Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings
terraborra@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
Seems like it would have been cheaper, easier, and better pr to just simplify settings or have them in more logical categories, but what would I know.
It’s much more fun to just half-ass a new control panel with only a few features, and then hide the old, fully-functional control panel.
Bonus points if you can then begrudgingly finally show the old, useful, control panel when a user clicks 6 layers deep in the new panel.
First time using Microsoft products, is it?
nickhammes@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If a problem exists, and you try to fix it without AI, do you even stand a chance at getting promoted?
thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 days ago
It’s rather apparent that you composed this comment without AI. Guess I’ll have to give that pay raise to myself again…
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Of course this is a solved problem and has been a solved problem for at least 15 years now. It’s called a flat wide hierarchy. Rather than trying to put everything into categories you just put everything into alphabetical order and then have a search box. Want to change the background, it’s under B for Background, rather than having to go to
Display Settings > Customisation > Desktop Background > Custom Background > Select ImageTheBlackLounge@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Windows already does that. If you type Wallpaper in the search on your task bar, changing your background is at the top. Maybe AI is useful for people who don’t know what the thing they want to do is called? It’s just an extension of flat wide.
Taika@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
If you type Wallpaper in the Windows search bar you’ll likely get bing results for ”Top trendy wallpapers to spice up your living room!”
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Well sort of, you’re right that they’ve introduced a search bar but that’s all they’ve done. It’s all still broken down into fairly arbitrarily arrived at categories it’s not in alphabet order, or in fact any real order.
Sound settings are under peripherals for god’s sake. I mean sure okay speakers are a peripheral I guess but when you say peripheral you think things like webcams, not basic IO.