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Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by hodgehog11 »

__rito__ wrote: post #115
johnisgood wrote: post #97

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I also recommend https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools to debloat your Windows 10-11. Familiarity is not really a good reason against Linux, however. Just install a Linux distro that comes close in looks. What are these Linux distributions these days? Pop OS? Elementary OS? Most people are only using their browsers anyway.

Linux Mint remains the most stable, least babysitting required, solid distro for beginners. Ubuntu is also okay. Pop, Zorin, Elementary, etc. are great choices, too. But if you ask me one , I will suggest Linux Mint. All Linux Mint releases are Long Time Support (LTS) versions, btw. With support for five years.

Pop is woefully out of date at this point due to the ongoing alpha development of COSMIC. I switched off because a whole bunch of Nvidia-related things started breaking. LTS doesn't seem ideal for Nvidia in my experience.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by dfedbeef »

louthy wrote: post #60
glimshe wrote: post #37

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Or most professional audio applications...

Bitwig works on Linux, but the problem I had was that my pro-audio soundcard [1] didn’t have supported drivers and I couldn’t get the open source drivers to work. I tried switching to a Dante based solution: none of the Dante based apps worked, so I tried AES67 (open source Dante), still no joy — I just could not get my Dante/AES67 AD/DA converters (which attach to everything in my studio) to be ‘seen’ on Linux. So a…

The reliable way to do this (I found) is check the kernel source tree first. The supported pro sound cards are, typically, kind of old. Because FOSS developers aren't just gifted hardware and documentation to write the drivers so they're a generation or two behind.

Counterintuitively; using the latest kernel can be more stable as bug fixes are merged.

RME does have a few supported cards (I use one) but they're mostly the ADAT ones. And the driver is in-tree.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by poulpy123 »

65 wrote: post #122
Moomoomoo309 wrote: post #30

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Linux isn't a maintenance hobby unto itself if you don't make it one. After the initial migration struggles (which you'll get on MacOS too), if you choose a boring distro like Debian, the maintenance burden is similar to Windows. Lots of Linux users love customizing the crap out of their stuff, so it becomes one, but it isn't inherently like that if you keep your configuration somewhat close to stock on whatever dist…

Are you seriously suggesting someone new to Linux use Debian, one of the most annoying distros to set up for desktop use? I used Linux Mint for about a year and gave up because everything was constantly breaking and the software was a direct downgrade from MacOS in terms of usability and prevalence. Oh, and new hardware usually doesn't even work on Linux. Linux is like Communism, sounds great in theory but in reality…

> Linux is like Communism, sounds great in theory but in reality it doesn't work.

Man I'm using windows and defending it's usage in this very thread but that's totally stupid

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by sabellito »

bitexploder wrote: post #46
varbhat wrote: post #17

Until 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)

You have to opt in to Recall. You must have a “Copilot+ PC” which has an “NPU”. The snapshots are stored and processed locally.

Opt in for now. Locally for now.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by johncessna »

bitexploder wrote: post #46
varbhat wrote: post #17

Until 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)

You have to opt in to Recall. You must have a “Copilot+ PC” which has an “NPU”. The snapshots are stored and processed locally.

Don't forget that Recall was initially on by default. It wasn't until users were like, WTF, did they make it off by default.

That will last for as long as it takes for the value of privacy and ownership erodes further and then it'll get switched back to on by default.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by axpvms »

bitexploder wrote: post #46
varbhat wrote: post #17

Until 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)

You have to opt in to Recall. You must have a “Copilot+ PC” which has an “NPU”. The snapshots are stored and processed locally.

I have one of those PCs, but I have Linux running on it. Can I use the NPU for anything useful? It seems not at the moment (am using AMD)

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by Almondsetat »

pjc50 wrote: post #39
varbhat wrote: post #17

Until 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)

As mentioned at the bottom, there's another API, which is to flag the window as containing DRM'd content. Although I suppose there's not really anything to stop AI vendors doing copyright infringement if they want.

If you flag your browser as DRM content then people won't be able to take screenshots, except maybe with the included browser utility

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Post by hodgehog11 »

vips7L wrote: post #158
freeone3000 wrote: post #89

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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.

Every single game you mentioned has some sort of tinker step reported on protondb even though it may be marked platinum. Here’s the one for oblivion: DRI_PRIME=1 WINEDLLOVERRIDES="xaudio2_7=n,b" PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=90 %command% Or maybe it’s this one that the next user reported… DXIL_SPIRV_CONFIG=wmma_fp8_hack FSR4_UPGRADE=1 game-performance %command% I personally don’t want to have to do stuff like that to get them t…

These are almost always unnecessary. I have 460 games in my Steam library (most of them are popular games, including ones mentioned in the parent comment, not obscure indies) and all of them work great out of the box without command line options. That's a higher success rate than my Windows machine. For example, the latter command is for someone who wants to hack in FSR4 support on 9xxx AMD cards; this is for power users.

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Post by crtasm »

diggan wrote: post #34
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #28

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if you use google then history.google.com It is a totally worthwhile and useful bit of tech, unfortunately the scumbags have it and so you want to disable it because you don't want them to benefit even though they are giving you something useful in exchange.

> if you use google then history.google.com I use gmail from time to time, and YouTube, but literally everything else I do on the computer won't be visible there. What would be cool would be to ask "What documents about ICs did I have open last night around 23:00?" and have it give me a list of local paths that I looked at, and it's all outside of browsers/Google. And of course, have it all be local.

Windows already tracks file usage (e.g. recent files), maybe that could be set to keep more history.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by dspillett »

mattmanser wrote: post #98
dspillett wrote: post #62

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> I don't want my computer to be a maintenance hobby unto itself That hasn't been the case with Linux, any more than other OSs, for some time now. At least not if you chose an LTS release of a big “getting work done” oriented distro rather than something geared around the bleeding edge or customisability. There are issues with some software support, but that is almost all Windows stuff that you'll have the same probl…

Scan your comment: That hasn't been the case with Linux...for some time now There are issues There are occasional hardware issue You're arguing against yourself.

Admitting that it isn't perfect is called being adult and offering a realistic assessment. I've had more issues with hardware with Windows in the past than Linux. Under the Apple system hardware issues are “solved” by simply limiting what is considered compatible.

Maybe actually read the my comment, in which I mention such caveats, instead of just scanning to pluck out the few words which agree with your existing blinkered view. Your reply is like film posters paraphrasing quotes like “Terribly written, nothing good to say about it!” to “Terribly good!”…

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