I mean who is surprised at this point?
Who even wants this? What good is it? I see no use case.
Great for mining data to use in the next iteration of ChatGPT
Microsoft: trust us bro!
Set furry porn as your desktop.
How has it taken them this long to publish the story real frontline tech journos
Don’t worry, DRM-ed content isn’t recorded, so big companies’ IP is protected.
If the data stays on a local device why is drm protection even necessary 🤔
because you’re not “allowed” (in some places you are) to copy stuff you paid for.
Because it is locally accessible and could be distributed elsewhere. I guess? I’m not sure what kind of copyrights can be broken by a screenshot in the first place.
Always keep Netflix open and playing to stay safe?
I think only the player is blocked, and would be shown in the screenshots as a black rectangle
So it’s not a new feature. Since windows 95 print screen can’t screenshot videos for technical issues. Instead of fixing the bug they’re promoting it to feature
It’s not a bug, it’s 110% intentional and not only for the windows default screenshot utility. The whole pipeline is built in such a way to prevent you from taking screenshots or capturing video of a DRM protected player.
Even in Linux, afaik, you can’t simply take screenshots or record a Netflix movie playing in the browser. Yes there are ways, but not with the default applications (you need to break the encryption)
I remember that in the windows 9x age I tried taking screenshots of the matrix avi and all I got was a black rectangle. I assumed that it was how the graphics worked as when pasted in paint it would act like a “hole” where if you moved the window it stayed in the place of the video player. Like if it’s not in the graphic buffer because it’s an accelerated directx video or something like that. Not an expert and also more than 20 years passed and my memory is wonky
Make Mario my desktop background and stay protected forever by the holy power of Nintendo’s lawyers.
Kirbo will step in with Luigi with a cross.
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As a non-Windows-user I see that as a good thing. LLMs are not going away - but that kind of nonsense at least will make sure all PCs will eventually have cheap and reasonably fast AI acceleration. Which is required for killing off centrally hosted LLMs (plus nvidias cash grabbing)
Hahahahahahahahahaha. Just like cryptos obsesion gave us cheap crypto chips in all personal computers? Get real dude, this is just a way for them to steal even more data from people. Nothing good would come from this. Quite the oposite, we will see yet another price increase in hardware because all AI dumbasses will hoard them yet again. Don’t forget these are the same morons that were pushing for cryptos and nfcs hahaha. This is people who believe in magic free money, too bad they someyimes get it because out societey is built by retards. I really can’t stand people looking at the possitive at this dissaster …
The NPUs are good, provided that they can be used the same way dedicated GPUs are used: By 3rd party applications to accelerate certain intensive tasks when you demand them.
However, shoehorning AI into the OS itself definitely screams buzzwords. AI and OS’s are polar opposites: You want an OS to be fast, predictable, and reliable. AI is currently slow, extremely unpredictable, and hallucinatory (i.e. unreliable).
Personally i’m all for it, no one I know likes it and even the most aggressive linux hater I know has switched to saying that they’ll probably try it after win 10 eol
Best advertising campain I’ve ever seen, just not for the product they are trying to advertise
lol, the Linux adoption accelerationism.
Kinda funny, not too long ago it was a fun mental exercise if you were paying attention to the tech industry to try to think of the ways in which Google or MS could fall.
Now, AFAICT, neither are falling any time soon, but there certainly seems to be a shift in how they’re perceived and how their brand sits in the market (where even so I’m still probably in a bubble on this).
But I’m not sure how predictable it would have been that both would look silly stumbling for AI dominance.
And, yea, I’m chalking recall up to the AI race as it seems like a grab for training data to me, and IIRC there were some clues around that this could be true.
Microsoft has become a weird one. On the side of things like GitHub and VSCode, they’ve done really well and have fostered amazing tools. I have friends that work on the developer side of things there and love it. But then you look at Windows and it’s a damn abomination. It’s easily one of the most anti-consumer pieces of software in existence.
Unfortunatly had to upgrade to windows11 thank god for tiny11, winutil, MAS, and virtualbox.
If you don’t need winapps/battery life start looking into Linux
Ohh i only run windows in a vm. Am loving the linux propaganda this might finally be the year of the linux desktop.
Oh lol good. The only issue I have with Linux is laptops and battery life. It’s a YMMV situation as some have same or better battery life, while some it’s alot worse than windows even with tools like tlp and stuff.
How different is this vs the previous feature which was their version of apples Time Machine?
This isn’t file backup. This takes a screenshot every few minutes, OCRs it, and stores all that in an unencrypted SQLite file in your user folder for anyone to grab.
Basically anything on your screen is recorded and stored, theoretically forever.
What use is it if it its not backup?
FTFY: Windows
feature that screenshots everything labeledis a security “disaster”I just installed Nobara today so I could finally rid myself of Windows hell and it’s been amazing.
Lol I read that as Norton at first!
Norton OS. It’s just full of trials to their software.
Oh god why lmao. NortonOS™️
Is that a linux distro?
It is, a gaming focused Fedora distro to be exact.
Nobara is a Fedora distro(essentially backed by IBM) by Glorious Eggroll (developer who made Proton GE) designed to be more gaming user oriented, as many of its preincluded configs and applications were tailored to gamers.
Calling Fedora IBM backed feels so wrong but technically true I guess.
I am currently using Fedora mostly for gaming. I wonder what’s different to Nobara?
If you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security. In some cases, this will mean prioritizing security above other things we do, such as releasing new features or providing ongoing support for legacy systems. This is key to advancing both our platform quality and capability such that we can protect the digital estates of our customers and build a safer world for all.
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, 03 May 2024
You keep using that word… I do not think it means what you think it means.
