A few words about the new Microsoft Recall #privacy busting feature. People on Mastodon probably know about it already, but still — WTF? Just store everything in a local database that seems to be insecure even before release? #windows#microsoft#ai
#Windows' upcoming #Recall feature is enabled by default btw in the OOBE setup and CANNOT be disabled directly - you will need to disable it in the Settings app instead, afterwards.
I don't know if you'd trust #Microsoft to actually respect that setting either, wouldn't be the first and only setting on Windows that doesn't actually do anything you'd want it to (or not to) do.
OH and also - Microsoft stores all the Recall data in an #SQLite database in plaintext, so you KNOW it's secure and definitely not easy to steal away from you by anyone that gains physical or remote access to your device <3
If the Microsoft Windows 11 PC (which I am forced to use for client/work) is any proof, every Microsoft AI feature added to the OS is subtracting 15-20% of the productivity from your employees. 🙄
@ai6yr I have a Win 10 Pro machine. When clicking search I kept seeing an offer to try CoPilot, I OFC ignored. Then I found that I could use group policies to disable Copilot. User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot > Turn off Windows Copilot. Machine keeps naggin me to update for free to Win 11 but so far I have resisted. Need to figure out if I do that if I can still disable #Microsoft#Copilot and IF they are going to give me Win 11 Pro not home...
I'm finally caught up on the Microsoft Recall feature coming to Windows 11, and my very first question is who even wants this?
Who has sat there and went "oh yeah, I forgot what I was doing 5 mins ago on my pc and I absolutely cannot spend a few mins thinking about it or pressing the back button to remember" ???
Can anyone point me to a straightforward explainer of what #Microsoft is up to just now with this #Recall thing - in language understandable to the layperson?
Sometimes I wonder if the marketing team at #github is mad that #microsoft stole the copilot branding and took it over. Like imagine being the github sales people after Microsoft keeps saying they're bringing copilot to everyone for free. "No you should keep paying us for our copilot, even though we're owned by Microsoft and they are also selling you copilot. They're different copilots."
Veo gente que depende en exclusiva de software de #Microsoft igual que los artistas que dependen exclusivamente de software de #Adobe y no soy capaz de imaginarme tranquilamente apostando todo a una sola compañía aun sabiendo que esa compañía está dejando de ofrecer un buen servicio y perdiendo la ventaja competitiva frente a otras a nivel de utilidad y accesibilidad.
Para usos puntuales que siguen resultando convenientes es razonable, pero no tener ni la menor curiosidad en aprender de otras...