows 10 lite actually used about 1gb of ram while the original one i had used about 3gb

[@commentarysheep]

@@CBY404 But Windows 10 won't be supported for too long... Maybe you should try Live ISOs, dual-booting, virtual machines... Just get a taste before you make the jump to Linux when support for Windows 10 ends.

[@misakianimated]

Just when you thought windows 11 couldn't get any worse

[@Mr.VoidScaper]

Windows 11, Now with free malware!

[@Dyapchik]

Always

[@MarquisDeSang]

Windows has always been a malware and people love that. People who like an OS that actually works and is safe use Linux.

[@user-yg1dg6xm2g]

Windows has had malware for a long, long time.

[@coolerking7427]

Windows 10 will be my last computer. I guess I will use Linux and MACS for my work.

[@ogx-rz4jr]

Every time I see someone crying about MS "spying" they're an iPhone or Android user who have no problems with Apple and Google recording every word they say, face scanning every photo they take, and scanning every document on their phone to upload to iCloud and GoogleDrive. Hypocritical idits pretending to care about privacy, when in reality they're just fanboys hating on their chosen enemy corporation while taking it up the *** from their favored corporation. 1984 already happened 10 years ago on iOS and android. Apple and Android users have already been arrested for photos they took getting misidentified as CP by their AIs. Out of every "person" I've talked to that's flipping out about this ALL of them have been iOS and Android users, zero exceptions. Clown world.

[@MarquisDeSang]

This feature will motivate 2-3% of users to jump on Linux

[@PC4USE1]

Probably and a few more to Chrome OS.

[@MarquisDeSang]

@@PC4USE1 ChromeOS IS Linux

[@Dave102693]

@@PC4USE1and Mac Os

[@commentarysheep]

@@Dave102693 No, MacOS is a completely seperate branch in the family of Unix operating systems. Linux, BSD and MacOS are the three main branches of Unix.

[@commentarysheep]

@@Dave102693 No, MacOS is on a seperate branch in the family of Unix operating systems from Linux.

[@nickdibart]

This is the surveillance of anything you do on your PC, there's no other way to say it.

[@eointhomas2914]

I wonder is there an office in MS where the marketing team are in there celebrating thinking they’ve done a great job selling this crap, I hope nobody puts up with this

[@WarlonWinterheart]

They know that most people won't switch from windows no matter what. The amount of inconvenience people are willing to put up just to avoid the inconvenience of switching an operating system is limitless. Also microsoft will likely again backtrack on this again and do something like make it off by default and then everyone is happy again. MS uses these "shock features" to make it easier to include slightly less evil things in each update.

[@Wizardof]

I will just RECALL how to use Windows 7 while using common sense.

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Microsoft will absolutely abuse this. No doubt at all.

[@ryansmith616]

The reality of our current state of technology is terrifying. And it's here now.

[@FreeOpenSourceLinux]

Best time for Windows users to switch to linux and get their privacy and freedom back.

[@aussiefan354]

Great article mate, thank you for posting. Very informative I agree with you 💯

[@MegaLokopo]

When will vr work on linux?

[@WarlonWinterheart]

It already does! Most of the time... almost... unless you only have few minutes and just want to have a quick game.

[@sonicstarman9663]

Recall should be it's own software that you install rather than coming baked into the computer. But I guess that'd be too pro consumer for Microsoft.

[@wallylasd]

They are not learning anything from our data.

[@tonywise198]

Recall - MSFT just needed something with AI to flog the Arm Windows PCs. Backfired a bit I reckon. I don't know what the C-suite were thinking (or NOT) when they OK'd this rubbish. Luckily I don't use a proprietary OS!

[@Arnie97]

That is so fd up

[@michaelwrest6145]

I don't see the point of this, other than Microsoft wanting to spy, and I don't think the data would only be stored locally. Also there will be a significant performance hit. I had a program called Go Back when I used Windows 98: this made it possible to log hard disk activity and restore old files if you wanted to. There are many backup programs available to protect your data. Why would you want to take screenshots every three seconds?

[@Noodles.FreeUkraine]

Microsoft really is the worst. With this being opt-out instead of being opt-in, they're gonna have a fun ride shipping this in the EU. While those new Snapdragons seemed interesting at first, they can keep their NSA-compliant computers. Vote with your wallet.

[@ogx-rz4jr]

Every time I see someone crying about MS "spying" they're an iPhone or Android user who have no problems with Apple and Google recording every word they say, face scanning every photo they take, and scanning every document on their phone to upload to iCloud and GoogleDrive. Hypocritical idits pretending to care about privacy, when in reality they're just fanboys hating on their chosen enemy corporation while taking it up the *** from their favored corporation. 1984 already happened 10 years ago on iOS and android. Apple and Android users have already been arrested for photos they took getting misidentified as CP by their AIs. Out of every "person" I've talked to that's flipping out about this ALL of them have been iOS and Android users, zero exceptions. Clown world.

[@ML-jk3sz]

This is very similar to Mac OS's Time Machine. The only difference is, Time Machine uses an external drive that you can keep separately. This is a fantastic tool and I have personally used this many times to format new computers AND find a file that I accidentally deleted.

