Windows Recall Not Optional

[DakotaKai_fan20]

That is why I don't trust Microsoft anymore.

 

[Bleipriester]

As far as I can see there is no privacy issue here. Just the rant of an anti-MS militant crackhead on "techradar".
The rant hides the relevant options that make the feature actually a feature, loads of foam cover them.
Remember, it is the rants of people that run around with little computers full of spyware. Google, Apple and thousands of other companies know how far they pissed last Monday in the city. What they purchased, what music they listened to, ect, ect. Everything. They don´t mind, compose the next rant on Microsoft.

Security:
Nobody will see the screenshots, not even Microsoft. They are stored locally, not in a cloud. There is an encryption. You can even delete single screenshots, turn the feature off for given applications and websites. The feature will stop working in the private mode of the common browsers automatically. It will be off by default, you have to turn it on manually. There is even more.

Usage:
Just type something you remember vaguely and the tool will provide you with the full context. Actually useful.

Requirements:
You will need a processor with a NPU built in. Only Copilot+ PCs do have such a CPU currently.

What is Windows Recall? Everything you need to know about Windows 11's new AI feature

Windows 11 is being supercharged with AI designed to enhance productivity and search across the OS.

www.windowscentral.com

 

[Bleipriester]

The Crackhead Liberation Army approaches the Microsoft headquarters as the screenshot tool infringes on Bigfoot´s privacy and enslaves the world.
Meanwhile, antitrust trials are running against Google and Apple. Its taking over the world stuff. Looks like bullshit to me. The point is, however, that this stories cause little attention while identical Microsoft cases draw huge waves of anger. Or see this thread. It is AI utilization without dependence on servers, the only locally working AI tool together with Nvidia´s AI bot. The Anti-Microsoft AI bots yelp!

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[new wave liberal]

Not optional? Is that like not tearing off the mattress tag.

 

[Bleipriester]

New feature Suicidal is not optional, as well.

 

[The Duke]

windows 11 is infested with bugs

And RATs and backdoors, too! Yeah. Anyone that signs up for that gives Gates a colon inspection license.

W10 was really to get in on the data mining that Apple and Google were doing, but W11 is just for Bill's pleasure of

knowing and having access to your everything. If you use it, he can control it.

 

[The Duke]

Be very careful buying one from EBay. There are a couple of companies that are scammers located out of Illinois. They typically have up to 50% of the used Mac listings on EBay. Once they are exposed they rebrand and relist. Currently their offerings appear to be Macbooks but they may branch out into Mac Minis.



For relatively inexpensive used refurbished/renewed Macs
Go with:
Mac of All Trades
Blackmarket.com
Apple Refurbished
Amazon
Best Buy

Personally I recommend going with a M1 chip on a Mac, the M2 chip isn't that much of a bump up and is twice as expensive.

I'd contact a dude in Romania if I wanted one of those. He's neck deep in them all day every day.

 

[Bleipriester]

Microsoft will make the feature uninstallable.

 

[Grumpyolman]

I DGAF as long as they don't start sucking up RAM and CPU duty cycles. Which I can easily see. If they do, shit's getting disabled. Real quick. And they know it. The revenge of the gamers will be brutal.

 

[Bleipriester]

I DGAF as long as they don't start sucking up RAM and CPU duty cycles. Which I can easily see. If they do, shit's getting disabled. Real quick. And they know it. The revenge of the gamers will be brutal.

What gamers? 90 % of them are faulty and tricky, nasty zombies.

 

[Ringel05]

There went hours of research down the drain. Disregard this, see Blei's linked video instead.


As much as I hate to say this Blei is correct, mostly. It appears there was (and still is) a lot of misinformation concerning Recall. Looks like even the supposedly respectable tech news outlets have either fallen for it or helped perpetrate it.
What we actually do know is currently Recall will only be on Copilot+ PCs AND it can be turned off. It will indeed be stored ONLY on the PC and not sent to Microsoft and it will be encrypted. Oh and the vast majority of Windows PCs currently are NOT Copilot+ PCs.
Could this change? Of course it could but that doesn't mean it will.
Right now only PCs with NPUs (Neural Processing Units) that meet Microsoft's required specs are Copilot+ PCs and that is 5 or 6 different computers. A couple of Dells, a HP, a Lenovo and a couple of Surface machines are all that currently have it.

