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Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by squigz »

realo wrote: post #315
malfist wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well... this is similar to COVID. As long as your computer is disconnected from any network, yes you should be able to do whatever you want and decide. But as soon as your computer can be a danger for others, then your risk taking decisions can harm others, and then what? Masks during covid were a matter of public health. Regular updates are also a similar matter.

It's truly absurd to compare "my computer might be hacked and used by baddies" to "I don't want to wear a mask during a pandemic"

It's not a comparison that bears a response.

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Post by tetrisgm »

fsflover wrote: post #307
tetrisgm wrote: post #226

I’d pay good money to disable that feature and keep my pc as is. Or I’ll have to swap to Steam OS

Pay someone to install and configure Linux then.

I’m perfectly capable. I find windows better overall. This might be the tipping point

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 »

saltwatercowboy wrote: post #323
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect this may be one of those predictions that may not quite pan out. I am not saying it is a given, but never is about as unlikely.

...Why?

Because always/never are absolutes that are either very easy or very hard to see through. For example, 'I will never die', 'I will never tell a lie', 'I will never eat a pie' all suffer through this despite dying being the most implausible. And it gets worse as we get most abstract:

'Machine will always know where to go from here on now'.

Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by tetrisgm »

herbst wrote: post #271
tetrisgm wrote: post #226

I’d pay good money to disable that feature and keep my pc as is. Or I’ll have to swap to Steam OS

Just do it really. Most people just say it, and will be back for the next feature to complain again

I’ve done it a few times. The gaming experience was lacking. I’m not a fan of virtualization and containers everywhere either, or having to enter my admin password every day.

I’ll wait for the Steam console OS to be live.

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Post by rockskon »

LooseMarmoset wrote: post #99
sitzkrieg wrote: post #72

windows 10 LTSC. the last remotely decent windows, i'm using it to the grave :-)

I would argue that Windows 2000 was the last decent version of Windows. Fast, non-bloated, ran DirectX and games better than Windows 98 ever did, and as stable an operating system as I'd ever run.

I recall it getting a BSOD fairly often.

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Post by krige »

int_19h wrote: post #295
krige wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't. Case in point is my spare late 00's laptop running mint and early 00's / late 90's games. Some (Age of Wonders 1) don't work at all under wine/proton. Others (Age of Wonders SM, dosbox games, Majesty) technically work but keep hitting snags like midi just flat out not working, display resolution being read and set incorrectly, visual artifacts. Everything tested worked perfectly fine under Win7 and Win10.

Age of Wonders 1 used to work. That patch that you need to get it running on Win10+ was originally made for Wine: https://aow.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/forums/display.cgi?actio... Is that not sufficient these days? I might take another look; this is one of those games that I intend to keep running one way or another until I die.

It isn't I'm afraid. I'll see if I get any crash log or report that could help later in the evening.

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Post by alentred »

luke727 wrote: post #150
ChicagoDave wrote: post #127

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…

> Office products are bastardized with copilot buttons everywhere. They put copilot in notepad. NOTEPAD.

I bet it was the MVP. LOL

Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders

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Post by senfiaj »

LooseMarmoset wrote: post #99
sitzkrieg wrote: post #72

windows 10 LTSC. the last remotely decent windows, i'm using it to the grave :-)

I would argue that Windows 2000 was the last decent version of Windows. Fast, non-bloated, ran DirectX and games better than Windows 98 ever did, and as stable an operating system as I'd ever run.

IMHO XP and 7 were the pinnacles.

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Post by bondarchuk »

Neil44 wrote: post #225
Springtime wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And this W11 version of Notepad takes longer to open than Sublime Text and about equal to Firefox. On NVMe. It used to be instant , which is something you really notice the difference with when it changes.

The only reason I use Notepad is that it opens instantly. A fancy think with loads of features that's slow to open should be a new product.

That was WordPad, right? Except it also loaded instantly, probably.
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