Yeah I'm glad i chose Mint instead of Win11
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You know it's funny that Microsoft took this feature from Apple from macOS. But here's the thing right? This shit requires a super computer npu to run and meanwhile my 2012 MacBook Pro with a core i5 3rd gen running opencore legacy patcher can just do this stuff in the exact same way. For the features one would actually wanna use this for.
Today I had to disable Copilot in Notepad.
Notepad.
The shitty word editor that you use to jot down your shitty writing before copypasting it into somewhere else to put actual work into it.
You’re telling me I can’t change the shitty line-spacing in shitty Notepad, but I can get a top-of-the-line corporate LLM to help me with my purposely shitty writing?
#keepnotepadshitty
I love notepad for deleting all formatting so word doesn't take a massive shit when I paste things into it from other documents.
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Wipe Windows, Install Linux ;D That was my last straw as well.
Hell yeah. I run LMDE6 on my gaming PC. Runs fucking fantastic, even plays games faster via Proton than it did on Windows natively.
Damn I thought it was going to be at least useful like a text prompt.
"Search all these files dumped and find me the ones from my old pc, move them all to the same location on the biggest spare partition that isn't the os one, and then organize them into folders by general idea without breaking up the coherency of the directories. And do it without losing the existing modified or created dates. Retain the original organization in an xml doc that you can read, just in case I don't like the organization and want to try again."
Or
"Install all libre stuff and all of the most useful windows tools. Delete, disable, tear out, and block all telemetry from this Windows installation. There must be privacy and zero enshittification on this computer. Go through, file by file, including all hidden and file systems and services, reading through each and every binary, and decompile, rip out any spyware or telemetry, and recompile. You have a week and this system will be disconnected from the internet entirely for the duration. Go."
This is the type of ai that would actually be useful to me. Imagine the power of being able to fully delegate lower level tasks like this.
I think the prompts that ask to remove telemetry (or to be exact, stuff that try to modify system files) will just give you error. Similar to some current AI models that would just not run when it found some "prohibited" words in prompt.
I feel like AI never has useful features like that, just weird little gimmicks.
I'm sure it would be possible to develop an actual AI assistant like that, FOSS of course.
With current AI I doubt it, at best it would do it 90% and then completely screw up the rest of your files.
"all your files are now on onedrive."
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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possible issues:
- blurred a part of the photo that shouldn't be blurred, data loss
- erased the wrong object, data loss
- deleted large chunks of content in my docs/ppts/spreadsheets I wanted to keep, data loss
This is a really bad idea
But if you stick all of your files into OneDrive and turn on version history you can keep trying… /s
letting AI do whatever it wants to your files is not very good...
I love how even this flagship feature is just one more lazy shortcut to another app that bloats the context menu 😅
Context menu bloat was solved in W11 by hiding all those actions you do use behind a "more..." button 🤦♂️ TIHI
Obligatory “learn to use your computer and install another OS” post. You’ll probably find that your computer becomes MORE useful, not less.
Most people don't realize how slow Windows is. When you try something else, you realize how much time you have been spending just waiting for Windows to do things. Our computers can be a lot faster than Windows lets them be.
A couple of weeks ago I rebooted into Windows for the first time in well over 8 months, as I needed to use a piece of software I don't have on Linux (it's available, I'm just refusing to pay for it and no alternative method has materialised), and getting anything done was incredibly frustrating.
First everything had to update, and I was forced to log in to a bunch of stuff. My web browser spontaneously vanished, as did Discord. No idea why. Opening Explorer consistently took several seconds because it always decided to poll my external drive before displaying anything, even if I didn't do shit in my external drive.
Explorer being slow applies on my work PC too, and I have to use Windows on that. Every day I wonder how it'd be to put Linux on it.
Nautilus just opens the moment I click on it. Always.
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This is a whole new level of data mining, which is why they want it. Now they will scan everything that's open.
they want to justify the cost of using AI, which they admit to not generating any profit, they are trying to sell off as much data as they can, so they can offsett the cost of power/water intensive AI.
man I'm so glad I'll never use windows again.
I'm so glad I've been moving away from windows recently
Same. I finally dumped Windows 10 on my gaming PC for LMDE6 a few months ago, and I already see massive benefits. It runs games faster, I can do anything I want with it, including multiple simultaneous user sessions, and can even admin the thing entirely from my phone via Cockpit or plain ol' SSH (VPN/local network only, of course).
i'm so tired of ai
Worst part is people will keep using this garbage. The brain rot is so real.
People will always gravitate towards tools that make their lives easier. That's never gong to change, and is a driving force behind why we have the technology we do now.
That said, this AI shit is clearly not ready for primetime. I do not trust it to have access to my files. Machine learning and LLMs have their place - my phone's keyboard (FUTO Keyboard) runs a local LLM model that learns my swiping/typing habits and trains the predictive text feature on that data - but that's a very specialized application, and I have control over it.
I'm not really talking about LLMs or ML in general. I'm talking about capitalism and enshitification.
I use LLMs every day from the comfort of my Linux systems.
If Linux was more compatible with a lot of programs/games there would be absolutely no reason to install windows ever again
I finally switched to full-time Linux last year and I haven't missed anything. The only stuff that doesn't work (and doesn't have a good alternative) are games with invasive anti-cheat that I wanted to boycott anyway.
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