 

[Ringel05]

As far as I can see there is no privacy issue here. Just the rant of an anti-MS militant crackhead on "techradar".
The rant hides the relevant options that make the feature actually a feature, loads of foam cover them.
Remember, it is the rants of people that run around with little computers full of spyware. Google, Apple and thousands of other companies know how far they pissed last Monday in the city. What they purchased, what music they listened to, ect, ect. Everything. They don´t mind, compose the next rant on Microsoft.

Security:
Nobody will see the screenshots, not even Microsoft. They are stored locally, not in a cloud. There is an encryption. You can even delete single screenshots, turn the feature off for given applications and websites. The feature will stop working in the private mode of the common browsers automatically. It will be off by default, you have to turn it on manually. There is even more.

Usage:
Just type something you remember vaguely and the tool will provide you with the full context. Actually useful.

Requirements:
You will need a processor with a NPU built in. Only Copilot+ PCs do have such a CPU currently.

What is Windows Recall? Everything you need to know about Windows 11's new AI feature

Windows 11 is being supercharged with AI designed to enhance productivity and search across the OS.

www.windowscentral.com

Looks like I fell for the hype. Thought Techradar was reputable. My bad.

 

[The Duke]

Looks like I fell for the hype. Thought Techradar was reputable. My bad.

They usually are.

 

[Bleipriester]

Looks like I fell for the hype. Thought Techradar was reputable. My bad.

Actually, I just learned it, it might be even worse. MS made undocumented changes that basically make the Techradar article true and worse.
There is a new video by Chris Titus Tech, who is reported to be reliable. What he says, it is terrible.
Watch it, very scary:

 

[Ringel05]

Actually, I just learned it, it might be even worse. MS made undocumented changes that basically make the Techradar article true and worse.
There is a new video by Chris Titus Tech, who is reported to be reliable. What he says, it is terrible.
Watch it, very scary:

Yeah, I'm familiar with Chris, pretty sure I'd believe him over Microsoft.

 

[Bleipriester]

Yeah, I'm familiar with Chris, pretty sure I'd believe him over Microsoft.

As long as I don´t have something that proves him wrong, I won´t trust MS anymore. If it is just a feature, they don´t need to enforce it and entrench it in the system. And after they promised they would not! We will see if they respond. It is maybe not a company policy like Tesla employees watching their people for fun or Google employees implementing their radical views into their AI software. But the way it happens is secondary. MS must react, quickly.

 

[BackAgain]

I read that my phone also takes my picture every few seconds.

Someone somewhere must be bored silly.

 

[Ringel05]

As long as I don´t have something that proves him wrong, I won´t trust MS anymore. If it is just a feature, they don´t need to enforce it and entrench it in the system. And after they promised they would not! We will see if they respond. It is maybe not a company policy like Tesla employees watching their people for fun or Google employees implementing their radical views into their AI software. But the way it happens is secondary. MS must react, quickly.

Microsoft apparently doesn't always learn from their past mistakes. Cortana was initially interwoven with File Explorer and look at the huge failure that was. Now they seem to be doubling down doing it all over again with Recall. Only Recall appears to be a thousand times worse. I should have stuck with my "I don't trust Microsoft" attitude, they've earned that over and over again.

 

[Ringel05]

Chris Titus Tech followup on the previous video. He can't find that Recall is currently active on his system. He thinks it wasn't left in by accident, that it was positioned in all 24H2 updates for possible activation later. I agree with that assessment.
Also it can be stripped out however is is a dependency in File Explorer and stripping it out sets FE back to the previous version (I think that's what he's saying).

 

[Bleipriester]

Chris Titus Tech followup on the previous video. He can't find that Recall is currently active on his system. He thinks it wasn't left in by accident, that it was positioned in all 24H2 updates for possible activation later. I agree with that assessment.
Also it can be stripped out however is is a dependency in File Explorer and stripping it out sets FE back to the previous version (I think that's what he's saying).

Well, all clear. That´s it for him and his clickbait trash, though.