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> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.
WTF!! JFC CotEditor on Mac is the closest to Notepad I’ve felt in years. Gotta wonder what the end game at Microsoft is.
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> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.
This is the funniest thing, considering it lacks 90% of the features included freeware text editors written in some student's spare time back in the 90s. It's basically a fancy textbox. Microsoft's own people can't use the toolkits they write, as evidenced by the React component in the start menu(!)
That was the lure.
But the real Notepad has been decommissioned and there is some bloated one now.
That's the start of the end of Windows. People don't want getting spied, and Linux is ready.
Linux is absolutely ready to spy too! The infrastructure is all in there and non-removable: dbus broacasts anything happening in the system, systemd starts background services by it's own and auto-updates are the norm. Last time I tried Ubuntu, it had popularity-contest installed by default. Apparently the scandal was big enough they removed it. [1] [1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/ubuntu-popularity-contes...
If you leave Windows to retain the control for your computing, choose any other GNU/Linux among many. I chose Debian.
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> Solitaire is now a subscription service That is a joke, right? Right??
Nope. Minesweeper, too. Well, the games are still free, the subscription is to remove the ads. But you have to subscribe for each game separately, and it's a per-device subscription. Yes, Microsoft really is that petty when it comes to nickel-and-diming users these days.
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Yeah the disapproval/disgust I'm seeing everywhere, from pretty much every side that I keep my eye on, about OpenAI enabling erotica generation with ChatGPT is so frustrating, because it seems like just Puritanism and censorship, and desiring to treat adults like children as you say.
It is not bad per se but in my opinion it shows that OpenAI is desperately trying to stop bleeding money.
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I’d pay good money to disable that feature and keep my pc as is. Or I’ll have to swap to Steam OS
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> shown they don't respect the user when they force shutdown for system updates Are you familiar with the prior state of things that explicitly motivated this change?
Why does that matter? I should be allowed to explicitly chose the risks I want to take. Not microsoft. Especially not for microsoft to decide, no matter what I'm doing, or what I have open and unsaved on my computer, now is the time they think my risk is too great and tuesday has passed, so reboot reboot reboot.
It might still be bad thing for taking away agency. But it was also a massive improvement to society.
Microsoft has gone full-blown evil corporation again. No customer validation on any of the AI cruft. No full OPT OUT. Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. I've been a Windows user from day one and I now see a future without it. Satya had been a bright spot in Microsoft, but this blind lust for AI, especially in bed with Altman who is pure con artist, is unforgivable. Some of the investment…
I can't even write a top example why. Just take a glance at the documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft
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This is the funniest thing, considering it lacks 90% of the features included freeware text editors written in some student's spare time back in the 90s. It's basically a fancy textbox. Microsoft's own people can't use the toolkits they write, as evidenced by the React component in the start menu(!)
They can, the problem is that apparently they aren't able to hire people nowadays with Win32 development experience, so they get interns that have grown in US universities with macOS and Linux, which sundenly have a Win32 developer role. That is how you end up with web garbage in what was supposed to be native code, or .NET. I think this is also a reason why WinUI efforts went down the drain.