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A comic

Windows OS: “We have a brand new feature called Windows Recall that you might like!”

Guy: “Oh boy! What does it do?”

Windows: “It helps you find anything you’ve seen on your PC by using clues you give or by letting you scroll through your past activity!”

Guy: “Wow! How does this tech work?”

Windows: “Our Windows AI constantly takes pictures of your screen and saves all that data”

  • @[email protected]
    21•1 month ago

    I thought that feature was related to the expensive for pay Copilot feature? The recall feature listed a huge amount of space required for it to work, something like 275 GB, SSD. There is no way that’ll just be a baked in feature in normal home Windows. Am I wrong Lemmy? To be clear, that feature can F right off.

    • LunaOPEnglish
      18•1 month ago

      Yeah it won’t be in regular PCs anytime soon, since this feature apparently requires

      1. 256 GB of SSD
      2. 16 GB of RAM
      3. An “NPU” which AFAIK most computers don’t have
      4. Windows 11

      But the point is that they market Recall as this great new premium feature when it’s actually very dystopic. Even if you trust Microsoft that it’s gonna be entirely local (which I don’t), there are lots of other things that could go wrong. Like Recall having your passwords/private conversations/stuff under NDAs in it’s database, bugs that could potentially leak the data, malware whose purpose is to exploit it to get access to everything you do on your computer, or a government forcing Microsoft to add a backdoor edit: damn I’ve read this like 10 times before replying and just realized that you did say that the Recall feature sucks

        • Programmer BelchEnglish
          5•1 month ago

          If it is for just taking images of your screen a cron job or systemd timer can do the trick taking a screenshot twice an hour.

          • LunaOPEnglish
            4•1 month ago

            I’m pretty sure the requirements are so high because (at least for now) the AI that will process the screenshots and search queries will run locally

            • Programmer BelchEnglish
              3•1 month ago

              I just dont really see use for this, you could have a historic record of opened programs (filtering system programs) and for the work you are doing in them, the timed screenshot option.

              As with everything Microsoft, it’s just an exvuse to cram their New ProductTM