855
Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster”
(www.theverge.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
855 points (99.1% liked)
Technology
59374 readers
3666 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Jesus Christ. All these requirements for something most people didn't ask for:
System requirements for Recall
Your PC needs the following minimum system requirements for Recall:
Sounds like the way around this is to make swap space take up the drive up to 24 GB. Then trim the swap space as you need it.
I know it says "to enable" but let's be real here. It's going to be a placebo switch.
Every update :
"Let's get Recall set up for you!!!!"
Microscopic "Maybe later" button in the USA...
Normal sized "No" button in Europe...
Europe keeps on proving that we can in fact regulate these companies, and it's fucking pathetic how the US and Canada don't.
If it's anything like the "sign into your Microsoft account to continue" bullshit, there will be no cancel button. You'll need to cast an archaic spell where you summon a spirit from the Netherworld, who then just gives you a 60 minute lecture on enshitification and why you should install Arch.
I'm pretty sure Windows doesn't have fixed-size swap. It uses pagefiles.
Edit: apparently pagefiles can be given a static size as well.
This can be specified manually to be static
Oh, neat! I had no idea. Still, the term "swap" would be incorrect.
A “swap” file is for holding pages of memory that have been swapped from RAM to disk.
At least hopefully companies will stop selling laptops with 8Gb of soldered ram.
That's a quite normal PC right? Not that I want it though lol good heavens.
When I think about it my daily only have 4 cores, oh no cant use it (I'm on Linux too, so sad ).
Or am I missing something with "copilot pc", does it have to have som special hardware? Asking out of morbid curiosity.
Yeah, it has to have certain specific types of CPU. They're making this a requirement for all Windows 11 machines if you want to keep receiving security updates. It's going to create a mountain of e-waste.
They're not amazing specs. All but the most budget of PCs sold in 2024 would have those specs.
It's notable as a required minimum though. There's an implication (not necessarily true) that at some times this feature may require a significant portion of those resources.
Like if your browser was burning away on 8 cores using 16g of RAM you'd notice.
Wait for them to find a way that everyone will run out and buy 1k+ laptops now. Disregarding privacy, most people only need Chromebooks nowadays.
I’ll just stick with my 4-core cpu then… Edit: is logical both core and threads?
Yes. A CPU has both physical cores and logical threads. These are both considered logical CPUs.
For example, if you ran cat /proc/cpuinfo on Linux you would see something like this (First processor is processor 0)
So your 4 core CPU likely has hyperthreading and would meet the requirements for Microsoft recall