At this point I can only assume that Microsoft is actively trying to punish me for using their products.
Ever since Windows 10, Microsoft has shown to be a sadist.
Windows ME has some shit to say… Then Windows 8 will be next to have a chat.
Windows ME wasn’t a sadist. It would have to actually work to get that far. The best thing that happened to a laptop I had which came with ME installed was to put Win98 on it. Ran great after that.
Windows ME was a bastardization of the NT and DOS environment. I was a Microsoft support analyst at the time. From the insiders perspective, it was the biggest pile of shit
ME was a freak of software development, not an outright sadistic experience.
Linux Mint Cinnamon is incredible, free to try/move to, and reversible.
No, it’s not. Horrible and outdated in many aspects. Much better options out there.
Go on… Pop!_OS? KDE Fedora? And why? I was about to move to Mint Cinnamon 22.2 until you said this, but I’m open to recs.
Why? Who’s asking for this stuff, is there somebody out there who is really pleased with this news or is Microsoft really just that out of touch.
I don’t want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks, but Microsoft are pushing me towards it.
Consumers are not the main driver of profit, speculative value is. Microsoft knows that Windows is guaranteed to be on the majority of PC’s, which means they can afford to implement hostile features that increase the speculative value on data collection and AI investment.
This is well said. So many people don’t get that of course these companies know you hate this shit.
They’re just trying to boost their stock value and violate your privacy harder.
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Yeah exactly. Sucks if you have a job that forces you to use Windows though, which is largely how MS has this stanglehold on PC share. Once this becomes an expensive security risk, maybe more businesses will switch to paid Linux OS’s.
I don’t think MS is out of touch with what the customer wants, I think they just stopped listening.
The fact is nobody is asking for this stuff.
I think the hope is that they build it anyway and then people will use/want it. AI is the big buzzword of the decade, just like ‘cloud’ was the big buzzword of last decade.
my hope is that they implement it and we get another wave of people on linux
A nice thought.
Unfortunately the only ones who switch will be people 1. Know that it is even possible to switch/that they have an option to switch, and 2. Have the technical knowledge to back up their data, then download and install Linux, that 3. Don’t have to run Windows for other reasons and/or haven’t already switched.Unfortunately with all three qualifiers you aren’t left with a giant number. Certainly no mass exodus.
i think the steam machine will help. it’s a computer that’s bound to be popular for more normie kind of people, and runs linux.
plenty of technical people left to switch too, that haven’t been so annoyed just yet.
In theory, I could use an AI for doing stuff. For example, opening ripped videos, finding the timestamp where the episode name is given, and then copying that into the video’s filename. Afterwards, it can open Handbrake, use my preferred settings for audio and subs, then start the conversion of multiple files.
However, this is all predicated on the AI not doing unwanted things - such as giving Microsoft my personal information, preferences in hentai, and passwords.
Someday I will use agentic AI, but it will be on my terms.
I’ve read this exact questions tens of times now. This is capitalism. Now why would a for profit company ever do anything? I leave you to your deductions.
Won’t they make more money if they don’t piss everyone off.
They can’t think that far ahead. Quarterly earnings are king.
Woah woah woah, lot’s not compare fabulous knee high rainbow socks with the malware MS is putting in their OS. That’s not fair to rainbows or socks.
The implication is that they’ll have to jump ship to Linux, and thus become a member of the unixsocks community.
put the socks on >:3
I’m not sure what’s worse, the greybeard stereotype or the socks.
Oh, the greybeard stereotype, for sure. Carrying the weight required for the ‘classic RMS’ look isn’t good for your health. Cute twinks in knee-high socks carrying a blahaj are much better, everyone loves them.
Now, the fully-actuated fursuit for if you want to be taken seriously as a sysadmin? That’s an expensive hobby.
wdym worse? the socks aren’t bad
Just a bit misgendery for my tastes. Also some right wing people have glommed onto the whole femboy thing. There is 100% a femboy-fascist pipeline.
Not heard of any femboy-fascist pipeline
I’d assume that fascists would hate femboys for being unmanly men
The basic idea is that it can stem from the incel world, the attitude that if they can’t have women, they can become them. It can be a way to affirm hypermasculinity, not challenge it.
So it ends up being dominance, forcing men into subservience.
I don’t want to have to start wearing rainbow knee-length socks
it’s pretty obvious that you do
Microsoft is forcefemming en masse.
The socks have a bit of a learning curve, depending on what you want to do with them, but it’s worth it. It’s such a huge relief to not care how much more Windows is getting enshittified this week, since it’s not my problem anymore.
I work in IT for businesses and the number of times I’ve had to debunk AI slop hallucinations as actual troubleshooting information is not zero.
“Yes, I can see the instructions say to check that checkbox, however, that checkbox does not exist” (screenshot of relevant control panel).
This is just evidence, to me, that business types are already relying on AI instead of doing any actual thought or research on any topic they don’t already have a deep understanding of, or are too lazy to bother with.
Consumers are not driving this change.
The worst part is that it’s an echo chamber of yes-men that seem to be pushing for it. The AI enthusiasts trying to sell their crap, convincing the middle managers that they need their AI crap, and them buying it and asking for more/better AI crap, and the cycle continues. At no point does any of the output of any AI system provide any unique insight, or value, to anyone. The rest of us are being dragged along for the ride, regardless of what we want.
Isn’t it so they can train their AI on your personal files?
The tech industry puts bazillions of dollars into AI development and now it has to put AI literally everywhere to make it look somehow useful. Whether the customer / user wants this or not. I guess they are hoping that people will eventually like it.
