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Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by hightrix »

__rito__ wrote: post #118
shevis wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gaming. Linux gaming has come a long way (especially thanks to the steam deck) but the vast majority of games are still only released on Windows.

What stops you from dual-booting? You use Windows for games, and only games. For everything else , you use Linux. This is a practical setup.

I'd argue it isn't a practical setup.

Dual-booting means supporting 2 OSes on my personal machine. My personal machine is for doing personal things, not supporting OSes.

I use windows on my main PC because it supports all the games I want to play, and it also supports all the software I want to use. Linux does not. Simple as that, for me.

I also use Linux and Mac at work daily. I prefer to use the right tool for the job.

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Post by louthy »

mystifyingpoi wrote: post #216
louthy wrote: post #60

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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…

Linux audio is definitely hit and miss. Even with the most standard soundcard in existence (Scarlett) I still had problems with it. After fiddling a bit it works okay-ish, but there were definitely moments of "screw it, I'm buying a Mac".

This works well for me on Linux Mint:

https://solidstatelogic.com/products/ssl-2-plus-mkii

It has pro quality converters and is plug-n-play.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by mrbigbob »

LooseMarmoset wrote: post #3

Who, exactly, is clamoring for Recall in the first place? And who is to say that Microsoft will honor the toggle, “for analytic and performance metric” purposes? EDIT: the rant above shouldn’t cast aspersions on Brave, good on them for trying.

THe same people who wanted web searches to appear in windows search bar, the higher ups at microsoft. they juice their numbers and say "See, look how many people are using our recall product. just like "See, look how many people are using Bing (in case of the web searches in windows search).

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by ziml77 »

chasing0entropy wrote: post #40
ur-whale wrote: post #21

The real question is: can recall be forcibly torn out of your system, not if a specific application tries to "block" it.

Probably no more than explorer.exe (i.e. internet explorer integration) can be torn out of windows.

explorer.exe is the graphical shell and file browser...

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Post by poulpy123 »

johnisgood wrote: post #202
poulpy123 wrote: post #152

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Familiarity is shorthand for time and energy. Neither of them are infinite. Ironically your second sentence is an example of the impact on time and energy the switch will have: someone who just decided to switch from windows to linux will have to take the time and spend the energy to chose between the dozen of linux distributions before any practical consideration.

Well, I have been told by many people to install Windows on their PC or laptop. I installed Linux instead. They were quite happy with that. If you want it out of the box, there are laptops out there with Linux pre-installed, but it is not as common, unfortunately. So I do not see the irony. They usually ask someone to install an OS, or they buy a computer pre-installed with an OS.

If you do all the work, they indeed don't need to spend time and energy on the switch itself, and even better if their usage is limited enough they don't encounter missing software or incompatibilities with the windows world.

The irony is that before doing the work for the switch, and even before doing the work of checking if the switch is feasible for their need, they will need to spend time and energy to select which linux distrib they should choose. Switching from linux to windows of macos doesn't have this issue

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by sdoering »

ubermonkey wrote: post #188
sdoering wrote: post #31

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YMMV I switched from Mac to WIN a few years ago, because maintaining MB Pros became a nightmare, after having had six burned mainboards (with Macbook Pro devices each) within 3 years. I had definitely enough. Happy my former employer had to shell out the money for repairs/replacements. But each time getting back into a workable state with my backups still took north of two days. And while for my day job I still need…

>getting back into a workable state with my backups still took north of two days. It sounds like you're not very good at backups, then. I've only ever needed to do a real DR once, after we were robbed, but my Time Machine restore had my replacement Macbook up, runing, and with my application states in place within about 2 hours. >longer battery life As an Apple Silicon user, I doubt that. ;)

Ah yes, clearly a skill issue on my part. Thanks for that insight.

I'm sure you've never had the pleasure of working in a corporate environment where IT has banned Time Machine, external drives, and replacement machines that actually match your storage capacity. Where "backup and restore" means navigating a Kafkaesque ticketing system on your phone to get someone in a different timezone to temporarily unlock your account because you're now on an "untrusted device."

The actual data backup? 2-4 hours, worked fine. The rest was dealing with invalidated certificates, version mismatches in corporate "security" software (that ironically required Flash to be "compliant"), and finding a replacement machine that wasn't a 256GB base model when you need to restore from a larger drive.

But you're right - back when we were independent, before the corporate acquisition, Time Machine worked exactly as advertised. Two hours, everything restored perfectly. Then came the security theater that somehow made machines less secure while being infinitely more annoying to manage.

So yeah, clearly I'm just not good at "backups." Got it.

> As an Apple Silicon user, I doubt that. ;)

Feel free to doubt away - yours is definitely longer. For context: I'm comparing Windows vs Linux on the same dual-boot hardware (old Intel workhorse), not against whatever "M" you are running. Linux consistently delivers 40-45% better battery life than Windows on identical hardware. Still need the Windows partition for certain freelance client work, but working on eliminating that dependency entirely.

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Post by curtisblaine »

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 DAW is just a small part of it. You need all the plugins to work too :(

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by poulpy123 »

65 wrote: post #206
poulpy123 wrote: post #163

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> 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

Care to explain why you think this analogy is stupid?

because whatever you think of communism, linux is not an ideology and it works very well

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Post by thmsths »

__rito__ wrote: post #118
shevis wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gaming. Linux gaming has come a long way (especially thanks to the steam deck) but the vast majority of games are still only released on Windows.

What stops you from dual-booting? You use Windows for games, and only games. For everything else , you use Linux. This is a practical setup.

I will bite. I have this exact setup. And indeed at the very beginning I would mostly use Linux, then I started playing more games on Windows. And that's when the convenience factor makes windows win. Having to reboot to use linux after a gaming session is annoying when I can just open another app in windows and achieve the same result (and don't forget I would have to reboot yet again when it's time to resume play).

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Post by bigyabai »

curtisblaine wrote: post #227
louthy wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 DAW is just a small part of it. You need all the plugins to work too :(

Unless you bought Audio Units (let's be honest, you knew you were fucked), VSTs have multiple options for running on Linux:

https://airwave.fxarena.net/

https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge

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