@alphapuggle thank you, it took me a hot minute but I think I've finally reached the point where reading twitter makes me feel like I'm going insane

@benjiweber I put together an app that lets you enable Recall on existing arm64 Windows installs. The requirements API is worked around by changing the DllPath of the HardwareRequirements WinRT class to a small custom Dll that simply answers "true"
https://github.com/thebookisclosed/AmperageKit

@simonzerafa I don't know man, the instance name sort of sets up some expectations of having a reasonable understanding of things in this area and I'm getting the opposite vibes. What has Microsoft re-enabled so forcefully every Patch Tuesday to warrant that kind of "precaution?" I'm all for being cautious about black boxes (like what social media sites do with your data) but you can reverse engineer Windows to your heart's content so this kind of approach just feels overblown and unnecessary.

@simonzerafa This tinfoil hat attitude is killing me. Just add a group policy if you're so bothered by toggling in Settings and be done. MS isn't stupid and knows it may be an undesired feature for someone to enable in an org so of course GPOs exist too.

@simonzerafa This thing is opt-in and you can easily disable it in Settings
https://mastodon.social/@detective/112513568290859457

@oceane At this moment this feature is disabled by default even if your hardware supports it. When it's active, there's a persistent icon in the tray that won't go away to remind you that it's capturing, with a distinct second state when capture is off. I don't think it's too difficult to press the Pause button when you're about to do something with sensitive data.

@DrewNaylor Yep it does require elevation to access

@DrewNaylor File Explorer always runs unelevated, Administrators also have access to C:\Program Files\WindowsApps yet you simply can't open it in File Explorer without breaking ACLs no matter how you try.