Coming soon: Recall comes to Linux
this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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Man, I really love Signal. Not only is it open source and they actually give a shit about privacy, they also don't shy away to give the finger to companies that don't. It's a shame they have to put their time into ways to stop Mocrosoft from spying, but I'm glad they're doing it.
Install Linux already, just get it over with, you'll be happy you did
Linux doesn't protect you from other people you're having conversations with.
That's true, but nothing does. Once someone receives a message, you have no control over what they do with it (regardless of communication channel, encryption, etc.). I read the comment above more like "instead of jumping through hoops to get around the spyware in your operating system, use an operating system that does not come with built-in spyware instead".
Just ask Mike Waltz!
According to Microsoft’s official developer documentation, setting the correct Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag on the application window will ensure that “content won’t show up in Recall or any other screenshot application.”
So I'm guessing that VLC will have a feature flag to enable or disable this setting. Then you play Disney movies that you pirated on loop. Let the lawyers sort it out.
it's scary to imagine that a naive one watching a pirated movie on VLC and MS Recall puts them in jail. Recall is shit, I am glad I moved to linux
So the current situation in Windows ecosystem is that application developers spend time working on protecting users against their own operating system
As a sysadmin I do the same. Its like using alpha quality software.
I'm slowly moving everything to Linux. Currently working on getting my nas running.
Been on Linux for 18 months as my daily driver. Can't possibly love it any more.
Why not? 😡
Because my crusty heart knows not but an abundance of hate, greed, and darkness.
But maybe I'm give it a try later today, I dunno.
You are cute.
Been on Linux for 18 years as my daily driver. Hate it significantly less than all the other options.
Probably closer to 25 years here and I can only remind everyone who switches to Linux that Windows and Mac are quite painful to use when you don't use them often too so don't go by first impressions of comparing what you used for years vs. something you only used a couple of hours.
Also most people who have only used Windows, bought their computers with Windows pre-installed, where the manufacturer loaded a custom Windows image that already has all of their drivers installed and configured. So it's not just that they've never used Linux before, they've often never actually installed any operating system from scratch on any computer and had to deal with the setup process.
Not too long ago I was messaging with someone who kept complaining that Linux was taking HoUrS to get drivers configured and how it clearly wasn't for them because Windows "just works". Meanwhile I'm sitting there thinking of the last time I installed a Linux distro on a machine it took a few minutes to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers and I was done, while the last time I installed Windows on a machine it took ~4 hours to get all of the drivers loaded properly, including blacklisting the f*****g Windows Update utility so it would stop trying to replace my network driver with a broken version that kept taking down the network connection on the machine, and the insanity of having to update, reboot, update, reboot, update, reboot, update, reboot over and over again for half a day until finally all the updates are actually installed and running.
You've been through the wilderness, friend.
I keep dual booting just because sometimes Linux does crap itself.
I have been troubleshooting what's going on with my kde desktop (both x11 and wayland affected) for about 8 hours no with no success. I have a zoom appointment this afternoon so I am glad I can still boot into (retch) Windows.
What distro are you using? And what is the problem(s) you're having?
I ask because there's a bunch of really smart I dividuals with extensive experience in Linux (not me, sorry) and from my experience, most people here love to help others troubleshoot Linux (along other OSs).
I created a dual boot to test the waters for a HTPC, and haven't had to go back once. But Linux mint did shit the bed just once recently where the wifi drivers died. Only solution was to connect a cable, download a kernel update, then back to 100%.
Finally got mine fixed, something in .config was breaking the desktop. Narrowed it down to a few items and just didn't restore those.
This needs more comments of the same acknowledgement of just how hilariously shit is fucked up that app devs spend time working against an OS
Using DRM to pry privacy out of this clusterfuck is chef's kiss