The real question is: can recall be forcibly torn out of your system, not if a specific application tries to "block" it.
By not turning it ON.
Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
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Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#132Until the time when Microsoft realises this and creates a privileged API just for Microsoft Recall so that It can see the screen. Better switch to Linux. It's not perfect but I am sure that you will be fine using Linux(Unless you want to use Adobe Suite or Few Corporate applications which won't be used by many)
Well for those who are stuck with Windows because of some applications or simply because of familiarity. My suggestion is to stay on an older release as long as possible. If that isn't possible I would recommend keeping the computer turned off most of the time and only briefly using it for your purpose and try to keep from doing anything embarrassing or personal too much. Another thing that might help is calling up y…
You're not "stuck" due to familiarity. That's a choice. A choice you're free to make, but still a choice.
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#133The real question is: can recall be forcibly torn out of your system, not if a specific application tries to "block" it.
Recall is off by default, it's no more enabled on a clean install than Hyper-V. I think the idea is actually very good, but obviously the privacy concerns are not great. Microsoft has made a lot of changes from what I've seen to allow you to block it on x, y, z, etc.
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#134Until the time when Microsoft realises this and creates a privileged API just for Microsoft Recall so that It can see the screen. Better switch to Linux. It's not perfect but I am sure that you will be fine using Linux(Unless you want to use Adobe Suite or Few Corporate applications which won't be used by many)
Well for those who are stuck with Windows because of some applications or simply because of familiarity. My suggestion is to stay on an older release as long as possible. If that isn't possible I would recommend keeping the computer turned off most of the time and only briefly using it for your purpose and try to keep from doing anything embarrassing or personal too much. Another thing that might help is calling up y…
Video games. Linux can play lots with Proton I have heard but not all.
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#135I can never understand how anyone with an interest in tech hasn't switched to Linux for their personal desktop/laptop at some point in the last 20+ years. Why would you want to use a closed source OS controlled by a corporation with a past as checkered as Microsoft's?
I’ll tell you why I still use a Mac: it’s because my non-techie wife still uses one. Even then I still have to provide her with regular tech support. For someone like her using Linux is not yet a viable option.
Same, I have my whole family on MacOS because the marriage of hardware and software across the ecosystem is unmatched. I totally get why people wouldn't want "i" and "pod" everything, but when you do have everything - it all just plays so nicely together. Even stupid little things like being able to remotely control the tv with your phone, or automatically unlock your computer by simply wearing your watch, add up to reduce a ton of friction day to day.
Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Microsoft specifically allows software in the category “browsers” to disable Recall.
> Microsoft specifically allows software in the category “browsers” to disable Recall. 1. "Browser" does not mean "web browser": many kinds of applications can be considered a browser. 2. Even if you identify "browser" with "web browser": Electron apps are basically (web) browsers (though not fully functional ones). Nobody claimed said for a software to be in the "browser" category, it has to be a fully functional we…
How does the OS know that foobar application is a [[fully functional] web] browser?
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
grep -RHn "_content_" .
Though I much prefer this solution, the GP solution is better when there are non-text documents in the directory tree. Find is nice and that you can narrow it down by file name or file extension, without relying on bash globs.
Yep
I just did it more tongue-in-cheek like the unneeded cat commands.
There’s definitely use cases. If you want to search for a keyword on the file name, that one’s great.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are where I put them. Never used a search function once like this. Perhaps it’s because I lived in the days before search was even a thing.
I often ask myself, where _would_ I put such a thing. Rarely do I have to check more than two or three directories before finding the document I'm looking for, when I pretend that I'm looking for a place to file it now.
I'm wondering if you're either a savant or just have very few documents?
The more documents you have, the more likely you are to have strict classifications. The stricter the classifications the more likely you are to run into something like Russell's paradox.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are where I put them. Never used a search function once like this. Perhaps it’s because I lived in the days before search was even a thing.
There definitely is a sort of pseudo generational gap of how peole interact with computers. I was having a conversation with a 20ish year old the other day about computer for storage and they didn't understand the filing cabinet analogy. Like, for then everything had to be in the desktop folder, but the concept that C:\Users\User\Desktop was like having a folder in a filing cabinet, where C: was the actual cabinet, w…
The desktop metaphor makes it look like the desktop is the starting point. You can understand why someone who has not interacted with a directory through a terminal would think this.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, but thanks to Proton that’s just not relevant? Blue Prince, Clair Obscure, Lost Records, The Alters, Doom: The Dark Ages, Oblivion Remastered, South of Midnight… all run just fine on Steam on linux.
If you have older hardware and play older games, Proton often doesn't run those as well as windows on the same hardware. On my laptop (win10/ubuntu dual boot, about 6 years old) windows is significantly faster in every game I have tried. I also had to do a futzy ad-hoc binary search to find a proton version that works with one game (either fallout 3 or fallout new vegas, can't remember which). And proton generally cr…
> If you have older hardware
So Windows 11 won't work, will it?