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Long ago I set up my terminal program to keep a log of everything that came across the screen. It's been a game changer and I wouldn't want to live without it a
by add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
Long ago I set up my terminal program to keep a log of everything that came across the screen. It's been a game changer and I wouldn't want to live without it again. Any command line I ever ran, SQL query, results of those queries, I can search and refer back to. And it helps with smaller questions like what directory was I in when I ran this command, roughly what time was it, how many times did I run it, or am I misremembering whether I ran it yesterday or not?
I don't know if I'll use this Recall feature since I have my own solution set up already, but ignoring the typical Microsoft outrage, the general capability to have access to your history of work actions is powerful.
- graypegg 2y agoI definitely don't doubt that Recall would be useful to me, it actually seems like it adds an insane amount of user value. (Not just text, this is also capturing "context": "What was that purple slide that was on screen during that zoom call last month" etc.) I just can't trust Microsoft to make anything I use willingly. Microsoft being associated with it, as well as them cranking up the tedium with every update to any software they make has entirely destroyed any benefit-of-the-doubt I would've given Recall.
- aucisson_masque 2y agoIf apple was doing it, everyone would be praising them. The issue is with Microsoft réputation, too many half done product, too many loophole to get user's data, too many privacy setting turning themselves back off after an update, ...
- leoh 2y ago‘were’ not ‘was’, subjunctive case bro
- CoolCold 2y agoI cannot imagine things of this sort in terminal would be useful for me, but interesting outlook for my bubble, thank you