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Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all (mashable.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually want this feature, but I want to own the data. There are some OSS projects writing basically identical things but they aren't too popular (https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem seems to be the most popular I could find, but I wasn't able to get the cross-platform version running on my machine).

I also wrote the dumbest possible clone of this feature in bash, the basic data gathering steps are actually pretty easy to do. I'd build this into a real program but I've just been too busy lately with other projects: https://jackson.dev/post/cloning-windows-recall-in-30-lines-of-bash/

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah the idea is nice but not with Microsoft seeing the data.