Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it.

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    Man the first hackers to get their hands on that data are gonna get rich. Blackmail material, personal details, banking information, passwords, everything you could want.

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      It’s like those sextortion scam emails that say “we took pictures of you masturbating” except this time they’ll really extract some poor guy’s porn habits from their Recall database lmao

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    This this more of a byproduct of the design than anything.

    Its almost like this was a bad idea to begin with.

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      I’m using bazzite for now in lieu of that

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      Im excited to live in that world.

      Any game that relies on BS DRM like Denuvo that refuses to work for SteamOS can die in a fire.

      Most of the are shitty multiplayer games anyways.

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        Most of the distros run steam great out of the box. Our biggest problem is video card updates breaking crap. Linux Tech Tips scared a bunch of people off by not reading a warning message on an update then refusing to seek any help when something broke.

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      You don’t need SteamOS. It’s likely not going to solve any problems for you that aren’t solved elsewhere. It’ll be good for console-like devices, but just use a normal desktop distro for a desktop computer.

      I like Garuda Dragonized for gaming. It comes set up with a lot of gaming stuff already, and makes it easy to install a bunch of other gaming related packages you may want.

      Theres no need to wait for Valve. The problem is solved already.

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        eh? I tried gaming with lutris fairly recently and I’d call it far from solved.

        it’s in a better spot than a decade ago

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          What went wrong? I’ve had essentially no issues lately. I know there’s a handful of games with anti-cheats or DRMs that break (mostly out of China), but it’s pretty minor. Modding is also a bit of a pain and has to be done manually for now, but Nexus is working on a new mod manager that should work for all platforms eventually.

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    If I want to save something I’ll back it up myself. My attitude toward an OS remembering what I do: “We don’t know each other and I was never here.”

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    Although not the exact topic covered in the article, as you wouldn’t necessarily be sending sensitive information like that to other people, but it’s important to note that this means nothing you’ve sent before is safe.

    It’s not enough that from “now on” you don’t send anything you wouldn’t want Recall to capture, if you’ve already sent it and someone with Recall captures it then it’s compromised. It’s not just your own device that you need to worry about, it’s also everyone you might contact or have ever contacted.

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      Or you’re at work, or you need to collaborate with people who use Windows-only software. Or you bought a computer and it came with Windows, and you don’t know about installing other operating systems.

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        I hate that argument so much. It’s like picturing me incapable of choosing a car because I know nothing about them.

        “Why did you buy that garbage?” “It was the first vehicle at the first car dealer I found.”

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          If you go to different car dealers you find many different cars so you have to look into their pros and cons before choosing one. If you go to different computer shops you find Windows computers, Macs and Chromebooks. Macs are very expensive and Chromebooks are very limited, so you buy a Windows machine. People don’t even know what Linux is, and you can’t really blame them. They just want a machine to do everyday stuff with, and not to have to invest too much time or money in finding one.

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            I get that part. But then we have to do better. We can’t just stand there and be like: “It is what it is.” And with “we” I mean society as a whole: manufacturers, users, educators, governments (tbh, it is astonishingly weird that it is legal to force ship literal spyware with bought hardware), floss community etc.

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          In this analogy, no car dealer sells a Linux car and you’d have to rip out the engine yourself at home if you wanted one.

          That’s the perceived barrier to entry.

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            Don’t mention the hundred different engines out there, along with somethings you can do with one but not the other, so you have to research all of them. Also, you may have to install more stuff to get the engine to do other things you’re used to as well.

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      You have to be a complete idiot these days to think everyone is able to use another solution