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I know this is satire, but there is actually one and one you actually control. May be useful to remember who said what and where. It can be useful. Just not the way a megacorp implements it.

Here it is [unaffiliated, untested by me, unvetted]: https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall

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For all that it is satire, it is a lot more functional than you might realize at first glance.

https://github.com/rolflobker/recall-for-linux/blob/e16382f0...

Judging from the code, I’m pretty sure this is generated by AI

Microsoft claims 30% of their code is now written by AI. So right on point.

Why? Because of the emojis? Normally I'd agree, except in this case it seems like part of the joke.

Lacks Wayland support unfortunately.

For just screen recording you can use https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder

It's 10+ GB per 8 hours based on some testing I did. Could be useful for short term uses like tracing some technical troubleshooting or pulling screenshots for documentation.

What issue did you run into? It's using grim for capturing the screen.

I don't see any results on KDE Wayland; a (fairly old) open issue: https://github.com/openrecall/openrecall/issues/10

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mss.exception.ScreenShotError: XGetImage() failed

Yeah, Wayland leaves this up to the compositors, and the compositors never bothered to implement it.

This alternative is still storing the screenshots and the OCRed content unencrypted, and the web UI is also unauthenticated.

There's some docs on storing the data in an encrypted volume or external drive, but 99% of people ain't doing that.

The only real improvement over MS's version is keeping the data local, which ain't much, really.

> The only real improvement over MS's version is keeping the data local, which ain't much, really.

That's already a lot.

It's an actual useful feature, it's just the tracking by microsoft that makes it meh.

I also track my activities with ActivityWatch (Open Source, https://activitywatch.net/) to remember missing time entries for billing clients. It's all local, so perfectly fine.

Ah nice. I was hoping this was real - just yesterday someone was asking about something and I knew I had written up a description of it but couldn't remember where - Mattermost? GitHub Gist? Random text file? Confluence? Turned out to be Stackoverflow, but it took me quite a while to find it.

Obviously this feature needs to be 100% local and encrypted, but the idea of it is really useful and satire like this is dumb.

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