I just got a colonoscopy and the doc said she found some copilot in there
Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app
Submitted 17 hours ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
mr_account@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Terminal
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Only if it’s more than a yard deep.
Somecall_metim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Well just earlier today, I installed Pop OS on an external drive. I’ll be using that to see if I can use it as a daily driver. If I can, microsoft can eat the entirety of my arse.
Brewchin@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying “look at all the AI we’re doing” and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?
I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They’re spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?
JSens1998@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Copilot is falling very far behind all of the other big AI players in the space that it’s actually laughable. The main reason they’re implementing it into every Windows first party application is so they can boost their “user” numbers to satisfy investors.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Nadella’s buddies are all making AI garbage, so he thinks he has to make AI garbage too. Because he’s massively uncreative.
And so all the managing leads think “Nadella likes AI! I must find a way to shove AI into my product so that my product/fiefdom doesn’t get the axe! I might even get a bonus! Or promotion!!!”
And so all the coding slaves are tasked with shoehorning AI into every Microsoft product, app, and/or service.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Is the share price going up?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 50 minutes ago
capuccino@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
At this pace Microsoft will change Windows’ name to Copilot. That’s my prediction.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
They’re already changing the name of MS Office to “Microsoft Copilot App”. So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you’ll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
“I know we said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows you’d need, but we really mean it this time with Windows 11. Introducing… Compost, I mean, Copilot!”
tungah@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Microsoft CopilOSt
slaacaa@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
zen@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
dukemirage@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
When I wanted the file search to not suck I didn’t mean that.
ryper@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad?
shittydwarf@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Armand1@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Explorer already crashes enough without this.
Why don’t they work on Explorer’s awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?
You know, useful software development work?
zewm@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
But much agentics tho.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.
superduperpirate@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Is microsoft secretly run by linux evangelists?
henfredemars@infosec.pub 16 hours ago
It’s been surreal watching my technically-inclined friends switch.
sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 12 hours ago
ive run dual boot systems to prolong the life of older lenovo notebooks, leaving windows up for some proprietary software id need for work… if this comes to pass though, im fucking GONE. Ill sooner use macOS than anything with a fucking llm looking at the files on my hard drive 👉
iamthetot@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
Microslop*
atropa@piefed.social 16 hours ago
We are Linux , resistance is useless ,we are everywhere
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
I can already see them brainstorming how to put that stuff in the calculator app.
At least, they don’t put it into the event viewer, because its source code has never seen a change. Looks like 10 years ago and the performance is as bad as then.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 5 hours ago
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Thank you Microslop!
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
Soon in the Microslop support forums: “Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive”.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
It probably “saw” the trash icon somewhere and some “deep thought” model concluded that erasing everything was a good idea.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Gotta pump up those usage numbers somehow. Before long, it’ll be on the login screen
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
Do you want me to fill up your password box for you?
victorz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
[logs in with credentials]
— I’m sorry, I can’t let you do that.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
ALL YOUR DIRECTORY ARE BELONG TO US
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO PRIVATE
MAKE YOUR TIME
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I have to use Windows 11 for my school computer, not allowed to change the OS. I didn’t realize how shit awful explorer had gotten between 10 and 11. For anyone reading this who has to use 11: there are explorer alternatives. I use OneCommander and it let me change the default explorer for shortcuts and when other programs bring things up like with “show in folder” options. I don’t have to use windows explorer anymore and while it’s no Linux at least it doesn’t have fucking copilot and it gives me back basic control
marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
My father always used Total Commander, the default explorer has always been lame
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It may not be helpful enough and getting on in age (maybe others know of something similar), but there is a mod called OldNewExplorer that you can run and choose to modify a few elements of Explorer. I’ve used it to change the details pane from the side back to the bottom of the window.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
It’s metastasizing. There must really be big profit and privacy-invading upsides for MS in this whole mess, since it sure as shit is not being driven by consumer demand.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 16 hours ago
I wonder how many surveillance dollars are going into that company that isn’t publicly known.
4am@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Imagine knowing what every user is doing? What they read, what they play? What pictures they take? What websites they prefer? Where they get their news? Who they speak with? Their social graph? Where they shop? How often? What their finances look like? Who they work for? What they do for them? How connected they are? How that company is doing? What their quarterly report look like before they make it public? What their plans are for those upcoming layoffs? Who they do business with for importing? What the next big thing they’re designing is?
What Microsoft is attempting to do is to create a planned economy that only benefits the rich. They’re trying to do the thing they always complain is bad about Communism, but do it in a way that gives the rich people control.
