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Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by KTibow »

bboygravity wrote: post #80
lostmsu wrote: post #53

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It supposed to be local.

An OpenAI model running locally, not sending data to OpenAI? Similar to how llama3 can be run locally? Yeah, you'll have to bring some sources for me to begin buying that. It goes totally against everything Microsoft and OpenAI have been pushing.

What makes you say that it uses OpenAI models? From what I understand right now it only has search functionality, which could be easily done with a local embedding model (similar to the open-weights CLIP) and possibly OCR.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by ZunarJ5 »

olyjohn wrote: post #153
ZunarJ5 wrote: post #143

Is Ubuntu the best for a touchscreen? Is there a specific flavour people are happy with? I prefer to keep to Ubuntu if possible as I use it as my daily. I have a HP laptop I got a year or two ago with a pen. It's literally the only thing holding me back from switching on that machine. I have run debloat tools on it but Windows doesn't respect that with subsequent updates.

I ran Ubuntu on a Surface Pro 2 like 6 years ago. Touchscreen seems to work as well as Windows as far as I can tell.

This is good to hear. It seems built for it.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by bee_rider »

UberFly wrote: post #139

Despite lots of good info here, it's devolved into yet another "just switch to Linux" thread. Sigh.

I wish people would just switch to Linux so they’d shut up about it.

I use Linux every day, I love it, but it is a community project with rough edges and no customer service. Pretty small rough edges nowadays. But they are still there, and there’s no customer service.

Always happy to see people join Linux, but slightly confused at the folks advertising it. Are they implicitly signing up to be the customer service for these folks who are used to an OS-as-a-product type setup?

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

Kenji wrote: post #54
swatcoder wrote: post #44

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For many graphics professionals, that's like asking if you'd consider replacing C++ with Rust. There's one answer you might provide when you've the luxury to start things over and ramp up on all the differences, but practical reality is that you rarely have that luxury. Fluency and confidence in the tools you already use provides strong resistance to switching, even if alternatives promise they're ready to meet your…

> For many graphics professionals, that's like asking if you'd consider replacing C++ with Rust. So, that's a yes?

Imagine if no C++ compiler existed for your operating system. Even if most of the code you write is Rust, would you be able to use this operating system?

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by blibble »

sunaookami wrote: post #51
brink wrote: post #3

Does anyone know any good "debloat" scripts to disable all these modern features of Windows 11 and bring me back to something that resembles the Windows I grew up with? I'm having a hard time keeping track of all of the registry keys and config settings I need to update to keep this crap at bay.

Not directed at you but I find it funny that people (rightfully!) complain about Microsoft spyware and then run some dubious scripts from who-knows-where. With the added side effects that these scripts always disable/remove waaaay too much and break the install which then lead to users cursing Microsoft for things that the user has broken without knowing.

is it that funny?

I'd trust some rando on github more than modern Microsoft

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by ZunarJ5 »

wvenable wrote: post #82
sunaookami wrote: post #51

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Not directed at you but I find it funny that people (rightfully!) complain about Microsoft spyware and then run some dubious scripts from who-knows-where. With the added side effects that these scripts always disable/remove waaaay too much and break the install which then lead to users cursing Microsoft for things that the user has broken without knowing.

I find it funny that on website called hacker news, it's still assumed that anyone who customizes their system must also be an idiot that knows nothing about being safe online.

I like to live dangerously and with my riced up little Linux setup. It makes me feel cool and edgy.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by mistermann »

hypeatei wrote: post #131
mistermann wrote: post #79

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It is plausible MS is taking marching orders from a higher power, off the record.

No, that scheme would be too hard to contain so the three letter agencies are blatant about it. They just let tech companies develop these things and know they'll have access to the data anyway. For every real user that finds a tool slurping up data to be useful, there are 100 law enforcement agents also saying it's useful so everyone should hop on the bandwagon.

It's not possible for you to know how hard to contain it is.

The commonality of strange beliefs like this makes me seriously wonder if there is an initiative on social media to teach this form of thinking as being correct, because it is certainly the default. Try defecting from the game for a month and watch the other players from the sidelines, and see if you don't see what I'm talking about.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

rft wrote: post #133
zamalek wrote: post #107

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Valve Index. I currently dual-boot Windows for VR. This is the rabbit hole I went down (to be clear: SteamVR, specifically the compositor, is completely broken). 1. Install Monado with libsurvive. 2. Discover that libsurvive doesn't have the "smarts" that SteamVR has, and that calibration can be wonky (and was wonky for me). 3. Learn that you can import SteamVR calibration data. I can't do this in Linux because, well…

Well, I got Monado and libsurvive running some time ago (Valve Index, X11, Nvidia), even for Beat Saber. It sadly was unplayable, because reflections were wrong in VR apps, it felt like both eyes using the same reflection angle instead of adjusting it to each eye. For close objects this was bearable, anything further away would look "wrong" and cause VR sickness. Also the FoV was wrong, it felt like a vignette around…

I don't understand why Valve of all companies isn't supporting Linux here.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by freeAgent »

BadHumans wrote: post #15
robotnikman wrote: post #7

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The day Proton or WINE can run the whole Adobe suite of products is the day I will probably switch to using Linux full time.

Would you consider replacing the Adobe suite with other products?

Yes, I already have. Unfortunately, all the best tools for photography (my hobby) are Windows and Mac only. So I migrated to Mac. Linux is not an option because my software simply won’t run.

Re: Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency

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Post by hbn »

zamalek wrote: post #123
twojacobtwo wrote: post #111

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Are you sure? Is this recent (last 6 months)? I enabled it and tested multiple versions of Proton with no success. Did you have to do anything else?

In addition to making sure that the EAC runtime is installed, try setting the compatibility command to: SDL_VIDEODRIVER=windows,x11 %command% This is a typical problem with EAC.

Every thread that starts with "Linux gaming is basically 100% ready now" progresses into hacks like this :)
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