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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Let's say for the sake of argument that is does remain all local. Hogging up your CPU, RAM, and Disk space, but its all local, unlike every other bit telemetry.

If it is completely local, why would I want it? What does the end user gain? I can think of what non-Microsoft agents would gain. If your computer got compromised, now a third party can see everything Recall logged. Could be completely mundane, could be private information, could be something worth blackmailing someone other.

Today I had to punch in my SSN and phone number to for my health insurance to confirm who I said I am. I don't want anyone to know that who has no direct need to.

So if it is completely local, and everyone is opt-in by default, why would I want it in the first place? What does the end user gain? If I wanted my CPU hogged up for no reason, I'd start mining Bitcoin. If it was harmless, why is Microsoft not really commenting on it on the same way they do other things like Office, Teams, Xbox, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't care about the ram or CPU I don't have performance issues and I could not care less that I might be in theory 1.5 fps. If performance is a concern, turn it off.

As for what I'd use it for, global transcriptions, better search, per page search in documents, local searchable documentation, summarization of long contacts, etc. if that's not useful, turn it off.

As for security, this is nothing worse than a locally cached session. If someone already has os level read and write your already fucked. Same with bitwarden or any other app storing credentials. At the end of the day is written to disk. If you don't like that turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Don’t care about the ram or CPU I don’t have performance issues and I could not care less that I might be in theory 1.5 fps. If performance is a concern, turn it off.

you would be surprised what using a lighter OS would do for your system responsiveness. Your system will boot faster, become usable quicker, launch applications sooner, and use less ram. All of which is for free.