So one of the biggest businesses in the world that serves by far the most consumers in the non-smartphone computing department does something incredibly harmful and it seems like the main thing Linux users are picking up from this is "oh neat what a great new recruiting tool!"
Idk man. That feels a bit gross
People who
1. Know about Recall and the threat it poses
2. Are competent enough to simply switch their whole ass operating system
3. Are going to be in your sights as someone recruiting people to Linux
are almost certainly not in the group of people who will be be victimized by this new Recall feature anyway
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After I saw the threads about it I had to go back and find what's the marketing angle, and ... okay, I can see that being useful... in some very limited scope.. maybe.
But it's too broad. Too blanket-everything. It should be granular, opt-in thing, not "big brother is enabled by default".
Their user-facing documentation seems mostly concerned about how you can limit the amount of disk space used.
@sol_hsa @eniko it doesn't even do the one thing people might really want which is saving the actual documents over time. TimeMachine has a useful purpose.
This won't even guarantee it catches what you want, since it's just random snapshots of a screen. Literal gambling it *might* catch what you find useful later. Not the documents, not any useful data.
And space wise, it's going to be a low resolution copy of something, not the original hi Rez version.
But passwords and other useful (to hackers) info, nicely stored.
@eniko yes but they are often paying Microsoft hundreds a year and have input into colossal budgets paid to Microsoft. I also do education on tech assisted IPV (detecting and managing it, not how to do it).
The cumulative antifeatures are moving the 'rusted on' Windows nerds to Linux. This will hurt Microsoft's marketshare and mindshare in the long term.
@cybervegan @eniko taking timed screenshots of a computer is ancient security functionality.
This is just dusting off corporate surveillance of employees for everyone else and calling it a 'feature'
@eniko I think it's also about breaking the market dominance of Microsoft.
They can only get away with this bullshit because they are the de-facto monopolist in the non-mobile operating-system market and don't need to care about their customers.
That's why I would expect that If more people who can switch away from Windows did exactly that, it would indirectly help those who can't switch, due to market pressure.
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