Technology @lemmy.ml umami_wasabi @lemmy.ml 1y ago

Microsoft confirms Copilot AI assistant coming to Windows 10

www.bleepingcomputer.com /news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-copilot-ai-assistant-coming-to-windows-10/

TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.

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Really considering moving my main computer to Linux with the way things are going
- I did this the moment they dropped copilot on my taskbar without any prompting. It was my gaming machine so it took a little getting used to, but it’s been solid ever since.
  
  I did not ask for an AI chatbot in my os. I don’t want an AI chatbot in my os.
  
  You could go to Settings -> Personalization -> Taskbar and turn the Copilot button off. Or you could install a whole new OS to accomplish that, I guess. Whichever is simpler.
- I'm dual booting my laptop and most of the time I stay using Linux. There just no point using Windows except some specific tasks.
- I tried doing this the other day. Due to my current GPU (3080) it was too many hoops to jump through just to play a game. I don't want to spend time configuring my setup to make the game run in the little amount of free time that I have ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ
  
  Although the system is very efficient I've decided to move my side project to be on Linux, making my Windows install to be purely for gaming. I was using WSL previously with a Mac for my day job.
  
  Maybe if I switched to an AMD GPU I'll do a proper Linux gaming setup.
Of course they would backport telemetry upgrades
"More useful than Cortana" is the lowest of bars.
- More useful than the thing I know my heard people talking about disabling? Wow, what a time to be alive!
- More useful at collecting your data.
Microsoft is doing a really good job convincing me to switch to Linux. Hopefully soon that will be a realistic possibility for me. Fuck Microsoft.
What the heck IS Copilot?

I hate articles that tell you, "Blorp is amazing! Blorp is coming out in 3 days! Everybody should have Blorp! Don't miss out on Blorp!'
Bing chat sensors it's output so much
- And the "personality" they gave it annoyed me far more than any human ever has.
My Ameliorated Windows won't be affected >:)
Oh goodie, now we can get the best of both clippy and Microsoft's Nazi chatbot, right on our desktop!

"It looks like you're trying to get some more Lebensraum, would you like some help with that?"
"No, you stupid thing, I'm just deleting a few files!"
- That article is from 2016, about an experimental Twitter chatbot that Microsoft tried out and immediately gave up on when it went awry. Clippy is even more ancient. This is ridiculous.
  
  A joke is a lot like a frog, you can learn a lot by dissecting it, but the patient usually dies in the process.
- It appears you are angry with me. Do you want me to explain how great I am?

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