In June 2024 I found your YT video. You expressed the CRAP of RECALL. It scared me, your video also told of Linux. I did a dual-boot with Linux and WindBlozes. In October I wiped the drive and ONLY installed Linux. I haven't looked back, I wish I had only found your videos sooner! My system did a WindBlozes 11 install and I dumped it for Linux immediately there so. THANKS to you and your YT channel!!!!! BRAVO!!!!
I think ill continue to take the advice if my grandmother who passed away a few years ago, who told me years ago to physically hand write my passwords in a composition book and keep it in my gun safe, and stay away from biometrics on my computer
I also write my passwords on pen and paper. They are randomly generated too, so yeah, it is a pain having to type them in, but I know that I'm safe. I don't trust password managers, session cookies, and I don't even trust the .txt files on my desktop. I got hacked a few months ago due to session cookie hijacking.
@@dee23gamingthe websites don't want you typing passwords in. They reject them everytime. And because you usually can't see your password as you type, supposedly for security, it's impossible to manually enter a good random long password. If you can do it it's good. I tried but it wasn't realistic. I got a good password manager, not last pass. It's cumbersome but it's working.
Once I build a new PC, I'm going Linux Mint. Just built my sister a pc over Christmas and put Linux mint cinnamon 22 on it and it runs great and plays and runs everything I would normally want to run. Tried a handful of games from my steam library and they all run great. Had a bit of a headache trying to get a tp link usb wifi adapter driver to work, so I just put the pcie wifi card from my pc into hers and it works right out of the box. If recall is recalling credit card info, that is a huge security risk and is grounds in itself to ditch windows not to mention all the bloat and spying MS is doing.
Getting a USB and installing a linux distro with a dual boot is dead simple for anyone who would be motivated or intelligent enough to learn linux in the first place. There's no need for computer retailers to pre-install some random, proprietary or commerciailzed version of linux that might well put off a newbie from ever trying linux again.
@petem.3719 I disagree. I want it to work out of the box without trying to get the finger biometrics to work or the RGB keyboard lighting to cycle ect. I have worked with many Linux distributions that had to be tweaked for laptops and the Linux distribution didn't work because the hardware was too new and the drivers were not developed yet so yeah, pre-installed all the way and I can add distrobox or KVM/QEMU VM later for my particular flavor.
Of course, Micro$oft is getting worse. Eventually, I will have to switch to Linux. I have been thinking about this for a while and it appears to be time to start the transition. Still running Win 10, absolutely no plans to use Win 11 (or later). This channel has been good in priming me for the change.
The 2 major things that hold certain people on Windows is (1) Video games that need to run the anti-cheat (blocked from playing on Linux); (2) The company you work for requires it.
There are ways to still run Windows 10 without internet access - all you need is a router. That method lets you de-clutter MS Windows 10 and have a shocking fast system that never gets re-cluttered. Further info on request, and Happy New Year to you.
15:30 - so lemme see if I'm understanding this right. They're gonna know I was on the hub, or at the bay. But they're not gonna know it's me. But they're gonna have my IP address... yeah... this sounds sketchy as hell.
When reading the letter from MS at around the 15:20 mark, you mention notifying MS about erroneous data collection through the "Facebook Hub" where the letter actually says "Feedback Hub." I was trying to figure out why MS would require users to use Facebook to report issues, but it appears that isn't actually the case.
honestly, at this point i am waiting for a law to force those companies to open their source codes. this is the only way to stop stuff like this from breaking. we can't expect their AI will catch every sensitive situation, and if an attack goes trough. it goes trough. imo, there is A LOT of stuff that needs to be done in regards to IP, and public domain regulations. we need them ASAP.
There needs to be an incognito mode for users to easily turn on so users can do sensitive things without Recall recording it. I know that will never be enough for viewers of this channel but it's a start for the typical windows user.
Unless you have the memory span of a gold fish, there's no legitimate reason to use recall. Of course, if your memory is that bad you've got bigger problems to worry about.
@@HOBBS-4 Which is hella frustrating, since Respawn basically admitted that it doesn't work when they banned Linux users from playing Apex Legends. People really need to actually research what can be done on Linux and how easy it is to use. It isn't anywhere near what it was a decade ago.
