Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 hours ago

    If I want to save something I’ll back it up myself. My attitude toward an OS remembering what I do: “We don’t know each other and I was never here.”

  • frostprophet@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    10 hours ago

    Although not the exact topic covered in the article, as you wouldn’t necessarily be sending sensitive information like that to other people, but it’s important to note that this means nothing you’ve sent before is safe.

    It’s not enough that from “now on” you don’t send anything you wouldn’t want Recall to capture, if you’ve already sent it and someone with Recall captures it then it’s compromised. It’s not just your own device that you need to worry about, it’s also everyone you might contact or have ever contacted.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      4 hours ago

      You don’t need SteamOS. It’s likely not going to solve any problems for you that aren’t solved elsewhere. It’ll be good for console-like devices, but just use a normal desktop distro for a desktop computer.

      I like Garuda Dragonized for gaming. It comes set up with a lot of gaming stuff already, and makes it easy to install a bunch of other gaming related packages you may want.

      Theres no need to wait for Valve. The problem is solved already.

      • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        3 hours ago

        eh? I tried gaming with lutris fairly recently and I’d call it far from solved.

        it’s in a better spot than a decade ago

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          What went wrong? I’ve had essentially no issues lately. I know there’s a handful of games with anti-cheats or DRMs that break (mostly out of China), but it’s pretty minor. Modding is also a bit of a pain and has to be done manually for now, but Nexus is working on a new mod manager that should work for all platforms eventually.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      15 hours ago

      Im excited to live in that world.

      Any game that relies on BS DRM like Denuvo that refuses to work for SteamOS can die in a fire.

      Most of the are shitty multiplayer games anyways.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        71·
        16 hours ago

        Most of the distros run steam great out of the box. Our biggest problem is video card updates breaking crap. Linux Tech Tips scared a bunch of people off by not reading a warning message on an update then refusing to seek any help when something broke.

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    108·
    2 days ago

    Man the first hackers to get their hands on that data are gonna get rich. Blackmail material, personal details, banking information, passwords, everything you could want.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      It’s like those sextortion scam emails that say “we took pictures of you masturbating” except this time they’ll really extract some poor guy’s porn habits from their Recall database lmao

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    59·
    2 days ago

    Every year I’m happier and happier that I touch MS products only when paid to do so.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I only need access to a terminal for my job, i would be so happy if i could run linux on my work laptop.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      problems with their shit has been paying the bills here for over twenty-five years now.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      101·
      2 days ago

      How happy are you to know your personal data is still going to be leaked because 90% of the services handling it are using MS Backdoor OS? If it’s not going to be your bank it will be your work, if not your work, then it will be your government, and there will be no consequences because “nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft®”™.

    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Same my only experience with windows (and w11) is at work (exception being my vr flight sim pc).

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    37·
    2 days ago

    This this more of a byproduct of the design than anything.

    Its almost like this was a bad idea to begin with.

    • stevediceEnglish
      291·
      2 days ago
      DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:Recall

      Run that from an administrator terminal (right click start menu and select Terminal (Administrator)). You can also do it from Settings > Privacy > Recall.

      Those are the Microsoft-approved ways. If you don’t trust them, you can also just download a new iso and completely rip it off before install using something like ChrisTitus’ microWin.