PurpleJillybeans May 21, 2024

OK #Linux community, listen up.

MS have done it again and people are looking for a way out.

DON'T TREAT NEWBIES LIKE SHIT.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR ASKING QUESTIONS.

DON'T ATTACK PEOPLE FOR HAVING PROBLEMS.

DON'T TELL PEOPLE TO "GOOGLE IT" WHEN THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY KNOW WHAT TO SEARCH FOR, OR HOW TO INTERPRET THE RESULTS THEY'D FIND.

DON'T BE A DICK.

Show threadZaphodOfTexasMay 21, 2024
@PurpleJillybeans I don't pay much attention to the Windows world. Could I get a tl;dr on what happened there?
Show threadPurpleJillybeans May 21, 2024
@ZaphodOfTexas https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Recall uses AI features “to take images of your active screen every few seconds.”…

Ars Technica
Show threadSax Brightwell 🇨🇦

@PurpleJillybeans @ZaphodOfTexas > "As you might imagine, all this snapshot recording comes at a hardware penalty. To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU). There are also minimum storage requirements for running Recall, with a minimum of 256GB of hard drive space and 50GB of available space."

Sounds like it can't exactly be gently slipped under the hood -

May 22, 2024 at 1:03amWeb
Show threadSax Brightwell 🇨🇦May 22, 2024
@PurpleJillybeans @ZaphodOfTexas - but no doubt it will eventually be the windows 10 situation where you end up paying $10 trillion per month for security updates (or bending-and-spreading for a virus colonic, I guess).
Show threadZaphodOfTexasMay 22, 2024
@saxbrightwell @PurpleJillybeans Yeah, I noticed that. *Nobody* has a 40 TOPS NPU right now. Even the Apple M4 only pulls 38 TOPS. Maybe the Snapdragon X will do the trick, but we haven’t actually gotten our hands on those yet.