this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2024
798 points (98.9% liked)

Technology

59568 readers
4064 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

If you thought that Microsoft was done with Recall after its catastrophic reveal as the main feature of Copilot+ PCs, you are mistaken.

Microsoft wants to bring it back this October 2024. Good news is that the company plans to introduce it in test builds of the Windows 11 operating system in October. In other words: do not expect the feature to hit stable Windows 11 PCs before 2025 at the earliest.

While Recall may have sounded great on paper and on work-related PCs, users and experts alike expressed concern. Users expressed fears that malware could steal Recall data to know exactly what they did in the past couple of months.

Others did not trust Microsoft to keep the data secure. We suggested to make Recall opt-in, instead of opt-out, to make sure that users knew what they were getting into when enabling it.

Microsoft pulled the Recall feature shortly after its announcement and published information about its future in June. There, Microsoft said that it would make Recall opt-in by default. It also wanted to improve security by enrolling in Windows Hello and other features.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ulkesh@lemmy.world 77 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They never said they were doing away with it. It's a feature literally no one asked for, it's insecure, it's invasive, a privacy nightmare any way you look at it.

And people who willingly use it will deserve all the shit that it is. And meanwhile, I'll be enjoying my privacy-respecting Linux operating system.

[–] PhreakyByNature 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I am keeping Win 10 until I can't safely anymore then Linux may be my next stop. Been looking at CachyOS for gaming.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago

IDK why they want to but to me the name seems pretty catchy

[–] Defaced@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I also would love to know why cachy

[–] PhreakyByNature 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just some performance I've seen people get from it and the nvidia bits. Still need to research before I decide though.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Thing with cachy is that it doesnt do anything better than other distros when it comes to nvidia drivers, its entire focus is giving you like maybe 5% better performance at the cost of worse stability, so i really would not recommend it to new users.

I'd say use something like bazzite or pop_os! instead.

Feel free to dm me if you want help.

[–] PhreakyByNature 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks! My cousin used pop and was a fan tbf. I do like stability but also hoping, as I don't work on my personal PC, that some instability would revitalise my enjoyment of tinkering. I have become used to the comforts of stability as I've aged. Haven't really played with Linux since the Red Hat 7 days..! I used to use Unix back then for FORTRAN but yeah of late just forgotten everything.

[–] Waffelson@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How does using avx instructions reduce stability?

source? or did you mean arch is unstable?

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, i just meant that all the changes cachy does (on top of being arch based) means it just isnt as stable as some other options

[–] Waffelson@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In this case, PopOS and Bazzite are also less stable because they add things on top of Ubuntu and Fedora

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

the main thing is that its arch-based

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I'm guessing maybe the scheduler? Its the only real difference I see versus the other gaming distros.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

https://cachyos.org/

Never heard about it. Couldn't find what makes it different from the others.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

its whole deal is that they try and squeeze every ounce of performance out for gaming

[–] ulkesh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My gaming Linux of choice right now is Garuda.

[–] PhreakyByNature 2 points 3 months ago

It's another contender for sure.

[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

M$ is like a boyfriend - you tell him "No, don't touch me there!"

and an hour later his hands are wandering the same direction again..

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

An abusive boyfriend perhaps and you should definitely leave that relationship