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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”
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 thinkMicrosoft struggles for years to make a good video calling software and the bought skype. What makes you believe this feature would work at all?
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.
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.
Nothing beats this “grep $1 ~/.bash_history”
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.
