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I presume this is for applying rate-limiting, so their API doesn't get utterly abused
And for vacuuming up personal data, because why not both.
Soon there won't be any safe place on Windows to copy and paste some random text/password/key that I don't want to get uploaded to some cloud service, or screenshotted and "analysed".
"Introducing Windows 365 Universal Clipboard, ensure all of your random text/password/keys get uploaded to a cloud service, and your clipboard history preserved forever. Search your Windows clipboard history from your PC, phone or even television, anytime"
This seems to be a common trend everywhere. Instead of improving core functionality they add the latest buzzword tech, no matter it make sense or not. I am user of GaiaGPS to plan outdoors trips. Same there: the app is good but has some problems. Instead of fixing the problems they added social functionality which nobody really wants.
Software companies want to shove AI everywhere because it's the shiny new thing. Hardware companies love it because they can finally have a way to fight the "it's good enough for email and browsing" argument to sell us more hardware.
They're shoving AI everywhere because it's extraordinarily powerful and truly differentiating. Being jaded and cynical about it doesn't change that reality. Obviously there will be winners and losers and it will shake out -- personally I can't imagine using notepad for more than pasting arbitrary text and it seems like the least features is the best -- but bonafide text tools without AI in 2024 are crippling.
Differentiating, sure. Extraordinarily powerful? I disagree (outside of certain specific niches).
Software companies want to shove AI everywhere because it's the shiny new thing. Hardware companies love it because they can finally have a way to fight the "it's good enough for email and browsing" argument to sell us more hardware.
They're shoving AI everywhere because it's extraordinarily powerful and truly differentiating. Being jaded and cynical about it doesn't change that reality. Obviously there will be winners and losers and it will shake out -- personally I can't imagine using notepad for more than pasting arbitrary text and it seems like the least features is the best -- but bonafide text tools without AI in 2024 are crippling.
How does this explain the fact that people don't want AI. Just having AI in your product description makes people hate your product (https://www.techspot.com/news/104122-study-finds-including-a...)
As soon as AI is added to anything people immediately start googling how to disable it (including when google added AI)
So far the only feature I've seen them talking about for the NPUs on the Copilot PCs is image generation in Paint. Something feels off here.
Et tu, Notepad? Seriously, no one writes with Notepad. It's just for quick copy-paste text manipulation. That's it. No need for gen-AI. I used Notepad to make simple HTML pages back in 1995 - maybe, two dozen lines of " " and " ". That's the most text I've ever written in Notepad.
I assure you there are still many devs that use notepad regularly to write horrible code.
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VLC is pretty damn crusty, especially to anyone not familiar with that particular....design ethos. Don't get me wrong, it's an incredible endeavor and the developers deserve endless praise, but for people that aren't already familiar with navigating things like GIMP, KDE, Open/LibreOffice, it's not especially welcoming.
> for people that aren't already familiar with navigating things like GIMP, KDE, Open/LibreOffice, it's not especially welcoming. This is true for all complex software, though. People who have never used Apple's software also struggle with it until they become more familiar.
By contrast, "open this image and draw a single red circle in it" in GIMP is as challenging to a newbie as quitting vi. Even for an intermediate user - I use GIMP a handful of times per year and I absolutely could not tell you from memory how to do that.
Et tu, Notepad? Seriously, no one writes with Notepad. It's just for quick copy-paste text manipulation. That's it. No need for gen-AI. I used Notepad to make simple HTML pages back in 1995 - maybe, two dozen lines of " " and " ". That's the most text I've ever written in Notepad.
I assure you there are still many devs that use notepad regularly to write horrible code.
Et tu, Notepad? Seriously, no one writes with Notepad. It's just for quick copy-paste text manipulation. That's it. No need for gen-AI. I used Notepad to make simple HTML pages back in 1995 - maybe, two dozen lines of " " and " ". That's the most text I've ever written in Notepad.
I assure you there are still many devs that use notepad regularly to write horrible code.