We are living in a trap and Microsoft must be eradicated from all computers and networks. OpenAI too.
goatinspace@feddit.org 16 hours ago
There are thousands of data brokers but we don’t really know to who Evil corp is selling data
greenhulk@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Stopped using Explorer long time ago. They were unable to implement tabs and color coding of files for the last 30 years. Just use Directory Opus.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Mhm. Shit people don’t want continues to be integrated into required system applications so you cannot remove/avoid it.
Seen it comming since the integration of Edge into Windows and how it’s forcibly re-installed everytime you try to remove it. Hell; even the corporate work PCs I use, which lock you out of every non-corporate supplied application such as wordpad, calculator and even the ability to see (not even modify, just view) the desltop background: failed to disable Edge (their default is Chrome). You can right click files > open with > Edge (none of the other applications listed work in any other circumstances, just edge and chrome).
Windows is dead.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Given the way everything else is successfully disabled; something tells me they either did that and it’s just not working properly for Edge, or that flag got reset by some MS update that nobody asked for and it’s just not been noticed by IT yet.
garretble@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Just what I want: file explorer to load even slower than it does now.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Not beating the cancer/parasite allegations
Xyphius@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
So glad I made the switch to Linux recently. Kept putting it off because of one pet project, but managed to get it working on Linux. My Explorer on Windows had a very noticeable memory leak.
4am@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
It’s really sad to me that everyone sees this as just an annoying superfluous feature.
Doesn’t anyone else see why Microsoft is so fucking horny for this???
It’s a fucking panopticon! They’re trying to look at everything you produce and save (OneDrive) and now they’re trying to get their hands on what you think (what you ask Copilot) and the conclusions you come to (Copilot’s generated response).
They can know and control anything they want.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 16 hours ago
You can do that Microslop. It’s not exactly possible for me to not use your software even harder at this point.
THB@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Question as someone who keeps being prevented from switching to Linux because of professional programs that are only Win/Mac.
I often read that you can just use Wine? So I would be in a Linux environment for everything and when I need to use a Windows program it can be run via Wine without leaving that environment?
Or is it a case of having to switch OS’s whenever I need to? Am I confusing that with dual-boot?
nublug@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
you have a few options. yes, wine. also, lutris and bottles. these all act as ‘make windows app run like any other app on my linux machine’. if those don’t work for your program then you can try installing a windows virtual machine with virt-manager. if you’re familiar with docker, check out dockur/windows for a docker container that automates a quick win vm setup with a webgui. (disclaimer: i have not tried this project yet, don’t know how well it works)
if you need heavy gpu use, however, you might have to dual-boot. you have linux installed on one disk partition and windows installed on another. you pick which one you want with the grub bootloader menu that shows when you start up. you can only run one at a time and must reboot to switch. it’s highly recommended to install windows first, then linux, and familiarize yourself with repairing grub with a linux liveusb as windows updates frequently break it.
imho almost any professional software should work with wine/lutris/bottles/vm, but dual boot is there if you find it necessary.
also consider if you actually do need those particular pro programs. there are likely multiple foss (free and open source software) projects that do whatever it is you need to do. of course if it’s a case of company policy mandating use of certain programs there’s not much you can do besides dual-boot.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
Think of wine as an emulator. It’s a program that runs in Linux that then runs Windows programs. Usually quite well. It’s all done without leaving Linux.
Dual boot is when you start the computer up you can either boot into Linux or Windows, both are options but they don’t run at the same time.
nil@piefed.ca 16 hours ago
Keep in mind that Wine Is Not an Emulator. It implements many windows features but it’s incomplete. Be sure to check if whatever the professional software you’re using also works on Wine.
Or you could run Windows in an actual emulator (like Qemu). I remember it worked pretty well on 16GB of RAM.
skvlp@lemmy.wtf 16 hours ago
There is also the possibility of running other OS in a virtual machine. Like www.virtualbox.org
If you do that you don’t leave Linux, but spin up an environment where you can have a full installation of i.e. Windows running. Your Windows environment is not aware of Linux, which it is hosted on, and should behave like a normal Windows machine.
I may sound complicated, but is pretty easy to use when you get going. Try watching a few videos on the subject if you are interested.
goatinspace@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Lutris, vmware
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 hours ago
No regrets on switching to Linux here. Almost all of the time I just use the GUI to launch steam or Firefox. No AI nagging me (aside from whatever nonsense Firefox is up to)
adarza@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
… which, in firefox, is either off by default or can be switched off.
aarRJaay@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
How long until it starts deleting files at random. Or uploading their content to MS servers. You’re screwed if you’re on Windows at this point.
teft@piefed.social 17 hours ago
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axh@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
“Rico!”
“Kaboom?”
“Yes Rico, kaboom!”
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
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zen@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
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