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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 Grimblewald »

krige wrote: post #176
tapoxi wrote: post #126

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https://bazzite.gg/ Should work out of the box, no configuration needed. The only caveat is games with kernel based anti-cheat, but I don't play many of those. Arc Raiders works just fine, for example.

I'm sorry but linux gaming absolutely does not support "support everything from 90s to cutting edge modern games without hiccups" I'm sure for some users it's acceptable, solid even, but I know several people, including myself, that keep hitting edge cases and invisible walls when on Windows these games "just work". And no, it's not about kernel anti-cheats or any other DRM.

Neither does windows tbh. You're not getting most early 2000s let alone 90s games working on W11 without a lot of time and effort having gone into getting it to work. E.g. try run original (not gog) vampire masqurade bloodlines, or black and white without the community patches running. Running both in original form is feasible on linux, but straight up not possible on w11 without patches.

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

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Post by sdoering »

wkat4242 wrote: post #619
sdoering wrote: post #510

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Why should anyone feel anything offensive about that? Or why would anyone get offended over this? I really do not understand what the issue would be.

The whole "porn is a poison to society" narrative is very strong with conservatives now. A lot of them (here in Holland even) want it banned like it's Afghanistan and for everyone to have a family with lots of kids that has their dinner at 6pm after prayer. I also don't subscribe to that. I'm polyamorous and sex-positive. And very LGBTIQ friendly. But I've seen that attitude a lot even in Europe :( especially from th…

Couldn't agree more. I am cis-het in a long relationship, childfree by choice.

But don't think conservative ideology/politics is about making their rules your rules. Or at least being bound by their rules. I mean: If Musk doesn't like what someone says, they get blocked from Twitter (or in case of German political parties, downranked, so that the far right is ranking higher/being recommended more often on X). But they (like Musk) claim "free speech" for themselves. Meaning, they want to say what they feel like without consequences.

I found this interesting "law" by Frank Wilhoit:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

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

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Post by wkat4242 »

sdoering wrote: post #633
wkat4242 wrote: post #619

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The whole "porn is a poison to society" narrative is very strong with conservatives now. A lot of them (here in Holland even) want it banned like it's Afghanistan and for everyone to have a family with lots of kids that has their dinner at 6pm after prayer. I also don't subscribe to that. I'm polyamorous and sex-positive. And very LGBTIQ friendly. But I've seen that attitude a lot even in Europe :( especially from th…

Couldn't agree more. I am cis-het in a long relationship, childfree by choice. But don't think conservative ideology/politics is about making their rules your rules. Or at least being bound by their rules. I mean: If Musk doesn't like what someone says, they get blocked from Twitter (or in case of German political parties, downranked, so that the far right is ranking higher/being recommended more often on X). But the…

Well in my country (Holland) I see a lot more hate. Even when I wear a rainbow wristband in June I get insulted by groups of extreme right guys. This didn't use to happen.

The thing is if you're not protected you don't really have free speech.

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

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

ItsBob wrote: post #409
pndy wrote: post #210

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Does LTSC comes with respectable default settings or that's still a matter of setting up system?

I'm replying to you from Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC courtesy of massgravel (or massgrave... not sure wth it's actually called now!) and it's activated until 2038. The only thing it didn't have out of the box that I wanted was Microsoft Store (so that I could install Winget and Terminal) but you install it from an elevated powershell command with "wsreset -i" and that's it done. It also has the original version of…

I still use a similar version of Windows 7 — licensed offline through an old enterprise activation. It just works for its specific purposes.

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

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Post by autoexec »

graemep wrote: post #627
monegator wrote: post #411

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Yes. The two applications i miss on my linux boxes are notepad++ (though Kate is a good substitute) and GitExtensions

Out of curiosity, what does notepad++ have that kate of other texteditors does not? Looking at the features there does not seem to be anything special, but a lot of people seem to love it so there is clearly something special about it.

For me it's the TextFX menu and the MIME Tools plug in. They offer very easy access to lots of handy features like changing case (upper, lower, proper, sentence, invert), remove/swap/replace quotes ('/"), removing trailing spaces, non-printable characters, and blank lines (or just extra blank lines), base64/URL/HTML/ROT13/UU encoding/decoding, all kinds of decimal/hex/binary/octal/text conversions, add/remove escapes, etc.

Having so much there in just a couple clicks is very nice!

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

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Post by commakozzi »

pjmlp wrote: post #522
bluescrn wrote: post #482

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Yet Apple can find decent developers to work with their Apple-specific tools+tech. Yeah, there's been complaints about some Apple's old polish and consistency being lost, but it's usually very nitpicky stuff, nothing compared to the complaints about Win11.

Have you actually tried out Tahoe with Liquid Glass?

It's my daily driver. I have zero problems with it. I don't mind the Liquid Glass UX. I'm not blindly anti-Apple though, neither am I a fanboi. I've just legitimately not had any problems. There have been minor bugs, etc., but nothing broken. Definitely night and day from Win11....

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

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Post by 1718627440 »

dspillett wrote: post #594
wtallis wrote: post #559

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Don't play along by calling it "toast". It's a pop-up that's been re-branded to avoid the stigma of the old name, exactly like what companies do to themselves after causing a disaster like an oil spill.

You are conflating two similar but different UI elements. A popup is a larger object, often a full window, that covers large parts of other elements or sometimes the entire screen. They are sometimes modal. A toast is a smaller element, appearing (often by sliding into view upwards, hence the cutesy name) in or above a specific notification area of the application or the overall OS. These are much smaller, seldom mod…

To me the first would be called a modal window or a message box, while the latter is what I would call a popup. I guess different exposure with different UI kits.

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

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Post by mafuy »

anthk wrote: post #589
wolvesechoes wrote: post #581

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I am not sure why you've put so much effort, but thank you for confirming my views on Linux people.

Is not about Linux, I don't use that Unix branch. I don't click neither on menues nor buttons. It's about usability and automation, something utterly lacking under Windows. Once you can use any remote or local filesystem seamlessly with your own scripts spawning at events, you are 90% done.

I've switched all my machines to linux in the past couple years.

I say with confidence that you will never be able to do file operations as quickly in a terminal as you could in a good GUI, like the Explorer from Windows 2000.

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

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Post by 1718627440 »

ako wrote: post #203
hulitu wrote: post #167

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> Windows NT Windows NT what ? Microsoft was always the same.

Windows NT -> Experience what a good microsoft OS was. Especially around NT 3.1, NT 3.5 their goal seemed mostly to have a good competing OS.

What do you mean 'was'? Isn't the current Windows still Windows NT?
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