Windows Recall AI snapshots stored in an unencrypted SQL file in appdata. Apparently. Already there is scripts to install it on unsupported devices.

[Angry Shoes]

 

[Sharpeteer]

My fellow macfag, tomorrow we are going to find out just how bad Apples take on all this AI integration is going to be.

While the stock Apple experience is slightly more private in the sense that you're not having your data sold to third party companies (you're just having Apple themselves harvest it, it's been in the news), you're trading off the freedom of actually owning your hardware due to the inability to repair it with replacement parts that don't have their explicit blessing, and you can only do this with their support monitoring the whole process over the internet, and in my opinion, just "malicious compliance" with repair legislation, so as far as I'm concerned, it's not even an option. Plus Apple's latest Keynote showed us they are fully going in on the AI bandwagon as well. I think it's only a matter of time.

One thing I will say in Apple's favor though, is that if I had a metaphorical gun to my head and had to choose between the stock iPhone experience, or the stock Google Android experience, no modifications/jailbreaks, or anything, I'd pick the iPhone, as they at least understand that cramming so much shit in your face is a terrible user experience, as stock iOS is pretty bare bones as it is today. iOS 16 made that a lot worse though imo. iOS 15 was pretty decent.

But to that I would say get on the next level and put LineageOS/Graphene/Calyx on your phone and be done with it.

 

[The Great Milenko]

Anyone have experience with System76?
I have picked up on non-Microsoft productivity tools, and there may be only a few that I have no choice but to run on WINE. That's fine honestly. I am system agnostic (Windows, OSX), and I have only dabbled with Linux over 20 years. The only reason I never bothered is being retarded and sticking with MS office tools and other programs that were only available to run on Windows (WINE too for sure honestly).
I am thinking it is time to jump off this MS train.

 

[Diesel Boogaloo]

Makes me glad I use Macs at home and work and that Apple at least keeps up the pretence of valuing user privacy and security (rainbows here). I honestly don’t know why anybody would need this feature unless you had alzheimers or something.

My fellow macfag, tomorrow we are going to find out just how bad Apples take on all this AI integration is going to be.

Have you guys already forgotten how Apple was considering scanning all your photos for cheese pizza?

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-detection-icloud-photos-encryption-privacy/

 

[Betonhaus]

My fellow macfag, tomorrow we are going to find out just how bad Apples take on all this AI integration is going to be.

I'm not placing bets. Apple TV shows and movies show that Apple can be inspired if they want to, but at the same time their software reeks of the vibe of all the genius developers left the company and whoever's left is dedicated to trying to hack the legacy code into doing whatever marketing demands.
The Apple Vision had potential, but that potential required inspiration to deal with its flaws of being slow and heavy. That glass virtual eyes gimmick and squeezed in components made it too heavy. There was a concept for a "laptop" that had a built in lightweight vr headset instead of a display and it would've been epic as an Apple Vision.

 

[Gas Grass Or Ass]

Here are some hypothetical, but realistic vectors wrt "what else could they collect?":

• Some smartphone apps already log your taps/scrolls/page linger times. Recall isn't very different
• Your phone's face scanner can be used to track your gaze (Windows Hello is the PC equivalent)
• Articles pop up every so often explaining how WiFi signals can be used to see through walls
• Your phone's gyroscope can be used to determine what kind of activity you're doing (biking, walking, sitting, fucking, etc.)
• Ambient light sensors indicate how bright your room is (sounds innocuous, but combine with any of the above and it says more than you might think)
• And of course, microphones and cameras that don't reliably and definitively indicate when they're enabled

It goes on and on, and will only get worse as people become comfortable sharing their secrets with AI services. With the way things are going, I assume the endgame plan is to make something like that quantum future-predicting supercomputer from Devs. But they'll use it to sell us bullshit. Or arrest us for crimes we have yet to commit.

This is why I always tell people to put their fucking phones down. They make these devices addictive for a reason. I lift my phone and use it between 4-6 times a day for 3-4 minutes each time just to respond to some work messages, except for that nice 10-minute window when I'm taking a shit and want to scroll through this site and laugh like a retard.

There are parents out there who don't realize how much they're pozz-braining their children by doom-scrolling in front of them for hours at a time. Kids start to think that shit's OK and the cycle continues. It's about as bad as doing coke in front of them, because it hits the same centers in the brain.

Aside from the addiction component, you're also holding a wiretap in your hands constantly, giving both the government and multi-billion-dollar globohomo corporations an incredible amount of access to your thoughts, habits, movements, and other shit you didn't even know you were providing access to.

If you haven't done so yet and you're reading this, please stop whatever you're doing and plan to talk to everyone close to you about this. Smartphones are one of the most dangerous things you can own. I'm not even exaggerating.

 

[Gas Grass Or Ass]

Anyone have experience with System76?
I have picked up on non-Microsoft productivity tools, and there may be only a few that I have no choice but to run on WINE. That's fine honestly. I am system agnostic (Windows, OSX), and I have only dabbled with Linux over 20 years. The only reason I never bothered is being retarded and sticking with MS office tools and other programs that were only available to run on Windows (WINE too for sure honestly).
I am thinking it is time to jump off this MS train.

System76 makes Linux very accessible. They recently got in a bit of a scandal because of an oopsie with Linus Sebastian when it turned out that installing Steam uninstalls your desktop environment but that has since been fixed. Linus was also a retard and didn't read what was on his screen. It was something along the lines of,, "WARNING: Something absolutely stupid is about to happen if you proceed. You're about to uninstall your desktop environment. To proceed anyway, type 'Yes, do as I say.'"