“I see you are dual booting with Linux? I’ve reformatted that partition for you.”
I had this happen before but not in recent times. Not sure if others have experienced the same.
For a while I had my bootloader on a single drive but I now have my Linux bootloader on /dev/sda and my windows on /dev/sdb and toggle it in the bios when I need to use Windows. I haven’t had Windows overwrite anything in a long time. Could be a coincidence though.
It’s mostly an issue when you have them sharing boot drives via partitions. If you keep them isolated to their own separate drives, Windows doesn’t tend to muck with things. It’s because Windows is bad about killing bootloaders, and automatically setting itself as the default in the boot order. So if you have it sharing a drive, it’ll nuke your boot. But if you don’t have them sharing a drive, and boot via a loader on the Linux drive, there is no boot loader on the Windows drive to nuke.
One of the reasons why I never dual boot. Unfucking GRUB is not on my priority lists.
Only dualboot with windows on a separate drive, that hasn’t given me any issues in the past 5 years or so
Just make sure to unplug all non-Windows drives when installing Windows. Otherwise it can do weird things like making unilateral decisions on which exact drive it shoves its bootloader on. I’ve wiped my Linux drive when changing to another distro aaaaand the Windows bootloader was gone too. It really shouldn’t have been.
Yeah whenever I set up a computer with dual boot it’s always Windows first, then Linux. Windows assumes it’s the only OS that exists so if there’s something else there it just ignores it and writes over the boot thingy. Linux actually bothers to look for anything else that’s installed and works around it.
Same here. I have Windows 10 on a separate physical disk (sdb). I have Linux and GRUB on sda, so Windows has no idea that it’s not the only OS on my computer.
The LLMs demand more data, so MS is providing it by scraping our personal hard drives. Well, not mine, but still most peoples.
I still have Win10 running on an air-gapped laptop because there are no Linux drivers for my cheap auto-feed scanner, which I’m using to scan a raft of old photos. Once that project is done, I’ll put Linux Mint on it, and use it for something fun.
Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Steam, LibreOffice, Obsidian, and Jellyfin do everything I want from a desktop.
I have a dual-boot with Linux Mint. I don’t access anything personal from my windows installation. It’s just for games that don’t work on Linux.
your personal hard drive? Did you mean OneDrive?
Dont forget “Everything”
Oof - that reminds me - I have a LOT of scanning / digitizing to do.
How long before you can’t turn this off or uninstall it, just like Edge, or Bitlocker, or TPM, or mandatory Microsoft accounts?
Just pirate windows server or other enterprise editions which can be used only by business
Absolutely. I spent like 3 hours the other day trying to get a W11 vm running; trying to emulate TPM and faking secure boot. I gave up and installed server in 5 minutes 😑
Hi there! I have a tiny11 ISO that I always use to install Windows on stuff when needed. I’ve never encountered this issue before. Have you tried using Rufus to put the ISO on the USB? It has options for stuff like that. I can’t say how successful they are, as I guess tiny11 does a lot of that itself?
Huh, I’ve never heard of that before. Fortunately, I rarely need to use the one program in my workflow that requires windows and it supports windows server.
No problem! I just wanted to see if I might be helpful in some way! Cheers!
I’d give it another year at best.
My mom is a retired nursing instructor, I’ve picked up a few things over the years. This is going to be fun when a HIPA violation occurs via MS A.I.
Honestly any industry where you see confidential information or proprietary information, could pose a massive threat to customers. Just knowing how much of a product your competitors are shipping to a location can tell you a lot of what they are planning.
I guarantee you they will solve it by lobbying to get rid of HIPA
Nah, why get rid of it if you can get exclusions for just AI, like they are doing for other stuff like copyright.
Yeah keep the law around in case you need to weaponize it against an individual, but ignore it for corporations. The modern solution!
Yep. Waiting for the day I pull up to the dispensary to find it surrounded by ICE vans.
At some point, all that juicy sweet medical data will be worth the 8 figure bribe to several congressmen to allow thebsale of access to the data for ‘research’ use to amazon and google.
All that data is private, until it isnt.
Dont be so innocent to think that hipaa data will never be sold, it will be eventually
I work in healthcare (maintenance) and our computer system is so fucking locked down, I’m sure CoPilot will have some similar way of being shackled. I was surprised to learn that the terminal isn’t locked, until I fooled around some and realized that every possible command was individually blocked.
I work IT at a university that does medical research, and the doctors and their assistants are by FAR the biggest security pit among all the demographics: staff, students, various faculties. You could tell them you were official password inspector and flash an ID written in crayon on a used napkin and they’d just “yeah whatever, here you go, stop bothering me”.
They’d get chewed into paste by their directors after the inevitable happened and their compatriots would learn NOTHING.
I have to use TaskManager now to disable co-pilot
Windows is the security risk
As if recall wasn’t bad enough.
Step 1, delete Windows 11. Step 2, install Linux Mint.
What’s the difference between big software companies and drug cartels? No, this is not the opening line of a joke.
Drugs can at least be fun?
Jokes aside, I loved Freelancer and that was Microsoft
Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.
It’s kind of amazing how much they’re willing to tear down in hopes of this “” incredible “” AI vision
lol
they just keep piling on justifications for switching away
There’s not a day that goes by that i don’t think about it. In fact i might just install a dual boot today and get reacquainted with a Linux distro. See if it runs the software I need…
Look into winboat if needed
you might try a live USB before you decide to commit, you can even create one inside Windows without formatting any disks
EDIT: if for some reason you dislike Debian there are dozens of other distros out there
Time to regulate the shit out of them. They don’t know what consent is, they flaunt the abuse of privacy laws.
