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Comment on “You heard wrong” - users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11

LMAO The copium that these Microsoft chuds are huffing must be quality stuff for them to ignore criticism from their user base. Their naked desperation for users to embrace agentic Browsers and OS is cringe as fuck. I can only hope that this hurts them badly, when users continue to find ways to circumvent the AI madness that Microsoft has succumbed to. Glad that I switched to Linux and can watch the storm rage on the Broken Window side without worry.

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timkenhan@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It always makes me wonder: what exactly do they have to gain pushing AI to everything? Like, what’s the angle here?

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- Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I personally see two major factors :
  
  it’s yet another way to collect data for monetization (selling to governments and advertisers).
  
  it’s a symptom of market culture : it exists not to serve the user, but to be a product to sell to the user. In that light, it behaves and evolves exactly as any other thingy which tries to reinvent itself year after year, to keep customers interested, regardless of its intrinsic value as an operating system.
  
  but that’s just me, I can’t claim to understand the inner workings of Microsoft
  
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  - timkenhan@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Makes sense, especially with all the tech bros racing to enshittify the world.
    
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  - IceFoxX@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It collects data that is sufficient for a personal profile. MS is already arbitrarily blocking accounts in Europe. Now think of Trump. The proliferation of flock cameras and cameras in general. Post something wrong once and you’re gone. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_TlmtdjrOxc
    
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- markz@suppo.fi ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  AI is obviously the next big thing. If your product isn’t full AI right now, you’ll miss out.
  
  So basically I’m convinced the reason everyone’s chasing AI is all just greed and fomo. People at the top of the ladder seem generally more detached from reality.
  
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- cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Three thongs
  
  They own openai, which is a ponzi scheme.
  
  They are spying on you. Obviously. This is a better excuse to do more of that more openly.
  
  This creates a corporate controlled abstraction layer between you and everything you do, puts more decision control and discernment in the corporation’s hands. When Amazon tried to move to voice based ordering, it was on this same logic; that they would choose the product for ypu based on what’s best for them.
  
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- Inucune@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If your program/OS has to constantly phone home to operate, you can’t easily distinguish the traffic related to it’s operation from the traffic snooping all your data. Extra points if you willingly give the AI access or information.
  
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BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
One step ahead - installed Syncthing on an always-on Windows box located at my office, pointed it at some needed Google Drive folders, and synced to Debian. The Windows box has other syncing tasks anyway so it’s not costing anything in power. The Debian laptop is becoming my main workhorse.

rclone is too much of a PITA to configure.
insync is way too expensive, especially with multiple Google Drive accounts.
Gnome’s sync thinggie does weird stuff with filenames in LibreOffice etc, is basically unusable.

I need Google Drive due to my existing business setups.

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