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Windows Recall is secretly installed and enabled on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) (www.youtube.com)

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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 33 points 1 day ago

So wait, did I miss a step or is this NOT the recall feature they announced for Copilot Plus PCs? None of the screen snapshots, none of the AI search.

As far as I can tell it's some variation on the logging search that was in Windows in Win8, right? At least when it comes to user-facing functionality.

EDIT: As far as I can tell, people mentioning this mean the full Recall feature, but even though the package shows up on my Copilot+ PC the functionality itself is nowhere to be seen. I'm still confused about this and relatively convinced something is being missed somewhere.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 17 points 1 day ago

I've found it very interesting. So far as I can tell it's installed and enabled (even on non co-pilot PCs). However I have yet to see or hear of anyone that has found evidence that it is actually running and doing its job (capturing screenshots and creating the database for the AI model).

To me, the fact it's installed and enabled and they've not stood up by now and said "Ooops our bad, it was only meant to be on copilot PCs and we should have added it to the features menu so you can turn it off" just suggests that, the stuff is there and at some point they will flip a switch on ALL PCs to enable it.

It's quite lucky that a week or so ago when I got some new SSDs, I put aside 2TB for a linux boot to replace my old broken previous linux dual boot. Not booted into windows in over a week.

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[-] Coldgoron@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Saw this bullshit coming, already got a linux mint dual boot setup on my work pc.

PSA: If you have a bigger usb formatted to the ntfs file system, consider switching it to exfat file system when working with linux. I had a hard freeze up and couldn’t get my files off for a bit, and this what I suspect was the issue.

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[-] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 28 points 1 day ago

Wait! The only selling point of those "AI" PCs runs on non "AI" pcs?

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[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 22 points 1 day ago

Switching to linux few years back is really fucking printing...

I was spending so much time cleaning up windows and then microshit would roll my settings back🤡

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's me. Never even made it to W11 but the fact that I had no autonomy over "my" computer really fucking irritated me.

[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

For FUCK sakes....

I have a 256GB SATA SSD machine here, that I want to put a fresh install of windows on a 1TB M.2

And NOW is the fucking time windows puts out this fucking Win11 24H2 garbage... that's BSOD'ing peoples computers, having other issues, and now this.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Microsoft has definitely not been a great tenant on dual boot systems over the past year. Usually you get the occasional MBR overwrite, but it’s been pretty bad. Windows has been assuming it’s the only OS.

[-] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I fixed a windows install for an old guy, and windows patched the BIOS to prevent F11 loading the boot menu....

Never again

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

That seems extremely unlikely. That is controlled by the BIOS itself. Windows Update does deliver BIOS updates, but only as provided by the OEM.

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[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I made this prediction before kind of joking, but I feel like it could still end up this way, where in the near future we’ll all be installing a FOSS AI after a fresh install whose sole job is to target the corpo AI’s on our local machines and continuously cripple them.

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago

The guys using FOSS Ai would be the same guys using an operating system without an hostile Ai built in.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

This is why win10 in a vm

[-] Random123@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Does win10 vm run games well? (like power hungry games)

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 1 day ago

I don’t recommend going that direction. I think you’ll get better results with Proton and Proton-based solutions like Lutris and family.

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 9 points 1 day ago

With GPU passthrough you can get almost native performance. This requires 2 GPUs though (iGPU as second one should suffice), dunno about the input lag and stability though as I only have one GPU

Without it though? Not even worth trying

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[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Proton is a better option unless the game needs Anti-Cheat, which most won't work in a VM, anyway

Personally I dual boot Win10 LTSC with fake credentials and some privacy tweaks for games that need to be on windows

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