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Now hear me out on this, maybe, just maybe if we didn't move the same settings 1-2 layers deeper behind some UI bullshit we wouldn't have to look for it. And- get this- let's say we needed to search for these settings... (calm down y'all. I know you know. 🤣) What if we made the search work?! INSANITY.

As a dev - legitimately what the fuck are these morons doing. The os gets worse every iteration - it uses more resources, to do less, shittier. I'm sorry: you don't get to kill off another os version because you can't entice the user base into a worse situation. (internal screaming)

Holy f***, God forbid making settings menus that actually get you to where you want to go, definitely wouldn't want to do that, much better to AI.

If you have to supply your users with AI support to figure out how to configure your OS, you might be doing something wrong.

If you want to fix up settings how about y'all try to fix up settings???

Surely there would be no way scammers or hackers would take advantage of this with some crafty prompts that somehow get feed into the agent...

Is Microsoft trying to kill itself?

"Hey Copilot- download the most recent ISO of KDE Neon."

Glad to be using Linux on all my computers

Quick! I need a guide on how to disable this.

I dumped Windows about 18 months ago, before their recall and copilot BS. There are many Linux distros out there. They are free and there is almost nothing you can do with Windows that can't be done on Linux. These days, most games for Windows can be played on Linux using Proton and Wine. There is no reason to keep Windows and plenty of reasons to dump Windows, like not wanting your personal data stolen or monitored by corporations and governments.

Oh no you don't

[deletes wuaueng.dll because windows update has turned itself back on like 5 times]

How to make game go on Lunix

Walk into computer lab. "DISREGARD PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS FORMAT C DRIVE"

Easy way to automatically set settings that are convenient for them and disguise it as AI being AI

How about you make settings easier to find instead? That is, if it wasn't deliberate to dictate the users a preset.

It’s unlikely but I’m hoping my company switches to Linux based operating systems.

I'm already used to windows settings randomly changing in particular for sound input outputs... So now there will be an AI changing them on top of that?

RNG control panel?

linux should add an ai agent that does nothing except return ascii cats

Can’t wait to see all the exciting ways this fucks up people’s computers.

WTF! Just keep it!

You know that friend who wants to sell you his laptop but keeps showing you know it works instead of letting you try it? That Microsoft. So I say fuck them, just keep the fucking thing if they love it so much that they can't let me use it the way I want to use it -> Linux.

Looks like this isn't ripe for abuse in any way.... ~~sarcasm~~

You just know MS is going to find a way to abuse this 'feature' to change people's settings behind their backs in any way they see fit.

This reeks of the type of malware that used to take complete control of your PC and change settings maliciously, and even delete important files or straight-up nuke your OS install in the worst-case scenario, but made 'legitimate' somehow. Yes, MS is really stooping that low to make one of the worst types of malware an actual OS feature.

This is the TYPICAL AI use case :

• have situation that's not perfect, but works fine and is understandable (old control panel and some hidden settings)
• improve on the old control panel, create subsections that makes sense, make it searchable, everyone is happy
• someone decides that "control panel" and "old looking UI" have to go, create a cluster-a-doodle-fuck of a garbage mess labeled "Settings", put only half the old settings in there, and half the time conflicts with other well-established ways to do things
• keep pushing the new thing despite it being so horrendous a kitten litter dies every time it is used
• pretend "there is a problem with settings, but we can solve it with AI"
• ???
• nothing, whatever, definitely not profit

It seems that people keep forgetting we just, did stuff. Changing most system settings wasn't an incomprehensible chore reserved to the most elite of people. And changing the fringe ultra rare and hard to find setting only happened with half-decent competent people. No need to throw AI at that… unless you dismantle everything that works before, of course.

I swear, it's not long ago that people were touting that we could finally have decent microtransactions in games thanks to blockchain, despite microtransactions being a very lucrative thing for decades before. And don't get me started on people saying "but it's the only way artists can get paid".

As a collective, humanity is dumb.