Microsoft AI wants ALL of your storage

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This week Microsoft's new Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon chips were announced, Samsung got in trouble with the repair community and features like Recall will reserve 25GB - 150GB of your storage, and we got rumors of foldable Macbooks.

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Writing & Research: Tristan Rayner

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0:00 Intro
0:26 The Brief
1:58 Release Monitor
3:52 Microsoft Recall's memory problem
5:34 Samsung repair insanity
6:45 Foldable MacBooks

[raylopez]

Imagine going to a Samsung approved repair shop and them disassembling an unauthorized repair part, and then handing back your PC, after telling you "that's Samsung policy".

[ShadowHazy]

Apple with their classic "fck you" move. Who could have thought? It's not like they move to USB-C out of courtesy and generosity.

[lenowoo]

Microsoft online account used to be non mandatory for home user too. .

[ojhuk]

Of all the choices Microsoft have made recently, Recall is easily the one pushing me the hardest to move to another OS.

[drewsarkisian]

"[Qualcomm] Chips might be cheaper?" Prices were announced (leaked) and they are definitely cheaper.

[Rajamh]

Being able to turn Recall off is not really a guarantee tho. We're talking about Microsoft and Windows here.
First, they most definitely they'll hide this setting super deep so that most don't even find it (rather than freely give up their privacy) and secondly you just can't trust MS and Windows that it actually remains off. They do that all the time that you turn something "off" just so that it's automatically turned on again later, without any notification or whatever.
In Windows your options often aren't "yes" or "no" but instead "yes" and "bother me later".

[zarkozi]

4:00 way to kill SSD lifespan by endlessly spamming iops... Not to mention how creepy it is giving a huge corporation permission to screenshot everything you do on your (their ?) PC.

[bSixf]

Microsoft thought they can rehash your average school spyware into some AI gimmick.

[TJ-vhps]

6:46 hey Apple, I bet you can’t make a worse keyboard than that butterfly fiasco.
Tim Apple: Hold my cider….

[GoldenBeholden]

Unlike telemetry, Microsoft's Recall feature is such a big privacy nightmare and potential attack vector that I wouldn't trust it even when turned off. A single flag should not stand between me and my OS analysing my every action. That being said, I am still looking to buy a Snapdragon X laptop if they support Linux and I am able to use the NPU for data science.

[renzokukenleneyoyo]

Sailfish has been my daily driver since their very first release... cheers from Costa Rica!

[markc]

I'm having visions of when Microsoft search came out and it crippled local pc performance by indexing continuously in the background

[karliszemitis]

As someone working purely on windows (sadly) for years with very diverse tasks, I have yet to find any use for AI (besides one-off random easy task), and do not see any reason for this sort of hype. Recall option feels absolutely useless as well. Yes, once in a lifetime you can recall maybe successfully something random on your screen (unlikely though), but thats not a feature, that's a gimmick in my books.

[RaoBlackWellizedArman]

The option to turn it off is there FOR NOW.
OK, time to learn Linux, this time for real. 😢

[gaeborg]

I saw a comment weeks ago that getting sold was humane's vision all along

[Daivd]

Why do I feel like companies are just inventing things we don't need now?

[aorewole]

Bro said "Foldable Macbooks" as if Macbooks don't fold.

[sloanNYC]

Beating an M3 Air with 4 P (+ 4 E) cores by only 23% with 12 P cores isn't a brag... but so many OEMs are behind the chips they must be pretty good.

[Khorshel]

I am seriously considering moving to Linux.

[MindinViolet]

I have heard “AI” so many times the last week my head is spinning. I feel that corporations are just more interested in AI than I am. I wonder if the extreme emphasis on AI in product development and advertising may be out of touch with what consumers want.