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[-] unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 81 points 6 months ago

Don't worry, they'll kill the project after naming it Chrome Recall, Google Recall, Google Watcher, GWatch (with chat), Chat&Watch, Google Watch (new) in the span of a year.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 26 points 6 months ago

They will have 7 identical services but 6 will not support feature X

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago

Nah, they'll kill it after a year due to hard drive costs. Enough screenshots at a resolution high enough to know wtf you're looking at and still have vaguely usable data would be absurd.

I could see it rebranded for enterprise usage for businesses and schools though, at an extra cost.

[-] fluckx@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Windows: does something privacy invading bad

Google: why didn't I think of that? Hold my beer

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 months ago
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 30 points 6 months ago

I didn't think Linux was going to the the big thing but right now it is "winning" in the sense that it sucks the least.

[-] macattack@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

I'm going to continue buying Chromebooks because I can wipe the OS and put Linux on them.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 8 points 6 months ago

GrapheneOS logic lol

[-] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

yep, easily the best netbooks are chromebooks without chrome.

i wish we’d see another pixelbook tho. my battery poofed and nothing on the market comes close.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago
[-] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Why the project have an Elon Musk xitter in the readme?

[-] TipRing@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 17 points 6 months ago

The fact Linux folk prefer to count their market share at 2% rather than be associated with Chrome OS should tell you how far it went off track.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 months ago

It is Linux but it really isn't Linux. It violates pretty much every philosophy of Linux

[-] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 28 points 6 months ago

I still don't understand who the fuck asked for such a feature.

[-] M500@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago

It was the advertisers and government.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago
[-] SoulKaribou@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago

It's for your safety. Nothing will be collected without your consent. Obedience is freedom. Marry and reproduce.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

It was trendy

[-] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 3 points 6 months ago

People were encrypting too many things. Gotta give something to the hard working feds

[-] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 months ago

I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:

“I’m not going to talk about Recall, but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”

That's somehow worse than I imagined. I can at least understand being intentionally sinister, or overtly anti-privacy, but that level of delusion is somehow actually more terrifying.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 points 6 months ago

This is the company that couldn't understand why Google Glass failed so hard.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I can imagine those guys arguing about "legitimate interests" because data that isn't monetised is worthless or something.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 6 months ago

I know we're all thinking it, but people paying attention feel that way because... it’s creepy, it's not useful, it's not something they initiated, and they don't get a clear benefit from it.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 11 points 6 months ago

but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”

Well, why do it then?

[-] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 8 points 6 months ago

Can you like, not?

lol but MS just recalled Recall

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago

No they just turned if off by default. They can change that will an update

I know but that isn’t a snappy one-liner

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

Yes it is

They can change your settings anytime.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 6 months ago

WTF Google, did you really feel that gemini was such a threat that you had to usurp its name?

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago

Both users are angry.

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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