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Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by ekianjo » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:05 PM UTC

bobajeff wrote: post #83

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)

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…

> Well for those who are stuck with Windows because of some applications or simply because of familiarity

its a pain for most people at first but its never too late to do the switch.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by glimshe » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

louthy wrote: post #60

glimshe wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

"It works BUT" summarizes my experience with running my top applications on Linux, unfortunately :(

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by mattmanser » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

crinkly wrote: post #20

firesteelrain wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems it enables Copilot to assist the user in finding things on their PC. Somehow find . -iname has worked for years in Linux without AI

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.

Be glad you've gone through life without having a partner or friend that just puts everything on the desktop.

And then complains to you all their files have disappeared.

Usually it's because they've run out of diskspace and windows has created a temporary profile for them (which is crazy default behaviour when you think about it). Not sure if that's still a thing.

Of course they just closed the popup saying "you're running low on diskspace" last week. After all, what are they supposed to do about that?

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by account-5 » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:08 PM UTC

What are the prerequisites hardware-wise for Recall? If it's the case you need certain hardware for it to run properly then not having that hardware is a good migration.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by Weryj » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:11 PM UTC

It's wild that applications now need to defend themselves against OS 'features'.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by arunc » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:12 PM UTC

stainablesteel wrote: post #67

microsoft is just malware at this point, it's intelligence gathering to spy on people how is this even legal?

It is about investors vs users. Microsoft chose you know who.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by johnisgood » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:15 PM UTC

bobajeff wrote: post #83

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)

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…

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.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by mattmanser » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:15 PM UTC

dspillett wrote: post #62

ubermonkey wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not who you asked, but the reason I migrated to Macs years ago, and the reason I stay, is that I don't want my computer to be a maintenance hobby unto itself. I need to do actual work. I also enjoy the polish Apple provides in other ways -- the platform features you get if you're on a Mac, use an iPhone, have a Watch, etc, are all pretty great. Cobbling together something like that on my own under Linux probably…

> 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.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by crinkly » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

mattmanser wrote: post #93

crinkly wrote: post #20

Earlier 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.

Be glad you've gone through life without having a partner or friend that just puts everything on the desktop. And then complains to you all their files have disappeared. Usually it's because they've run out of diskspace and windows has created a temporary profile for them (which is crazy default behaviour when you think about it). Not sure if that's still a thing. Of course they just closed the popup saying "you're r…

I was married to someone for over 20 years who did that. She got told to stop doing it at work as well years ago because it took 40 minutes to copy her profile on login/logout.

Re: Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default

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Post by trashface » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 1:17 PM UTC

freeone3000 wrote: post #89

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.

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 crashes more.