And of course the moron fucking typed it because he thought it was the equivalent of clicking "Next" in an installer without giving it a second thought (BTW if you stick with Windows, don't do that; read what your installer tells you because sometimes it's important).

The only problem I have with System76 is that they're corralling the user experience around their own repositories, but that's not something the avg user should really care about. As far as the most beginner-friendly distros, you can't go wrong with their Pop!_OS. It's close enough to bleeding edge that it keeps the hardware junkies happy while also providing the ease of use you'll never get with Arch.

If you want something that's a bit more tried and true, go with Fedora. It also ships with KDE, which might be more your thing if you're used to the way Windows does things. Using KDE in System76's Pop!_OS is a fucking nightmare and I do not recommend it.

 

[Roland TB-303]

My fellow macfag, tomorrow we are going to find out just how bad Apples take on all this AI integration is going to be.

From what I’ve read their intention was to keep it all on-device for privacy which is why they’ve been so slow but they probably just dropped the ball and thought an Apple Car was a better idea.

 

[Betonhaus]

From what I’ve read their intention was to keep it all on-device for privacy which is why they’ve been so slow but they probably just dropped the ball and thought an Apple Car was a better idea.

My understanding is that they abandoned the Apple Car project years ago because they have successfully pissed off every major company that could've worked with them to produce an Apple Car. I don't remember that last time Apple came out with a product that was truly inspired.

 

[Roland TB-303]

My understanding is that they abandoned the Apple Car project years ago because they have successfully pissed off every major company that could've worked with them to produce an Apple Car. I don't remember that last time Apple came out with a product that was truly inspired.

I know, I’ve used Apple stuff for a while but they’ve been painfully behind the curve for at least 10 years now. That Apple headset is pretty embarrassing and word is that it’s flopped hard. Without sounding too hyperbolic, tomorrow could be make or break.

 

[Betonhaus]

I know, I’ve used Apple stuff for a while but they’ve been painfully behind the curve for at least 10 years now. That Apple headset is pretty embarrassing and word is that it’s flopped hard. Without sounding too hyperbolic, tomorrow could be make or break.

I think Apple's "Reality Distortion Field" finally imploded when they tried to sell a $999 anodized aluminum monitor stand.

 

[std::string]

Anyone have experience with System76?
I have picked up on non-Microsoft productivity tools, and there may be only a few that I have no choice but to run on WINE. That's fine honestly. I am system agnostic (Windows, OSX), and I have only dabbled with Linux over 20 years. The only reason I never bothered is being retarded and sticking with MS office tools and other programs that were only available to run on Windows (WINE too for sure honestly).
I am thinking it is time to jump off this MS train.

If you have no real reason to use Microsoft Office then Linux is entirely fine.

If you have to work with Excel files that are only held together by all the crust they've collected through the last fifteen years, though...you really need MS Excel to do this and the last version to run on wine is like...2013 maybe.

 

[cybertoaster]

Objection!
Turning men into eunuchs to make perfect, unhinged slaves is at least an ancient occult activity. These days it's just becoming streamlined, but the "epidemic" of nefarious scumfucks scrubbing and breaking other people's minds to have absolute control over them is much older than loonuhks.

The linux scene sucks now tho.

Ok so windows 10 is fine?

Its about to get deprecated.

As far as we know. Every copy of Windows going as far back as 95 does, at some point, "phone home".

They had backdoors for sure, the glowies went asking for those the moment windows became "the OS". But phoning home really started around vista I think.

 

[skibidi biden]

The malicious compliance route of pirating Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC with startallback is an option if and when they make software stop working with Windows 10 that not enough people are talking about tbh

 

[The Ugly One]

you're trading off the freedom of actually owning your hardware due to the inability to repair it with replacement parts that don't have their explicit blessing

In 20 years of owning Apple laptops and desktops, I've had two parts fail. A laptop hard drive went out after about 7 years of use, and a battery died. Turns out you don't need to DIY repair when the OEM doesn't cut corners with shitty parts.

 

[Betonhaus]

In 20 years of owning Apple laptops and desktops, I've had two parts fail. A laptop hard drive went out after about 7 years of use, and a battery died. Turns out you don't need to DIY repair when the OEM doesn't cut corners with shitty parts.

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/flexgate/

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Bendgate

 

[The Ugly One]

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/flexgate/

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Bendgate

How many defects in HP laptops can you find in that same 8-year period?

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Oh don't like our draconic change? Should have read the NDA.

Oh the NDA also included the part where you're not to bitch and moan. Beaned 4ever can't use pc anymore

 

[morto di figa]

interesting... once I wean myself off MS Edge I might look into switching from Linux Mint to Arch or it's derivatives.

Have you looked at Linuxfx? Comes with edge, co-pilot and PowerShell installed and integrates with your ms account and OneDrive. Wine installed so you can install windows applications by downloading the .exe and double clicking (in theory at least, you probably still want steam). Android apps with graphical acceleration also working out of the box
I came pretty close to making this my daily driver but I found the UI lacked polish, things like light yellow text on white backgrounds and trendy invisible borders making it hard to know which window I'm in is too much for an oldfag like me but I suspect with a vanilla install of cinnamon or xfce it would be pretty ideal for peeps coming from the M$ ghetto.
Oh and no doubt when OpenRecall matures they'll include it to keep the whole "windows clone" thing as realistic as possible.

 

[sweater_supremacy]

I've met a lot more troons in Microsoft-related dev groups than Linux ones. People should ask themselves why one OS is more pozzed than the other.

It's not like they have tried to get in, Caroline ada's CoC comes to mind