Aready dual boot Windows 10 with Ubuntu. I had plans upgrading to Windows 11 in 2026, but now it does not appeal to me with all this recall or any other privacy invading features at all. So the probability of Windows 10 being my final Windows is very high.
Why does M$ not give the option of having a Windows Recall toggle option and a status icon on screen? Some people might need it for a while and then would want it off.
I had already made up my mind years ago what I was going to do, long before all this Recall nonsense. Microsoft told me that Windows 10 would become End Of Life - but I couldn't have Windows 11 either (not that I actually wanted it). Well I wasn't just going to throw away and replace three perfectly good computers just because Lord Almighty Microsoft said so. One of those machines runs Windows 10 offline. It will stay running Windows 10 offline. The other two are in the process of becoming Linux machines. This Recall nonsense totally confirmed that I made the right decision. Recall is not only a privacy and security nightmare, it also is of no possible use to me - or most other users. So who does benefit from it? Why, Microsoft, of course! And to anyone claiming that it is only available on Copilot + PCs, nobody else has to worry, I say, "Oh yeah!? You mean "At Present!" ". I've already found unwelcome additions such as Copilot installed on one of my online machines after an update, not to mention a whole bunch of settings that I had disabled mysteriously turned themselves back on. Who's to say that Recall won't be snuck in during some update? Well for me it won't even be a factor. All of my machines will be totally out of Microsoft's reach.
At 4:59 I shouldn't have to disable this, or any of the telemetry they're forcing on us. I should have to opt-in to all of it and it should all be off by default. They're also going to push it to every PC eventually, once they've forced basically everyone onto 11. That is coming, and they'll likely stealth install it.
Every large business, company, organization, institution, school is going to turn off Recall. No IT/IT Security department is going to let any employee or machine to have Recall enabled. With that said, who is this feature for?
There is no way MS will leave this to npu only pc's I call bs on this...... Recall is not an AI it is a screenshot app the AI is copilot..... I stand by my claim..... Recall is screenshot software..... Plain and simple..... This, can run on any pc or laptop and does not require an AI to run.... I do not know why this is so hard for people to figure out.....
Yea, it's just a screenshot software with a timer based control system daemon/system.sys file and not in anyway shape or form of anything A.I. based. No NPU is needed at all for this. I can do this on my Gentoo system in the span of perhaps 1 minute to setup.
Your missing the point.... The AI does not even have to do anything with it..... The mere fact that it is being captured at all is the whole issue in the first place.... Who else has access to it? Forget the AI, the AI will just make getting hold of the info that much easier, but, what backend access has MS already got to the OS, what data is being sent off whithout your knowladge..... That is and should be the question.... Do you trust MS when they say "that info is only yours, for your use"....... I don't......
@@GapRecordingsNamibia I'm saying the "AI" part does use the NPU, and the "AI" is what interprets whats in those screenshots. I dislike and distrust Recall just as much as everyone else here don't worry. I'm just pointing that out is all. xD
The pin is secure because it is valid on that one machine only. A bad actor will have to have access to it and your pin. The pin will not work anywhere else. A password will work anywhere. You do have the option of choosing alphanumeric pin as well so you could just use a password anyway. At its core, it is 2 factory. Something you know, the pin. Something you have, that one PC where the pin is valid.
My password only works on that machine, too...I might use a different password somewhere else...you see, this is why the computer SHOULD NOT use cloud authentication for the local files.
It's one of those things that will constantly require Windows Update ... How many other software companies are in the plans of doing the same with their software? I would question this also!
Just goes to show that few users actually read their Windows 11 Microsoft User Agreement which clearly states that Microsoft has proprietary access to your computer at all times, and can remotely access, modify, and remove content without notification to the computer's owner or user. Is why W10 is last Microsoft product we will use 🤨
Above comment from someone who has used Microsoft products since they went public. But doesn't see a future with Microsoft due to it's ongoing abuse of it's users.
Still on 23H2, No Recall, No Bitlocker on by default. Those 2 things desroys 24H2. Can't wait to see trust suits over that one. Government going after Google, why not Microsoft? Also, when will they uninstall programs if they decide to unsupport them.
