TLDR:
Windows 11 v24H2 and beyond will have Recall installed on every system. Attempting to remove Recall will now break some file explorer features such as tabs.

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    1 month ago

    Just like systemd became a dependency for stuff that never needed it in the first place…

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      1 month ago

      I guess you were downvoted because Recall is a closed-source privacy nightmare, and systemd, for all its flaws, is open source.

      Does it relate to your statement? No. But people will take pitchforks if you compare the two, I fancy.

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        1 month ago

        I fancy

        I’m not saying you aren’t fancy, but grab a pitchfork and start fencing with it!!

        (But yes, I was a bit confused by downvotes too but your explanation makes sense - which is weird bcs now that I understand it as such I’m def in the pitchfork crowd, even if I think we should be either way more lenient or give waaay more funding for the open sauce peeps providing us the rescue we don’t deserve)

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          1 month ago

          The context matters, doesn’t it? Like it or not, systemd is essential for moderns Linux systems by design, it’s necessary for them to work. You can’t say the same about recall. Comparing the approach without comparing the products is unfair.

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            1 month ago

            systemd is essential for moderns Linux systems

            And yet moderm linux systems existed prior to systemd, as modern windows exited without recall… Yes i can say the same. You can run linux without systemd (ask Gentoo, Devuan, Slackware and others) and you can run windows without recall. The dependency is forced and artificial.