Windows Rulecall
::: spoiler alt text A comic
Windows OS: "We have a brand new feature called Windows Recall that you might like!"
Guy: "Oh boy! What does it do?"
Windows: "It helps you find anything you've seen on your PC by using clues you give or by letting you scroll through your past activity!"
Guy: "Wow! How does this tech work?"
Windows: "Our Windows AI constantly takes pictures of your screen and saves all that data" :::
Considering how bad the basic search function and file explorer have become, I bet it would make it harder to find what you're looking for. I already scroll past Google's new search engine AI, and I would probably learn to filter out the tips from programs like this because they're unreliable. Consistency is what actually helps me do things quicker, not features that change constantly to personalize the experience.
For real. It would rather take me to a bing results page for (AppName) than open the fucking app that is actually installed.
I thought that feature was related to the expensive for pay Copilot feature? The recall feature listed a huge amount of space required for it to work, something like 275 GB, SSD. There is no way that'll just be a baked in feature in normal home Windows. Am I wrong Lemmy? To be clear, that feature can F right off.
Yeah it won't be in regular PCs anytime soon, since this feature apparently requires
But the point is that they market Recall as this great new premium feature when it's actually very dystopic. Even if you trust Microsoft that it's gonna be entirely local (which I don't), there are lots of other things that could go wrong. Like Recall having your passwords/private conversations/stuff under NDAs in it's database, bugs that could potentially leak the data, malware whose purpose is to exploit it to get access to everything you do on your computer, or a government forcing Microsoft to add a backdooredit: damn I've read this like 10 times before replying and just realized that you did say that the Recall feature sucksThat is such a ridiculous requirement for a thing that's already done better without AI or spying on you.
If it is for just taking images of your screen a cron job or systemd timer can do the trick taking a screenshot twice an hour.
I'm pretty sure the requirements are so high because (at least for now) the AI that will process the screenshots and search queries will run locally
I just dont really see use for this, you could have a historic record of opened programs (filtering system programs) and for the work you are doing in them, the timed screenshot option.
As with everything Microsoft, it's just an exvuse to cram their New Product^TM^
like, as far as features go it's not a bad concept.
being able to go "what's that post about the thing i saw a week ago" is nice and i might even use it if every part of the system was open source and, you know, not made by microsoft, but as it stands even it it works as advertised and is 100% local i just don't trust them to not have some "telemetry" that's collating everything i ever do, ask, or think
Eh, even then it's a gold mine of information on you if your PC ever gets a virus or stolen.
Encryption would help, but not for all scenarios.
Microsoft struggles for years to make a good video calling software and the bought skype. What makes you believe this feature would work at all?
Nothing beats this "grep $1 ~/.bash_history"