I use Linux for everything except playing WOW. I am in the US, but often shop in the UK over the internet, which might not be limited by Recall. Something else to keep in mind is that if I had your Windows Home computer in hand, I would NOT need your password to access any part of your hard drive. Something to think about. My sensitive information is encrypted with Linux Mint, but the way Microsoft does it is unreliable and buggy at best.
i suggest that everyone buy one oif these then return it for there money back. This will cause a large number of retailers to take notice refuse to sell theses systems.
I am not sure how to properly express this... I want it to be explicit but try to feel me here... Ffs what is a sensitive data filter? I understand this should filter card numbers, social insurance numbers, yadi yada, yet you suggest it may be at least applicable per specific site like amazon and i say no... It's either fully functional or i don't accept it at all... If in any universe i wanted recall running so i can remember, i would not adjust my habits to shop e.g. only on amazon just because i would feel good that i have recall and i'm shopping on amazon so in terms of privacy i am safe... Any utuber should pay attention what he or she says, because microsoft will start pushing recall out with an argument that they have fully working sensitive data filter on certain pages.... You just need to adjust a tiny bit your habits in terms of computer usage
Oh and yes... In no universe i would believe that sensitive data filter will reach 100% effectiveness... It's just not possible due to endless amounts of local eshops, government sites etc... these are very basic things said out loud, but they should be said out loud and our mindsets adjusted so we never give an opportunity to microsoft to counter with argument that 'we agreed to something at least'
Normal people are not going to go out of their way to run a bunch of hacks to make Recall run on their x86 PC just to be scared of it. It only runs when an supported ARM-based NPU is detected on the system.
I have one laptop with Win11 for my gaming, and I've got it de-telemetried and debloated with Chris Titus' script. It makes Window tolerable and supposedly safe, and also deletes Recall. It will be used after each and every update because yes I've had those unexplainable settings reversions many times over the years.
I stopped using my computer and it's can't be recalled because I let the battery drain to nothing and unplugged it and separated the battery from the computer now im saving up for a Linux computer
I'm surprised that so many people are still surprised...
human ignorance will never stop to amaze me !!
@@House-Metal-Punk-And-Your-Mom ..just look at how many people voted for Trump...
@@mchenrynick Nah. Ignorance is if you voted for the dementia patient and/or the cackling hyena. BTW, your TDS is showing.
🤣🤣🤣
In June 2024 I found your YT video. You expressed the CRAP of RECALL. It scared me, your video also told of Linux. I did a dual-boot with Linux and WindBlozes. In October I wiped the drive and ONLY installed Linux. I haven't looked back, I wish I had only found your videos sooner! My system did a WindBlozes 11 install and I dumped it for Linux immediately there so. THANKS to you and your YT channel!!!!! BRAVO!!!!
This kind of news make me happy that I switched completely to Linux some 8 years ago.
the frog is slowly boiling on the pan, not noticing the temperature raising
haha great analogy
Hah.. the water's been warm for decades. In the USA we noticed a sudden jump in temperature with the Patriot Act.
I think ill continue to take the advice if my grandmother who passed away a few years ago, who told me years ago to physically hand write my passwords in a composition book and keep it in my gun safe, and stay away from biometrics on my computer
Smart Lady, I have been doing similar for many years.
I also write my passwords on pen and paper. They are randomly generated too, so yeah, it is a pain having to type them in, but I know that I'm safe. I don't trust password managers, session cookies, and I don't even trust the .txt files on my desktop. I got hacked a few months ago due to session cookie hijacking.
@@dee23gamingthe websites don't want you typing passwords in. They reject them everytime. And because you usually can't see your password as you type, supposedly for security, it's impossible to manually enter a good random long password. If you can do it it's good. I tried but it wasn't realistic. I got a good password manager, not last pass. It's cumbersome but it's working.
@@dee23gaming takes 5 seconds to type 20 letters LOL
I'm dual booting. Windows for gaming and Linux Mint for everthing else.
@@devante614 why most Freebsd, Linux and haiku OS has gaming support you don't need to run trash windows
Unless you do competitive gaming which requires certain anti-cheat software, you may not even need Windows for gaming anymore.
