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Is ASAP Linux a variant of Asahi that I’m not hip enough to get?

Slap it into a VM. Name it jail. Call it Windows with bars.

How’s that working for you? I’ve got a surface, and I like it, but I know that Windows is not exactly an efficient piece of software.

Well, that someone nefarious who gets access can then only steal from that point on. Recall will allow him to find out you were having a wank last Tuesday at 7PM.

…if someone nefarious gets to the point they can read this stuff then they’ll already be able to record your screen, log keystrokes, etc.

No screenshots -> less data. Less data -> lower breach severity.

(Unless you have an unusual threat model)

if someone nefarious gets to the point they can read this stuff then they’ll already be able to record your screen, log keystrokes, etc.

The point is, that with Recall, they can do this back in time. A regular keylogger can only see what you do after he was installed. If you realize that your computer was compromised fast enough, then you can react. With Recall, everything you did in the last months is open to the attacker.

It requires opt-in,

Because GDPR requires it to be so. Ask people overseas if they can turn that feature off.

With the current government they have in the US, is this really something that the anybody should be comfortable having?

Also, nothing is stopping malware from turning it on without your consent, because the technology will be backed in into the OS by default.

and if someone nefarious gets to the point they can read this stuff then they’ll already be able to record your screen, log keystrokes, etc

So we should just ignore that Microsoft just created a new attack vector that nobody asked for?

I expect it won’t be straightforward to view the data as well, it’s not just gonna be a folder full of jpegs.

Source?

I’m glad that people are actually trying to make interesting features still.

What’s interesting about this? Not only are you training AI models using your data without getting paid for it, I don’t understand what use case you can have by asking Microsoft what porn you were watching at 2 am of February 19th. For important stuff that needs remembering, you can just go back to your browser history. Its easier to search there than to remember the specific time you were doing something anyway.

Literally, nobody wants this.

OSs have been so boring years now, it’s good to see people actually trying to introduce standout features even if they are controversial. More of this I say.

Okay so this is that mindset that seems to permeate the Tech industry through and through, these days. The idea that things that are working fine, need to be forcefully “improved” even when it’s not necessary.

A pen can’t just be a pen anymore, it needs to connect to the cloud so that the ink levels can be properly measured and new ink sent to you on a subscription basis to make sure you never run out of ink.

A juicer needs its own proprietary juice bags and it won’t work with different ones, and how does it know you’re not using the brand’s originals? Why, it must be connected to the internet of course, otherwise it won’t juice.

Your car can’t just be a car anymore, it needs to have integrated mics and an internet connection so that the manufacturer can listen to all your calls and ear your sex sounds, and then sell that to advertisers who will know whether they should sell you a MagicWand or fisting lube, based on whether the moaning sounds they heard coming out of your car sound masculine or feminine.

So on and so forth.

You might think your take is unique, but it really isn’t. It aligns perfectly with everything that companies want nowadays, which is to get your data at all costs.

For me, I want none of that shit. To the point that I go out of my way to make sure I only buy stuff that doesn’t connect to the internet.

Which, BTW, this is the privacy community, I thought there was a common understanding of how abusing these features are, but I guess not.

@jaggedrobotpubes @zdhzm2pgp have you considered Mint. It’s almost as user friendly as Windows.

The only thing I haven’t been able to work out is SMB sharing which I need for my server that currently runs Windows and for my Jellyfin server.

@deepfuckingdumb @zdhzm2pgp

A. Fuck Adobe
B. I tend to direct people to Linux Mint. It’s so user friendly and similar to Windows its perfect for the Windows Refugees to start out with. It’s what I installed two months ago after having used Windows since Windows 95.

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I’m halfway competent, spent 10 years in IT and even compiled my own kernel back in the early 2000s.

My last 3 attempts at running Ubuntu turned into complete and utter failures, including having to totally reinstall the system over the top of itself because the system became so corrupted it wouldn’t even boot.

And, I barely got steam to work on it. I wasted hundreds of hours and ended up with a barely functional computer that couldn’t print, didn’t support my computers wifi card, and 90% of my work programs aren’t available.

Oh, and someone please support AMD video cards.

But why even care if some random loser gets fucked by Microsoft? It’s like the religious idiots out there who don’t believe in global warming and hate trans people: you can’t deprogram stupid. It’s like waging a war against bears taking a shit in rivers.

Linux bros have been told this for literally decades. They’ll never get it. As long as I can’t use my air pods or even the built in fingerprint reader for my laptop, plug and play, I won’t even try making the switch.

Linux is serverware with a barely working GUI and people are still talking about “just switch”.

I don’t think this community is a stronghold of linux, as you can see in the comments. We need to start from somewhere.

Yeah,there is one dude in the Linux group here that is just a complete jackass. Half answers your question, and most of it is just telling you a line of code with no other input and basically treating you like an ass hole for even asking. I don’t remember his name, I have him blocked, but absolutely hated seeing Linux posts with this fucking turd each time. Very demeaning and completely ruins the community. I feel like his personality is just trash and he’s always in a “roll your eyes / deep sigh” mood.

I wish I could just keep upvoting this.

I’ll add, want to see your average person roll their eyes and say “nope”, just tell them they have to manually edit a bunch of config files to get going. How much about your car do you need to know to start your car and get somewhere?

Or install an OS without most of the crap? https://massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

I use linux so idk how that is but I heard is lightweight in bs

Time Machine is just backup software isn’t it? It’s not doing an involuntary index of all your activity and content you interact with, right?

You need to push the boundaries to get anyone to give a shit

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