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Part your point about enterprise and mission critical software is that Microsoft is well aware of their biggest customers. Whatever agentic bloatware they will be adding here, it will absolutely be configurable via group policy.
Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
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#32I could not get into the article, but the wayback machine can https://web.archive.org/web/20251118002918/https://www.windo... If people do not want this spyware, we all here know what OS they can move to :)
You mean Windows 95, right?
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#34I've been aggressively firewalling Windows machine for ages now. Something like https://www.binisoft.org/wfc.php makes it easy to deal with. Any executable like Copilot will never get access to the internet.
but what i dont understand is if windows is such a disaster with their privacy policies, why would you trust their built in firewall to stop them? its all about trust.
Because fiddling with Windows firewall settings is a power user feature that only a fraction of a percent of users will touch. If it ever becomes more widely used, then I agree, all bets are off.
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#35It's an agentic OS now. It acts as an agent on behalf of Microsoft and its business partners, and against your interests.
it's been like that since release of Windows 10
just now it's more overt
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#36That Simpsons meme with Principal Skinner where it's like "Could it be that going against the user on every single step and every single product isn't good for the longterm health of my company? No. It's the users who are out of touch."
With every single tech company, these days
If there was accountability these people might be in jail
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You don't, but oh boy, the experience is worth it. Bazzite[1] has it quirks but it mostly works fine in desktops. [1] https://bazzite.gg/
Imo if you just have a regular desktop PC, use Ubuntu/Fedora, not a dedicated 'gaming' distro. Bazzite's good as a stand in for steam os on non Valve handhelds, but Steam and Proton work just fine on a regular boring Linux distro.
Bazzite is a lot less messing around though. Stock standard fedora doesn't have the drivers needed for modern xbox controllers. Doesn't have a controller usable interface, etc.
If your PC is connected to a TV than Bazzite is a much better experience.
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#39>For example, if you ask ChatGPT’s Agent to book a travel, it’ll open Chromium on Linux in an Azure container, search the query, visit different websites, navigate each page and book a flight ticket using your saved credentials. An AI Agent tries to mimic a human, and it can perform tasks on your behalf while you sit back and relax.
Big tech has repeatedly shown that they are not good stewards of end users' privacy and agency. You'd have to have been born yesterday to believe they'd build AI systems that truly serve the user's best interests like this.
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