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[-] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

First, you should be able to interact with it naturally, in text or voice, and have it understand you.

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.

Fourth and finally, it should be able to destroy your corporeal form and live on as digital-you liking your aunt's dog pictures on Instagram and writing Facebook posts about immigrants taking our jobs, with just as many creative slurs as you would use.

[-] Flocklesscrow@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Take action on my behalf? Absolutely not. Go fuck yourself AI.

[-] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If you're stuck with Win11, this will unfuck quite a bit of it.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It's obvious that Windows and Microsoft remain as evil as they were in the 00s when they basically singlehandedly held back web development with ie6 for a fucking decade.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago
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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

First steps of windows install:

  1. No to everything for data monitoring
  2. Google or Opera default browser
  3. Disable or ignore all copilot icons
  4. Unstick all user folders from OneDrive
  5. TranslucentTB
[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

google as default browser

You sweet summer child, Google is as bad if not even worse than Microsoft. Chrome is no longer the browser the memes that glazed it used to depict it as.

[-] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

Also, didn't opera sell to some spyware company? I'm team zen (firefox fork with some very neat extra features) btw.

[-] relativestranger@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago

opera has been owned by chinese company since 2016.

[-] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All your points are a bit questionable:

  1. Sure, you should click no to almost everything Microsofts asks anywhere, but that hardly helps. Use privacy tools like O&O Shut Up to actually disable spy stuff.
  2. God no. Vivaldi is nice if you must have Chromium (this is made by the guys who used to build Opera, before it was sold to shady new owners), otherwise Firefox.
  3. See point 1.
  4. Just uninstall the damn thing, or some tools of point 1 might do this for you.
  5. If you must, sure.

Using Enterprise version of Windows is the best option, it already has most of the malicious stuff left out.

[-] Joelk111@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

You forgot the step where you ignore step 2 and use Firefox.

[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yah... You dont own your OS on W11, you had better script those changes or they might be reverted on major updates. (They do that for the default browser all the time, and they will likely break that script every year or two)

This is why the [gestures broadly to Lemmy community] evangalizes for Linux so much, everyone is going have to learn a new OS anyway. Aside from what ever Apple is doing, there really are only two choices, a free and open source suite of software that is trusted because everything is public and auditable, or an OS that activly contributes to the creation of the Torment Nexus. We do get that some applications wont work on linux, but my response to that is to look for a new version anyway, your living on borrowed time. Windows 11 is rolling full speed ahead on breaking compatibility with everything Microsoft did not make (and therefore cant update to collect data on you).

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 day ago

Google or Opera default browser

What about Librewolf,there is a build for it for windows but no auto updating

[-] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

we need more PCS without oses or with a Linux distro instead.
(e.g, Raspberry pi, building your own pc)

[-] Corridor8031@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 days ago

i think the whole problem is that they call it AI, which basically describes it as something that it just cant deliver

[-] krypt@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

It can deliver.. your personal information to the states +third-parties

[-] eddyizm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

return of the clippy, now named skynet.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Someone I work with puts every question they have into GPT. They are completely incapable of having an original thought anymore.

GPT is causing real life brain rot for the general public.

[-] medem@lemmy.wtf 15 points 2 days ago

...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!

[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

How to either make more sheeple or convince more to switch to Linux.

[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 224 points 3 days ago

Microsoft is doing more for Linux adoption than anyone else ever has lol

[-] zewm@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago

Valve with Steamdeck and Proton development: “Am I a joke to you?”

[-] towerful@programming.dev 15 points 2 days ago

Steam took the cap off the toothpaste tube.
Microsoft is giving the toothpaste tube a good squeeze!

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[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 33 points 2 days ago

They are helping, yes, but windows 11 is a driving force like I've never seen.

[-] prole 5 points 2 days ago

It's only really viable though, because of Steam and Proton

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[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

They got that 68% usage number likely by counting everyone accidentally using it after a search swap or similar trick.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago
  • 68% of people who answered the survey full of loaded questions they sent to a curated demographic
[-] UltraMagnus@startrek.website 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

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.

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[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

they are equating "AI support" with "I want AI copilot integrated into my OS"

and that's a big leap

[-] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] melfie@lemy.lol 69 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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?

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[-] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 91 points 3 days ago

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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[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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