Comments by "" (@dingokidneys) on "Hacking Windows Recall To See Everything" video.

Oh I hope they don't retract it. It's just what is needed to jolt people out of their complaisance enough to actually move to a different OS. Maybe even companies and governments will recognise the massive risk and switch to something safer and more efficient.
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Moving to a new OS is rather like moving to a new country and learning to drive on the other side of the road. You basically know where everything is and how it works but things don't fall to hand quite as easily and it can be a bit scary at times. However, you quickly get used to it because the fundamental concepts remain the same.
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Scammers using remote admin tools who would have had to go through a long involved script to acquire someone's banking or other credentials will now be able to connect briefly, grab the Recall data, do some hand waving and say "I've fixed everything. You're good to go." then they can move on to another mark. This is an enormous productivity boost for scammers. If they also establish persistent remote access, as many of them do, they can then come back later, grab the next payload and be out of there before anyone notices because who knows maybe their banking credentials weren't in the first batch or maybe they opened a crypto currency account.
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@kenlen8029 I agree with you. Why throw a perfectly functional machine into e-waste or landfill? The machine I'm using now is 11 years old and runs Debian 12.5 perfectly. True, I don't game on it but it does everything I want to do pretty well. It's only when running a couple of heavyweight VMs that it starts to chug and I start to wish for newer hardware. Fun fact: though my 11yr old 'hardware' doesn't support Win11, I can run it fine in a VM with emulated hardware, just to see what the noise is about. It's far too bloated to actually use. I also have a 16 year old laptop that still runs Linux fine. I had Kali on it until I recently put FreeBSD on it for a laugh and both of those work OK on the ancient hardware. And all systems are fully patched and up-to-date. Once you move away from Microsoft OSs and you are no longer tied to someone else's upgrade schedule, there is a whole world of opportunities that opens up. I could never go back.
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@agibitable The average end user has changed a lot over the life of the "personal computer". For many people, their only computing device (away from work) is a smart phone. The new Windows OS is not going to tempt them to buy another machine if their phone suffices. Then you have PC gamers who have been a key support base for new hardware - and hence new OS - sales. They are becoming aware of the Steam Deck and will be hearing about other operating systems where they don't have to battle to get the best performance from their hardware. As more gamers take up gaming on Linux the demand for better game support for the platform will grow which will lead more game developers to support Linux which will lead to better performance and even more adoption by gamers who continually chase improved performance. For me, these factors indicate that past user behaviour is not necessarily a predictor of future user behaviour which is why I'm optimistic about the future of Linux in the broader population.
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Why did this comment make me think of Goatse? "Come and get it boys!"
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