Technology

It drives me insane when I randomly get Microsoft telling me to finish setting up my PC like 5 years into owning it and all its trying to do is get me to reset my default browser to edge. Fucking annoying as shit.

The funny thing is, that microsoft has been doing that for years now and people just ate it, including forced updates, changes to default applications, limitations on hardware etc. It's kinda funny that copilot is the drop that made the barrel spill.

I've been neutral with Microsoft upgrades for years. Annoying, but not enough to want to change.

But after Cortana, I'm done in with upgrades. I'm sitting on Win10 forever until SteamOS fully works for every game i own. My work laptops are already off of Microsoft.

Copilot is Microsoft’s name for their AI service, like Google’s Gemini or Chat GPT. Recall is their service that will screenshot everything you do for ~~training~~ improving the results.

Literally final straw that made me jump exclusively to a linux distro.

GEE WHIZ WHO WOULDN’T WANT THAT

The promise of Copilot is this fanciful idea of automating every job that involves a computer.

So employers love this, because it is supposed to usher in a drastically smaller office fully of middle management prompt engineers who can simulate a new worker with a few button clicks.

That's the dream. That's who it is for in theory. In practice, the technology doesn't work.

You're thinking of Recall

I kind of want to see the chat boards where people who think this is a good idea hang out and justify it...

With sort of the same way you stare at a train wreck, morbid curiosity.

That's recall, copilot is clippy on steroids.

Layoffs used to be less common prior to the itinerant CEO being the main type. Layoffs as a performance for shareholders even when it's known that they hurt the long term stability of the company is 80s/90s.

Gemini is such a joke. I long pressed my phone's button while driving to send my wife a text with voice to text. Gemini pops up and is like "I can't do that". Then I ask it to switch back and it gives me instructions on how. I can't do that while I'm driving though. So annoying and useless. Couldn't navigate anywhere either or okay my music.

Still wonder to this day why microsoft, with all their experience with the xbox, that they never made windows be able to behave like a konsole. I have an gaming pc at my tv and the times that some random popup or program suddenly has Focus is way to high. You still need a fucking keyboars. At least my main computer is Linux <3

Yeah there's nothing I like more than having AI integrated into everything I do. It's sure fun to have educated guesses crowbarred into everything I search for!

This is quite scary from Microsoft's point of view, which has put so much effort and money into its AI ventures that it really cannot afford for its business to dwindle out so soon.

No one forced them to jump on the hype train. And, rather than realizing people don't want it shoved into every nook and cranny of the OS and its default apps, they're probably going to double down and start with full-screen popups or some other bullcrap like they did with the Windows 10 upgrades.

"The people will like what we tell them to like" only seems to work for Apple.

This kind of thing makes me lose hope for humanity—the tendency for psychopaths to rise in power. Maybe that actually helped us advance to a point but it’ll definitely hold us back from evolving to something more equitable for all.

Win 2k was my favorite. Ran well and gave the user total control over the system.

Min Reqs: 233 MHz Processor, 64MB RAM, 1.5 GB Storage... it could probably run on your car key fob.

Gates must be rolling in his grave

Eh?

and our manager sounded so proud to announce it. I just don't use it, but lowered my standards instead. If they want us to use more ai, then ai quality work is what they're going to get. It has indirectly made my job easier by helping me give less of a fuck.