Once I build a new PC, I'm going Linux Mint. Just built my sister a pc over Christmas and put Linux mint cinnamon 22 on it and it runs great and plays and runs everything I would normally want to run. Tried a handful of games from my steam library and they all run great. Had a bit of a headache trying to get a tp link usb wifi adapter driver to work, so I just put the pcie wifi card from my pc into hers and it works right out of the box. If recall is recalling credit card info, that is a huge security risk and is grounds in itself to ditch windows not to mention all the bloat and spying MS is doing.
I recommend Zorin OS
OCR = Optical Character Recognition not Reading
I want PC Operating System choices in retail space!
You can choose Home or Professional 🤣
@disklamer 😂
Getting a USB and installing a linux distro with a dual boot is dead simple for anyone who would be motivated or intelligent enough to learn linux in the first place. There's no need for computer retailers to pre-install some random, proprietary or commerciailzed version of linux that might well put off a newbie from ever trying linux again.
@petem.3719 I disagree. I want it to work out of the box without trying to get the finger biometrics to work or the RGB keyboard lighting to cycle ect. I have worked with many Linux distributions that had to be tweaked for laptops and the Linux distribution didn't work because the hardware was too new and the drivers were not developed yet so yeah, pre-installed all the way and I can add distrobox or KVM/QEMU VM later for my particular flavor.
Of course, Micro$oft is getting worse. Eventually, I will have to switch to Linux. I have been thinking about this for a while and it appears to be time to start the transition. Still running Win 10, absolutely no plans to use Win 11 (or later). This channel has been good in priming me for the change.
The 2 major things that hold certain people on Windows is (1) Video games that need to run the anti-cheat (blocked from playing on Linux); (2) The company you work for requires it.
There are ways to still run Windows 10 without internet access - all you need is a router. That method lets you de-clutter MS Windows 10 and have a shocking fast system that never gets re-cluttered. Further info on request, and Happy New Year to you.
Talk is cheap, time to Doooo!!
@@mchenrynick play other games, tell your company to provide you a work laptop. Thats what I did.
@@HOBBS-4 I don't have this issue, but my friend does....
15:30 - so lemme see if I'm understanding this right. They're gonna know I was on the hub, or at the bay. But they're not gonna know it's me. But they're gonna have my IP address... yeah... this sounds sketchy as hell.
I have always heard it called Optical Character Recognition. Small detail but I am a bit OCD sorry.
Not only does Recall use CPU resources and waste storage space but now it opens you to identity theft. This is awful!!
When reading the letter from MS at around the 15:20 mark, you mention notifying MS about erroneous data collection through the "Facebook Hub" where the letter actually says "Feedback Hub." I was trying to figure out why MS would require users to use Facebook to report issues, but it appears that isn't actually the case.
honestly, at this point i am waiting for a law to force those companies to open their source codes.
this is the only way to stop stuff like this from breaking. we can't expect their AI will catch every sensitive situation, and if an attack goes trough. it goes trough.
imo, there is A LOT of stuff that needs to be done in regards to IP, and public domain regulations. we need them ASAP.
What an amazing feature for hackers!
Happy New Year Joto
That j word you typed 😂 in Spanish is means lgbtq 😂
There needs to be an incognito mode for users to easily turn on so users can do sensitive things without Recall recording it. I know that will never be enough for viewers of this channel but it's a start for the typical windows user.
Swapped 3 weeks ago. Very few reasons to boot into windows. Have gravitated to pikaOS in the GNOME desktop environment after some hopping.
Unless you have the memory span of a gold fish, there's no legitimate reason to use recall. Of course, if your memory is that bad you've got bigger problems to worry about.
Windows users will happily accept recall just so long as they can play their games. This is why M$ push forward with this.
Which is why it was easy for me to switch to Linux. I don't build rigs to play games.
its called conditioned dependence...
Some brag about needing anti cheat, as if it were a good thing, a badge of honor. These people are addicted, like drug addicts to drugs.
Most people _still_ don't know about this. Keep spreading the word!
@@HOBBS-4 Which is hella frustrating, since Respawn basically admitted that it doesn't work when they banned Linux users from playing Apex Legends.
People really need to actually research what can be done on Linux and how easy it is to use. It isn't anywhere near what it was a decade ago.
Aready dual boot Windows 10 with Ubuntu. I had plans upgrading to Windows 11 in 2026, but now it does not appeal to me with all this recall or any other privacy invading features at all. So the probability of Windows 10 being my final Windows is very high.
