Doesn’t surprise me one iota. This is why I will be abandoning Windows next year and moving to Linux and doing the same for my parents.
Why wait? Hell, you can test out a live distro in a virtual machine to start learning about it right now before taking the big leap. Unless you’re already familiar with Linux anyways. 🐧
Indeed I am. I already have a dual-boot setup on my laptop (not yet on my desktop) but need to finish testing Linux alternatives and/or running under WINE for some of my Windows-only software. I’ve been slowly chipping away at that over the past few months and expect to continue to do so over the next few as well, after which I hope to be ready to completely switch over.
I’ve been trying to buy a new computer for years. I finally put the remaining pieces on my Christmas list lol.
Good news, Linux works well on old computers, and in many cases, you can just move the boot drive to the new hardware and you’re good.
Same boat! I’ve switched over two of my lesser used devices to Mint already (an old surface tablet and my work laptop), only hesitation is with my gaming machine. Everything has been set up just how I like it so I’m not eager to start from scratch there but once I’m confident and comfortable on my work laptop I’ll make the switch there too
While dual booting into Pop, I can see my Windows SSD and all of its contents. It might make testing a little easier for you!
Running games from the NTFS partition won’t work very well/at all, you’ll want to redownload those to a Linux filesystem.
Im always astounded at how tech companies swing between ‘for your convenience’ and ‘for your security/ privacy’, and how often users just take them at their word, then wonder why the noose on the neck of their personal choices and freedoms keep getting tighter and tighter.
Recall remains a phenomenally bad idea. I don’t understand why anyone would green light it.
It sounds like a great idea if you don’t think too long about it and none else has it yet. People like that don’t care about security or privacy concerns, as long as there is no law against it. Gotta earn money and the competition is fierce.
And with “people” I mean executives just as much as engineers. Gotta earn money fast > being ethically aware of the implications of your work
I guess. I mean I immediately thought “I don’t want it capturing the porn I look at”, but maybe people really don’t think about privacy at all.
I don’t really see how it makes money, since it’s bundled into windows (right?).
It makes money the same way anything like this makes money: selling your data. Maybe it improves ad revenue by giving more relevant ads, or maybe they’ll just outright sell your info.
That said, porn is the least of your worries here, I’m thinking it might scrape sensitive info like social security numbers, bank logins, etc, and an attacker then scrapes Recall to get all of it and now you’re screwed.
The Windows 11 migration is mandatory, and there is no lube. They’ll gradually lower the tech requirements as it approaches to minimize people looking for alternatives.
But make no mistake, Microsoft is asserting the leverage of its market share for full enshittification. Linux or Mac or eat the shit they’re giving you.
They’re gonna do the most to get people to use Windows 11, but they really dropped the ball with the ads, surveillance, and how shitty it’s become the past few years.
Oh look! Microsoft is doing the thing they assured us they wouldn’t do! What a fucking shocker! What is it, the tenth time this year?