[@ogx-rz4jr]

Every time I see someone crying about MS "spying" they're an iPhone or Android user who have no problems with Apple and Google recording every word they say, face scanning every photo they take, and scanning every document on their phone to upload to iCloud and GoogleDrive. Hypocritical idits pretending to care about privacy, when in reality they're just fanboys hating on their chosen enemy corporation while taking it up the *** from their favored corporation. 1984 already happened 10 years ago on iOS and android. Apple and Android users have already been arrested for photos they took getting misidentified as CP by their AIs. Out of every "person" I've talked to that's flipping out about this ALL of them have been iOS and Android users, zero exceptions. Clown world.

[@gd.ritter]

isn't this just a port of the same idea that exists on xbox?

[@AILEYMUSIC]

hey guys i got a soultion for you , disable it :) (i know they shouldn't do it but this is the world we live in so just don't use it simple... 😆 same with telemetry just block it and disable it and help people do so all we can do)

[@commentarysheep]

But can you trust Microsoft to respect your privacy settings? I think I can’t, and this is why I switched to Linux.

[@AILEYMUSIC]

@@commentarysheep don't need to trust them if you block their servers from being able to connect, learn how TCP/IP firewalls work and how to trace network traffic with something like wireshark) will make updates a pain as you'll have to grab the packages manually but takes like 10 mins to do in a VM or something then you can just offline install them

[@commentarysheep]

@@AILEYMUSIC Yeah, I completely forgot.

[@OffensiveAtheist]

Try disabling updates. Wait a minute, you can't. You don't even get the fing option to disable updates. You only get, "update" and "delay for up to 35 days"

[@Ludak021]

any government that pays m$ for access will also be able to see your history

[@petehboy2]

The past should be left in the past

[@yajsemi671]

What

[@JayPeace-ks9oz]

They wanna be noisy & make a sell.

[@David-zp8rx]

Switch to Linux get a mac, youll thank me later

[@DavidNationSr]

don't buy a new pc

[@ettcha]

I get the concern. Experience with windows telemetry put a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. It also definitely should have been an opt in feature. However, I've found myself in situations where i could describe something i wanted to see again months but not have enough to get back a result on search engines. I'm going through that right now in fact. If i could type in 'modern blue logo on a black background', this feature would be able to show me the website i was thinking of. I think there's reasonable utility in that. I am sure Microsoft has built in a minimum of safeguards robust enough to allay security concerns of their organisational clients. The files and processing are local to the device. The filtering is trash, but the screenshot repository is supposed to be encrypted. They handled this with no finesse, but i think it can be a legit useful feature to the right people.

[@peteragile7488]

But you hit the point. It definitely should've been an opt-in feature. But why isn't it then? IMHO if you create a feature in your programm, where people can see benefits of comfortable use in it, then you should let speak the feature and the pros / cons for itself and the user, if he/she likes it, should just click on a button and enable it for him-/herself... If you kinda need to rush a feature onto the people, then it shows me, which priority MS has... Collecting User Data. And I do not trust MS. I don't trust them, that the snapshots will be only stored locally and encrypted. If you use an Microsoft account on your PC (which I don't use, i use the good old local user account), then I will be sure, that they will link these snapshots to and store them on your MS account and they would potentially let them a backdoor open to analyse the snapshots for data. I mistrust them that much, because I know MS their shady practises for at least 20 years.

[@lydellackerman800]

@@peteragile7488 dont forget the NSA having essentially a slideshow of your entire computer now.

[@courageousmelon5654]

Though I understand the raised eyebrows, if it is a feature that is promoted as only being on the system without any interaction with any MS server, then I do think you should prove that it does have such interaction before calling it a privacy issue. Legality goes both ways, if MS says it is only on the system and it is not, lawsuits are a thing. And yes, of course it should not be on by default if it does send data to MS, but then again, almost every "tech" company has opt in data sending per default. Doesn't excuse it, but this situation also doesn't really excuse anybody being ignorant about it.

[@chuckintexas]

" ... only being on the system without any interaction with any MS server, ... " right up _until_ you start running out of "Room" locally , and THEN for _your _*_"CONVENINECE"_*_ , they will AUTOMATE it being "securely" stored FOR __*_YOUR *SECURITY and CONVEININECE_*_ " in _MS Servers_ on the *MS Cloud* . But its like "secure" or something , with like a PASSWORD , _right_ ? *_Riiight??_* Paid Gates Oligarchy _schill_ maybe ? *ABSOLUTELY* No EXCUSE for not realizing this SIMPLE *TRUTH* _yourself_ . Why do _WE_ have to *continuously* call OUT people like you who _seemingly_ *_NEVER_* actually GET this stuff??

[@Noodles.FreeUkraine]

Sorry, but Microsoft has a certain track record when it comes to these things. Excuse me for assuming that a serial killer found with a smoking gun in his hand in front of a dead body bleeding from 12 holes might just be at it again, but sometimes life really is that simple.

[@courageousmelon5654]

@@Noodles.FreeUkraine That's a fair argument.

[@otockian]

lol you literally sound like the old people when the internet came out...just saying

[@OffensiveAtheist]

You have no idea what the F* you're talking about

[@Wizardof]

I will just *RECALL* how to use Windows 7 while using common sense.