Why does M$ not give the option of having a Windows Recall toggle option and a status icon on screen? Some people might need it for a while and then would want it off.
The only use case for Windows Recall is if your suffering from dementia or anterograde amnesia.
I will continue to advocate for Linux, freebsd and hiaku os due to windows doing this garbage.
I had already made up my mind years ago what I was going to do, long before all this Recall nonsense. Microsoft told me that Windows 10 would become End Of Life - but I couldn't have Windows 11 either (not that I actually wanted it). Well I wasn't just going to throw away and replace three perfectly good computers just because Lord Almighty Microsoft said so.
One of those machines runs Windows 10 offline. It will stay running Windows 10 offline. The other two are in the process of becoming Linux machines.
This Recall nonsense totally confirmed that I made the right decision. Recall is not only a privacy and security nightmare, it also is of no possible use to me - or most other users. So who does benefit from it? Why, Microsoft, of course! And to anyone claiming that it is only available on Copilot + PCs, nobody else has to worry, I say, "Oh yeah!? You mean "At Present!" ". I've already found unwelcome additions such as Copilot installed on one of my online machines after an update, not to mention a whole bunch of settings that I had disabled mysteriously turned themselves back on. Who's to say that Recall won't be snuck in during some update? Well for me it won't even be a factor. All of my machines will be totally out of Microsoft's reach.
Really nice to power on a system and not have to worry about it doing everything in its power to spy on me.
Yeah. I just boot my Arch btw and only the packages I want are working.
Go Go Gadget Dystopia!
At 4:59 I shouldn't have to disable this, or any of the telemetry they're forcing on us. I should have to opt-in to all of it and it should all be off by default. They're also going to push it to every PC eventually, once they've forced basically everyone onto 11. That is coming, and they'll likely stealth install it.
Now that the holidays are over, time to continue my migration to Linux.
'Windows' had great potential as an OS. What, in particular, led it falling by the wayside in a number of respects I wonder ?
recall or intellectual theft is not identical???
Every large business, company, organization, institution, school is going to turn off Recall. No IT/IT Security department is going to let any employee or machine to have Recall enabled. With that said, who is this feature for?
For the majority of users who rarely if ever read their User Agreement with Microsoft....😏
There is no way MS will leave this to npu only pc's I call bs on this...... Recall is not an AI it is a screenshot app the AI is copilot..... I stand by my claim..... Recall is screenshot software..... Plain and simple..... This, can run on any pc or laptop and does not require an AI to run.... I do not know why this is so hard for people to figure out.....
Yea, it's just a screenshot software with a timer based control system daemon/system.sys file and not in anyway shape or form of anything A.I. based. No NPU is needed at all for this. I can do this on my Gentoo system in the span of perhaps 1 minute to setup.
The screenshots is not the AI, its what the AI *does* with the screenshots to search things.
Your missing the point....
The AI does not even have to do anything with it.....
The mere fact that it is being captured at all is the whole issue in the first place....
Who else has access to it? Forget the AI, the AI will just make getting hold of the info that much easier, but, what backend access has MS already got to the OS, what data is being sent off whithout your knowladge.....
That is and should be the question.... Do you trust MS when they say "that info is only yours, for your use"....... I don't......
@@GapRecordingsNamibia I'm saying the "AI" part does use the NPU, and the "AI" is what interprets whats in those screenshots.
I dislike and distrust Recall just as much as everyone else here don't worry. I'm just pointing that out is all. xD
@@GapRecordingsNamibia *You're
Ok, but why not use something like PAY PAL or some other agency that orders/bills in your name?
"Isn't that illegal?"-some funny person.
I do NOT want this "feature"!
and they called the ability to turn off recall from the menu in the control panel a bug
It is a malware.
The pin is secure because it is valid on that one machine only. A bad actor will have to have access to it and your pin. The pin will not work anywhere else. A password will work anywhere. You do have the option of choosing alphanumeric pin as well so you could just use a password anyway.
At its core, it is 2 factory. Something you know, the pin. Something you have, that one PC where the pin is valid.
My password only works on that machine, too...I might use a different password somewhere else...you see, this is why the computer SHOULD NOT use cloud authentication for the local files.
I couldn't help but think of Skynet and I don't mean the telescope network.
