First steps of windows install:
return of the clippy, now named skynet.
i think the whole problem is that they call it AI, which basically describes it as something that it just cant deliver
It can deliver.. your personal information to the states +third-parties
At this point, regular use of AI should forbid you from voting. It not only means that you can't make decisions on your own, but that your choice can be affected by the people owning the AI service.
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With 68% of consumers reporting using AI to support their decision making, voice is making this easier.
sure, maybe as a reference tool. not as fucking something that can perform actions on my computer
Second, it should be able to see what you see and be able to offer guided support. And third, it should be able to take action on your behalf.
...and 99,99% of middle managers '''working''' in tech be like yeaaaaaaaa daddy just cram that shit down my throat like I'm an abused goose!
How to either make more sheeple or convince more to switch to Linux.
With 68% of consumers reporting using AI to support their decision making, voice is making this easier. [1]
Does anybody actually believe that 68% of consumers use or even want Copilot? But they included a source for this very generous assertion at the bottom of the page:
[1] Based on Microsoft-commissioned online study of U.S. consumers ages 13 years of age or older conducted by Edelman DXI and Assembly, 1,000 participants, July 2025.
Oh yeah, that's compelling: US consumers, 13 years old and older. An entire thousand of them!
So the only question I have left is which junior high principal Microsoft "compensated" for this survey, and what happened to the 320 summer school attendees who said fuck you, no anyway.
they are equating "AI support" with "I want AI copilot integrated into my OS"
and that's a big leap
When google shoves their ai to the top of search results, its hard not to read it. I've been spoiled by ublock and I am no longer used to ignoring the first few things that come up.
I've been using Duckduckgo with uBlock for years, so I had no real problems with anything like the hell of Google "sponsored content" until Duckduckgo started putting up their own AI search assistant. Since then I've gone from start.duckduckgo.com to noai.duckduckgo.com because I got tired of turning their search assist off and couldn't reliably block it with uBlock because they kept changing it. (I delete all cookies after every browser session and do not maintain individual app accounts, so their AI settings options were never gonna work for me.)
Because of the way my brain works, I literally don't even want to see what AI says until I've done my own looking. Yet I never failed to turn it off, because I just can't rely on it.
Usually when I'm looking for something I'm in a hurry, so it's less trouble for me to just pick my own sources, preferably older than 2023 if possible, and read a bit myself than to spend time getting blithely lied to, or even just suspect hallucination/omission to the point that I think I need to verify it before I can rely on it.
It's not an exaggeration to say that for me, it is literally faster to skim three or four completely different primary sources than it is to try to verify the assertions in a single search assist paragraph: one is just light reading, the other is point by point comparison of the AI offering against multiple independent sources. So I read.
I've never regretted summarizing a topic myself, but I've definitely gotten some rotten eggs from AI, both in blatant non-truths AND in holes of omission you could drive a truck through. I won't make that mistake again. So for me, AI summaries are well worth staying wary of for now.
My favorite is when AI summary answers a question, then the links from the search below contradict that answer. It's shit for biomedical research.
Maybe Marginalia could work for you? I've tried using it, but it's a lot more focused on academic stuff (rather than figuring out song lyrics or which episode some TV quote came from). It's an "old school" search engine, though, so a bit less convenient than google, duckduckgo, etc. if you weren't around in 90s/early 00s for that.
Also just because you have used AI doesn't mean its overly useful. Gone to ChatGPT multiple times to try getting information that Google now is too shit to provide, and ChatGPT ends up providing some stupid response that is clearly wrong.
Occasionally used ChatGPT to find a website to use as an actual source, but now those sources are also AI written bullshit that is clearly wrong. Which is increasingly concerning because while I know some things are wrong, I don't know everything. How many other things that it points to are wrong? Its not too bad if you are able to verify it through non LLM sources, but what if you can't?
Yeah like we all use chatGPT for the most part now but that still does not mean copilot
Fun fact though out of topic: I once searched for 2 girls one cup in copilot, and though it said I cant talk about it, it provided sources and one of them was a link to the video
I can't judge you for that, I feel like you probably got the very best Copilot has to offer, lol
Microsoft is doing more for Linux adoption than anyone else ever has lol
And literally 99% of their userbase will stay on Windows.
Valve with Steamdeck and Proton development: “Am I a joke to you?”
Steam took the cap off the toothpaste tube.
Microsoft is giving the toothpaste tube a good squeeze!
So many people just immediately gave into ChatGPT, I doubt Microsoft’s actions will do that much damage. Besides, for anyone not using it it’s pretty easy to ignore. I don’t do a single thing on my PC that requires much beyond opening a game or Firefox so I don’t feel the pressure to leave at the moment.
Ironically, one of the things that I'm moving to Linux for is the gaming performance boost that I've heard some people report due to the lack of Windows bloat and telemetry running in the background all the time.
Bazzite, the Linux version I keep seeing people recommend for gaming and people new to Linux has had a big boost in users in the past 6 weeks or so, apparently, that people are completely attributing to Microsoft.
They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I've never seen.
It's only really viable though, because of Steam and Proton
Not everything is vidjagames
Making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC
Great, so everything runs locally, making it a self-contained “AI PC”. Otherwise, the headline surely would’ve been, “Making every PC collect data to train Microsoft’s models with little benefit in return“. Right?
What do you mean "little benefit in return"?
Clearly, it streams a buttload of data!
Your ISP bill will surely grow. Hope you're not roaming with your laptop on!
Microsoft is so incredibly fucked when the AI bubble starts to burst. They've abandoned so many of their other projects and customers to go all-in on it.
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