In the entire history of computing, there has never been a more important time to teach people about #Linux than right now.
(And never a worse time for me not to be doing @Linux4Everyone -- so I hope my fellow YouTube and content creators will double down and show people the light!)
Struggling a bit with the disgusting news about #windows and the #Recall software. I am considering switching to @vanillaos, but it feels like a risk for some reason... Is it worth the trouble of switching?
I am amused. One the one hand, Microsoft is introducing Recall, which literally takes screenshots of everything you do on windows, but on the other hand, they are taking users ability to take screenshots of their browser away if their company configures it as such.
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This tiny PC is now packing the most powerful laptop chip AMD makes!
Funnily enough, Microsoft threw AMD and Intel under the bus.
NONE of the current selling "AI" PCs qualify for the "CoPilot" branding.
Who knows, maybe you don't want that new Microsoft Recall feature on your system anyway?
If anyone's switching over to Linux and needs help let me know, I know Several Things™ about it
(Mostly Arch and derivatives but a little bit of other distros too) #windows#recall#linux
The online backlash to #Windows#Recall amuses me tremendously. I started building a similar open-source (non-AI, local only) thing for #Linux a month ago.
It would take screenshots and create a timeline video of your day. It also enabled searching across your past usage of the computer.
The inspiration was an open-source macOS app called "Rem" which does the same thing.
Ah well, I guess I'll abandon that then, as it's going to be seen as toxic thanks to #Microsoft.
Ultimately, when I do purchase a Mac Mini, I have a safety net for being able to experiment with #Linux freely. It's easier to experiment when failure doesn't cause any significant issues in one's life. General anxiety is a struggle of mine, so doing sensible things to mitigate the intensity of anxiety helps me take chances I wouldn't risk ordinarily. The #Windows PC can become my Linux experiment, I can follow the documentation about Linux to increase my comfort levels with Linux.
“Questo potrebbe essere un incubo per la privacy”, ha commentato alla Bbc il dottor Kris Shrishak, consulente in materia di intelligenza artificiale e privacy. “Il semplice fatto che vengano catturati degli screenshot durante l’uso del dispositivo potrebbe avere un effetto agghiacciante sulle persone.”
Folks who might be looking to move from Windows to Linux: another option, if it’s financially feasible for you and you don’t want to mess with installing Linux, is to sell your Windows machine and buy a Linux one.
I really enjoy the fact that my IT department reboots my laptop overnight on a regular basis, combined with the fact that it takes about ten minutes for my laptop to stop going crazy when I log in. It makes for so much productivity when I sit down at my desk in the morning, energized to start work!
(Yes, this is #Windows, of course, and yes, there's performance-intensive security software running in the background that makes launching apps excruciatingly slow and compute-intensive.) #IT#Trellix
Der riesige Unterschiede zwischen #Linux und #Windows ist auch:
Wenn irgendeine Distribution auf die gleiche, völlig bescheuerte Idee käme, wie #Microsoft alles zwingend an online-Accounts und AI-Krampf und sogar automatisierte Screenshots zu tackern, könnte man einfach die Distribution wechseln oder auf einen Fork warten, der vermutlich innerhalb kürzester Zeit entstehen würde und den Murks nicht an Bord hätte. Auditierbar.
Bei Microsoft ist man auf Gedeih und Verderb dem Konzern ausgeliefert.
The #Windows11 era:
We decided to ruin our image and any reputation we had as an industry standard operating system in the name of innovating with #AI and "changing the way you compute" (or something like that) #Windows#Microsoft#copilot#recall
@evacide that feature has abuse written all over it. WTF.
They already had some sort of history feature in Win 10. Scared the crap out of me when I ran into it.
I guess it's one more thing to switch off on a Windows box.
It's starting to become a long list...