Microsoft unveils Recall, and it's really creepy

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Beat me to it ..

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The only use case I can think of for this is for Microsoft and the partners they share their users' data with. Or for corporations monitoring their employees' work computers, but there is already software that does that.

"If you've done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to hide." Yeah, but I still lock the door when I take a crap in a public stall.
 
Currently you have to opt-in to even have the "feature" there. As usual, a lot of hysteria over nothing, but I understand being cautious for the future with anything involving Microsoft and its history of "oops, we turned "X" on after the latest forced bi-weekly Tuesday update."

I've been running Windows 11 24H2 on four laptops and a desktop at home and Recall isn't installed on any of 'em.
I just did a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 on my new laptop and Recall was installed and active. I had to disable it manually.

Ok how do we turn this off? For things like this it seems like there is a way to "turn it off" but it's not actually off.
To check if it's installed and active on your PC run the command prompt as administrator and type: dism /online /get-featureinfo /featurename:Recall
If it's installed and active then type this to turn it off: dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:Recall
 
I just did a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 on my new laptop and Recall was installed and active. I had to disable it manually.


To check if it's installed and active on your PC run the command prompt as administrator and type: dism /online /get-featureinfo /featurename:Recall
If it's installed and active then type this to turn it off: dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:Recall
This is probably in a deboater software. Not at least should and could be.

I like Titus tool for my windows 10 installs. Removes all sorts of BS.
 
I just did a clean install of Windows 11 24H2 on my new laptop and Recall was installed and active. I had to disable it manually.
This is interesting because I just had to nuke my daughter's laptop and perform a clean install of 24H2 last Friday and Recall was not installed nor active. I am running Pro. Are you Pro or Home?
 
As someone with a horrible memory, I actually would like this function. Too bad I use macOS. :(
 
https://www.rewind.ai/ is what you want on Mac

In fact, it was available over a year ahead of Recall's first announcement, and appears to be a much better optimized product, since it's build for the Silicon chips and runs with a very low profile.
Dang, I might give this a try.

The free tier version makes me a little nervous, because that mean I am the product. I definitely want to see what sort of privacy options this has before I install it.

But it does seem pretty cool.

Edit: Wait this legitimately is just passively screen recording ALL the time? Wouldn't that take a huge hit on storage, battery life, and processing? Still might be worth trying, I suppose. But I'm constantly trying to claw back processing power, even on an M2 Max.
 
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Edit: Wait this legitimately is just passively screen recording ALL the time? Wouldn't that take a huge hit on storage, battery life, and processing? Still might be worth trying, I suppose. But I'm constantly trying to claw back processing power, even on an M2 Max.
both of them do that (recall on Windows takes screenshots every few seconds and sends to local model, just like this)

It shouldn't slow you down much given that it's very optimized for the platform. I don't use it, but as far as privacy, I know several software devs who use it and who say it's built safely as far as privacy, all the data stored & processed locally.
 
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