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[-] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Windows: does something privacy invading bad

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

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

GrapheneOS logic lol

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

It was the advertisers and government.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It was trendy

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks 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?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

lol but MS just recalled Recall

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yes it is

They can change your settings anytime.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Can you like, not?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Both users are angry.

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