I was thinking about switching back to Windows but finally getting missing functionalities like Recall may change my mind...
Recall for Linux
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Re: Recall for Linux
#102Mac only but if you want a local only version of this (which has been mentioned in other comments), Dayflow[1] looks decent. I think I'd actually love something like this but can't quite bring myself to run it.. even with local models [1] https://github.com/JerryZLiu/Dayflow
Nice, I did not know about that. I've built something similar (https://github.com/Srakai/aw-llm-worker) on top of ActivityWatch (https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch)
Re: Recall for Linux
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. It is absolutely ridiculous to suggest that one must read some unknown script just for the simple task of adding a binary to the directory on PATH. Unless, of course, you're the type of person who just runs any script without verification. Furthermore, for files installed 'automatically' like that, it's nearly impossible to remember what was done and where. This means that to remove it, you have to find and read…
Yeah uninstallation is a flaw, but what alternative are you suggesting? And yes I am the type of person that uses heuristics to trust what software to run. You aren't magically safer if you audit the install script and not the actual binary.
The smaller the attack surface, the better. There is no need to expand it unnecessarily. By your logic, we shouldn't even use the binaries provided by the official package manager, because they also cannot be trusted.
We are talking about the dangers of the installation method. Not the program itself.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just nuked my home server Ubuntu and installed Windows. Canonical is still unable to make reliable TPM-unlocked full disk encryption, unacceptable for me as a data hoarder. https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/2045417
Don't use Ubuntu?
That's exactly what I thought and acted.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recall is an attempt at a solution all of us have encountered so many times in life.
Taking screenshots of your whole desktop every other second and sending it to a third part, just in case their OCR and cheap search built on top of it might come up with something useful? I haven't found a single situation where I would rather take that above more conventional and established approaches (browser history search, bookmarking, file management hygiene, etc)
The problem of "where did I see that" is something I suspect most people have encountered before. How that's actually done, though, is the devil. The vision -- semantic search of human experience -- is cool. The implementation -- always recording cameras piping every minute of your life to TotallyTrustworthyPeople's servers -- not so.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
To me it felt like just shoving more AI for the sake of it, pretending that there is a problem to solve while making no case for it, and boiling oceans along the way as an acceptable externality.
Recall is an attempt at a solution all of us have encountered so many times in life.
> all
I’m not anti-AI, although I am anti a 3rd-party recording everything on my screen like some sort of voluntary Stasi.
I can’t however think of a single time when this kind of functionality would have been something I would reach for.
So, if you’re going to say “all”, please give me one example where I needed it.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
To me it felt like just shoving more AI for the sake of it, pretending that there is a problem to solve while making no case for it, and boiling oceans along the way as an acceptable externality.
Recall is an attempt at a solution all of us have encountered so many times in life.
Please include me (and *everyone I've spoken to, from ignorant users to experts) out of 'all of us have encountered ..."
If you use recall, could you explain how? And what solutions does it provide (for you)?
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
The value MS gains from milking to non technical people for all they’re worth outweighs the loss of the occasional tech savvy user. And sadly I think MS are still far from the tipping point and it will get worse and worse for some time to come. The only thing the non-techies have is the law to protect them.
They might be risking their quasi-monopoly/duopoly position. Probably not but before it was a 0% chance and now its nonzero.
I'm curious what they think the future looks like, Linux is growing on the desktop/laptop (in part driven by Valve/Steam), Users care less and less about PC's outside of the office generally - the primary computing device of most people is a phone not a PC doubly so if you exclude work - gaming has been a huge part of why many people still have PC's in the home and see above.
Not sure what their actual moat is in preventing a slow bleed out from multiple factors over the long term.
I think they'll hold businesses that are already on Windows for everything - like it/love it/loathe it Active Directory/Exchange etc do work for businesses but there has always been a halo effect from the same OS been used in the office as at work, i.e. people knew how to use word when they got into work because they'd used word at school (Chromebooks are very strong there) or home etc.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ...outside of gaming my computing life is linux... If you've games purchased through Steam, try running them on Linux with the officially-supported-and-written-for-Linux Steam client. Over the past decade+, a ton of work has been put into making games work fine under Wine and Valve's fork of Wine called Proton. I've found that nearly every game in my embarrassingly-large Steam library works fine on Linux.
> I've found that nearly every game in my embarrassingly-large Steam library works fine on Linux. I have on occasion been scared off of buying a package from Humble Bundle when the games are available on Steam but not explicitly marked as linux. (Some of the games are marked with linux and some are not.) Are you saying I am being unnecessarily cautious? For example, there is a "momcore" bundle at the moment where som…
You can still use Proton with games not purchased on Steam: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/pvzn03/runnin...
Re: Recall for Linux
#110For the first time since the 1980's I'm not going to be running a PC with a Microsoft OS on anywhere (I dual boot my main desktop since I use it for work and gaming) but the Windows 11 install is getting binned. Tired of having to read release notes carefully and make sure I've done just the right things to stop it doing things I never asked it to do. Good job MS, you lost a customer who's never likely to come back.…
> ...outside of gaming my computing life is linux... If you've games purchased through Steam, try running them on Linux with the officially-supported-and-written-for-Linux Steam client. Over the past decade+, a ton of work has been put into making games work fine under Wine and Valve's fork of Wine called Proton. I've found that nearly every game in my embarrassingly-large Steam library works fine on Linux.
I was very skeptical of the claim that gaming on linux is good now, but fully switched over last weekend.
All of the games I play on a regular basis just worked out of the box with no fiddling at all (nVidia graphics card, X11, pop_OS - but I'm pretty sure any modern distribution would work just as well). Fresh OS install (nvidia drivers just worked), install the steam flatpack, click "download", click "play". That's it.
This includes "modern" games such as Borderlands 4 and e.g. Helldivers 2.