Reboot? Reboot? Just give MS the BOOT!
if only every company's first impulse wasn't to weaponize AI against the user...
Optical character recognition
The only way to remove Recall from Windows, is to switch to Linux.
It's one of those things that will constantly require Windows Update ... How many other software companies are in the plans of doing the same with their software? I would question this also!
Happy New Year Tom! Good to see that your keeping on truckin' [my first comment of 2025].
so microsoft should probably get banned from credit processing by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard council
here and ready! Maybe I'll just switch :(
If you got enough internal storage, you can dualboot
class action lawsuit please if microsoft keeps turning stuff back on that was turned off
Just goes to show that few users actually read their Windows 11 Microsoft User Agreement which clearly states that Microsoft has proprietary access to your computer at all times, and can remotely access, modify, and remove content without notification to the computer's owner or user. Is why W10 is last Microsoft product we will use 🤨
Above comment from someone who has used Microsoft products since they went public. But doesn't see a future with Microsoft due to it's ongoing abuse of it's users.
Winblows 10 is no better and does the same crap. 7 was the end of the M$ line for me.
Soon Windows may have facial recognition only to sign or a finger print. It won't be long.
Intel's new Core Ultra CPUs that can be found on laptops right now have NPUs, and AMD will soon follow suit. This is NOT all ARM.
Obviously most people don't pay attention to these things or Microsoft and Google would stop doing these crazy invasive things.
Still on 23H2,
No Recall, No Bitlocker on by default. Those 2 things desroys 24H2. Can't wait to see trust suits over that one. Government going after Google, why not Microsoft? Also, when will they uninstall programs if they decide to unsupport them.
I use Linux for everything except playing WOW. I am in the US, but often shop in the UK over the internet, which might not be limited by Recall.
Something else to keep in mind is that if I had your Windows Home computer in hand, I would NOT need your password to access any part of your hard drive. Something to think about. My sensitive information is encrypted with Linux Mint, but the way Microsoft does it is unreliable and buggy at best.
i suggest that everyone buy one oif these then return it for there money back. This will cause a large number of retailers to take notice refuse to sell theses systems.
A grand recall lol
I am not sure how to properly express this... I want it to be explicit but try to feel me here... Ffs what is a sensitive data filter? I understand this should filter card numbers, social insurance numbers, yadi yada, yet you suggest it may be at least applicable per specific site like amazon and i say no... It's either fully functional or i don't accept it at all... If in any universe i wanted recall running so i can remember, i would not adjust my habits to shop e.g. only on amazon just because i would feel good that i have recall and i'm shopping on amazon so in terms of privacy i am safe... Any utuber should pay attention what he or she says, because microsoft will start pushing recall out with an argument that they have fully working sensitive data filter on certain pages.... You just need to adjust a tiny bit your habits in terms of computer usage
Oh and yes... In no universe i would believe that sensitive data filter will reach 100% effectiveness... It's just not possible due to endless amounts of local eshops, government sites etc... these are very basic things said out loud, but they should be said out loud and our mindsets adjusted so we never give an opportunity to microsoft to counter with argument that 'we agreed to something at least'
If you're a Libby pirate use this to save the ebooks . Just don't put your credit card number on the device .
Just move to linux if you are not tied to W for work or something, end of headache
Normal people are not going to go out of their way to run a bunch of hacks to make Recall run on their x86 PC just to be scared of it. It only runs when an supported ARM-based NPU is detected on the system.
I have one laptop with Win11 for my gaming, and I've got it de-telemetried and debloated with Chris Titus' script. It makes Window tolerable and supposedly safe, and also deletes Recall. It will be used after each and every update because yes I've had those unexplainable settings reversions many times over the years.
Trying to make Windows safe and tolerable is like trying to polish a turd. It's impossible.
Winblows11 is a virus you need to get off your Computer. Linux can play 7000 games, I'm sure you can find one or two.
Something from Microsoft is insecure? Shirley you jest.
Buy n large.... amazon ...lol
typical micro$lop
Yep
Nobody asked for this malware.
For God's sake get to the point!
Is your attention span really that short? Cry harder.
I stopped using my computer and it's can't be recalled because I let the battery drain to nothing and unplugged it and separated the battery from the computer now im saving up for a Linux computer