TL;DR: Microsoft is working on a system called Recall that wants to record literally every action you take on your system ever, analyze it with muh AI, and store it in a database. The database then sits with no hint of security on your hard drive, making it available to basically anyone with access, even remotely. Accessing that database as an attacker (whether it's a Romanian script kiddy trying to get to your crypto, or the Feds, or whoever else) is a question of a couple of lines of code. The street shitters who now compose Microsoft's management and workforce see no issues with this, because they're inbred 80IQ retards with falsified credentials. In reality it's a security catastrophe.
It hasn't been rolled out yet, but it absolutely will be. Disable it, and then switch to Linux.
Linux Mint is one of the most popular choice for beginners. Otherwise, you could also pick one of the most popular (includes Mint, but also Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.), since they are popular, it's has good support and likely to have fixed many issues already with most systems.
TL;DR: Microsoft is working on a system called Recall that wants to record literally every action you take on your system ever, analyze it with muh AI, and store it in a database. The database then sits with no hint of security on your hard drive, making it available to basically anyone with access, even remotely. Accessing that database as an attacker (whether it's a Romanian script kiddy trying to get to your crypto, or the Feds, or whoever else) is a question of a couple of lines of code. The street shitters who now compose Microsoft's management and workforce see no issues with this, because they're inbred 80IQ retards with falsified credentials. In reality it's a security catastrophe.
It hasn't been rolled out yet, but it absolutely will be. Disable it, and then switch to Linux.
If you prefer a video, here's Mental Outlaw going over it: https://preservetube.com/watch?v=oSBDkPxivuA
And here's an article from yesterday saying Microsoft is aware of this insane clusterfuck and sees no issue with it: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/06/microsoft_research_recall/
Any distro suggestions? I need something that's relatively newbie friendly and has good community support..
Linux Mint is one of the most popular choice for beginners. Otherwise, you could also pick one of the most popular (includes Mint, but also Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.), since they are popular, it's has good support and likely to have fixed many issues already with most systems.