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TLDR:
Windows 11 v24H2 and beyond will have Recall installed on every system. Attempting to remove Recall will now break some file explorer features such as tabs.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Might be a stupid question but this requires a NPU right? I told some fellas about it and there response was something like does not matter because they have older hardware so it can't run anyway. So what happens to win 11 PCs with no NPU?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0, which in and of itself limits hardware ('cos who cares about ewaste, right?), but am unaware of anything hardware-specific for "AI".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

From https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/retrace-your-steps-with-recall-aa03f8a0-a78b-4b3e-b0a1-2eb8ac48701c

Your PC needs the following minimum system requirements for Recall:

  • A Copilot+ PC

That links to https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/copilot-plus-pcs#faq1

Copilot+ PCs are a new class of Windows 11 AI PCs that are powered by a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) – a specialised computer chip for AI-intensive processes like real-time translations and image generation – that can perform more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

So just the Surface thingies?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So what happens when a win 11 PC with no NPU gets updated to the version of windows with recall and recall is installed? Does it just sit dormant like it's deactivated because there are tons of win 11 PC that have no NPU.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I assume that's what happens, but you know what happens when you do that!

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[–] [email protected] 270 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Microsoft has been the single most effective marketing asset for GNU/Linux distributions in recent years.

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[–] [email protected] 164 points 2 months ago (18 children)

it was vastly easier to install linux mint than it is to figure out registry editing or whatever the fuck i'd need to avoid this

[–] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nah, mate, Linux is hard, you need to know what a Wayland is. In comparison, Windows is very simple and lightweight, you only have to run a dozen Powershell scripts and edit the registry weekly to get rid of ads.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.. "Windows is very simple and lightweight" 😂

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Do I look like I know what a Wayland is?"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just want a picture of a goddamn hotdog

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You sonova... Have an upvote

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking of changing my life (to require less of rot-affected computing) and moving to FreeBSD. Even Linux is hard in small ways, even if worlds easier than Windows. Would be OpenBSD if not for games.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mate you think BSD is better than Linux for ease-of-configuration -- in what fucking universe?!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welcome to Linux Mint mate!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

yes thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago

And some Windows update would "accidentally" undo that anyways.

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