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Elon Musk Suggests Shifting 'Consumer Desktops To Linux' As Satya Nadella Promotes Microsoft's New Windows AI Feature 'Recall' With Photographic Memory
MSN ^ | 5/21/24

Posted on 05/22/2024 7:21:25 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has once again targeted Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) after a clip of Satya Nadella surfaced on social media talking about new AI capabilities in Windows PCs.

What Happened: In an interview with Wall Street Journal which was made public on Monday, Nadella spoke about new AI capabilities of Microsoft’s Copilot+PCs with Qualcomm chips and AI Windows.

One of the features was “Recall,” which enables Windows to take constant screenshots of the user’s screen and use a generative AI model to process the data, making it searchable.

The clip from the video was shared by a user on X, formerly Twitter, and it sparked a strong reaction. Musk also replied saying, “Maybe it is time to move consumer desktops to Linux.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: ai; elonmusk; linux; microsoft; privacy; spying; windows
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To: ProgressingAmerica
I use Linux and Windows daily. Some of the best hardware/software engineering packages are Windows only. I don't see that changing.
21 posted on 05/22/2024 8:09:40 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I was just telling a brother yesterday that I was considering doing just that - dumping windows and getting Linux.


22 posted on 05/22/2024 8:20:10 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: xoxox
Been meaning to “transition” myself but I Excel is far superior to anything that attempts to ape it.

You are right. LibreOffice crashes on my larger spreadsheets. There is Excel for MacOS. I am dual boot, using the Windows boot for FileMaker Pro, WordPerfect and Excel. Linux for everything else.

There had been WordPerfect for Linux, but Corel fell on hard times and Microsoft paid them off to keep them off Linux, and be vey controllable opposition in the Windows market.
23 posted on 05/22/2024 8:35:07 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: dagunk

Thx...I was going to look for a new desktop, but maybe I will try what you have done. Any particular desktop I should look for? Brand, memory, etc...I am not a techie.


24 posted on 05/22/2024 9:17:06 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the good times when people starved)
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To: ProgressingAmerica; All

A kinda dumb question...would our financial stuff be safer using Linux. (I might be able to convince hub to switch, if that is the case)


25 posted on 05/22/2024 9:19:23 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Climate cultists think we should go back to the good times when people starved)
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To: DEPcom
potentially allowing government and other organizations to access them. In this scenario, privacy may be compromised.

Not potentially. Purposely.

26 posted on 05/22/2024 9:21:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to kill us. Plan to avoid this.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I’ll send you a cell phone number via freepmail


27 posted on 05/22/2024 11:09:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Bookmark


28 posted on 05/22/2024 11:21:05 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I’m assuming that my Windows 7 is safe from this... Crossed fingers.


29 posted on 05/22/2024 11:23:53 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: xoxox

“Excel is far superior to anything that attempts to ape it.”

But not as good as Lotus was. Like Word is far inferior to WordPerfect for DOS. (When WP transitioned to Windows format it lost a lot of functionality.)


30 posted on 05/22/2024 11:27:01 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Maybe he can convert his Tesla business to a Linux desktop business. The plant is already in Texas. Business opportunity!


31 posted on 05/22/2024 11:48:34 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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To: Lazamataz

I have been using Linux with a virtual Windows install since 2007. I use multiple screens on one monitor and screen 4 is always Windoze. It loads automatically on system startup.

The other option is a dual boot system where you select Linux or Windoze on boot.


32 posted on 05/22/2024 2:41:29 PM PDT by Semper Vigilantis (XX = Female XY = Male. No surgery can change that.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
But not as good as Lotus was. Like Word is far inferior to WordPerfect for DOS. (When WP transitioned to Windows format it lost a lot of functionality.)

My absolute favorite feature of WP back in the day was "reveal codes". (F7 IIRC). It was a Godsend for fixing formatting issues. It's one of the few features that I'd really love to see in OpenOffice.

33 posted on 05/22/2024 9:11:01 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Wuli

These companies ain’t getting any better or any less woke either.

Today is the best day to get started.


34 posted on 05/22/2024 9:30:22 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: goodnesswins

System76 specializes in Linux-specific desktops and laptops if you’re in the market anyways.

I’m often times spending-money-averse so consider that when reading into my posts. I know others don’t do the same.

One good thing that will come from a Linux-centric vendor would be they would tailor to your needs to some extent, and all the hardware will be ensured to work out of the box without any question.

I look at it an say $3 thumb drive or $500-1000+ new machine - I’ll always try the thumb drive first. It’s only a mindset. :-)


35 posted on 05/22/2024 9:35:56 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: goodnesswins

Just curious do mean something like Quickbooks? Or purely web-based stuff like online banking/investing/etc?

Honestly digital financial safety is probably the same, unless you are habitually clicking links in your email inbox and downloading the file that’s lookhere.pdf.exe. Those exe files simply won’t work at all on Linux. In that sense, Linux is nominally more secure.

At least for now, anti-virus and malware software ($ub$cription$) are not firm requirements on Linux. But that’s bound to change sooner rather than later given the platform is used by more people than ever before - and it is increasing. Keeping current with the security updates and not looking at shady sites, basically good common sense user practices will likely do more than the platform itself. I’m just being honest.

VPN providers, such as NordVPN, are more and more incorporating support for Linux. It’s not universal yet, but it’s going to be fairly soon.


36 posted on 05/22/2024 9:45:36 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: Lazamataz

Easy now, we will get there. We should also consider using Zoom, there is a lot to gain by desktop sharing. However, we should at least collect some information and determine what you have tried in the past - and try some new things first.

Partly if nothing else, I know that there are other Linux users around here. I will keep the lead to help you however you need but there is surely a safety of numbers that its not well advised to simply abandon.

Have you ever tried a live boot with Linux on a USB stick? It’s an extremely simple process.


37 posted on 05/22/2024 9:49:50 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
Your Win7 will be safe from this "Recall", however you will run into many other issues because Win7 is unsupported.

Any machine that can run Windows 7 will run faster with Linux on it.

38 posted on 05/22/2024 9:53:33 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

“you will run into many other issues because Win7 is unsupported.”

So “they” warned me back in 2020. For me, that only helped things. No more pushing through updates, as every update before that seemed to make matters worse.

I recall only one instance where having Windows 7 created an issue. I absolutely could not do what I needed to do. I’m sure that will be the case more often as time passes; we shall see. Hubby has 10 on his computers, and he’s forever having problems.


39 posted on 05/23/2024 1:17:25 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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To: zeugma

WP for Windows still has Reveal Codes, but it’s more convoluted than with DOS.

In WP, a Table was powerful in that it was a basic spreadsheet and you could do calculations in it.

You could “block” (”select” in Word) a section of a document, and save that section as a new document.

In the DOS version, on the same line, you could do justify left, justify center, and justify right using keystrokes. When it went to Windows it lost that functionality. A far as I know, the only way to do that is to create a 3-column table and hide the gridlines.

Dot leaders made sense. Headers and footers were easier than with Windows version, and 1,000 times easier than with Word.

In Word Perfect they have a justification setting called “all”. It is like full justification, but it will make every line take up the full width between the margins. This is great if you want to spread 1 line across a page or cell.

I despise Word.


40 posted on 05/23/2024 1:41:14 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Navarro didn't kill himself.)
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