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Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all (mashable.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Who is surprised?

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[+] 125 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)
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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Because they make it easy and do a few cool things.

    "Do you want a mic in your home that can record everything you say and do and send that data off to wherever the company chooses?"

    "No of course not."

    "What about of it will also turn your lights on and off and play despacito on demand?"

    "You son of a bitch, sign me up".

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Microsoft also wants to use 50 gigabytes of your hard drive space (for the Recall snapshots) and make you buy AI co-processors or their software won't work. They want to use your property to create their own Skynet.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah they want you to pay for the hardware to train their crappy ai, pay for the OS so you can train their crappy ai, and then also provide your data to train their crappy AI.

    And in return you get to use Windows.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On Arch you can easily uninstall Linux.

    The fun part is that there are even legit reasons to do so, the by far most likely one being that you want to use a different package that provides you with a kernel, such as linux-lts or linux-hardened. Definitely know what you are doing in that case though!

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Linux in general and Arch in particular are kinda laissez-faire in that they'll allow you to shoot yourself in the foot. Some distros may put barriers in your way, others practically hand you the gun, but at the end of the day, the gun is freely available and it's your own foot that you're shooting.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Do you tolerate the TPM/fTPM in your computer? Can you deactivate it? Can you query it? Can you tell it to do something?

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