this is going to cause so much data loss...
this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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Every single story about windows 11 makes me hope I can convince IT to let me migrate my work laptop to linux before October.
I'm a senior IT type. My work laptop is Debian.
We like good pastries, coffee, good booze and feeling appreciated. Go make friends with the senior IT types and the help desk manager. Trust me it's with it.
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Don't get me wrong - this is awful and is just another misstep in a long line of missteps by Microsoft.
But I also can't help but chuckle at this. It is so clear that "AI" as it has been developed today is hitting a peak of what it can do. These corporations are desperate to shove it in every product they possibly can to drive sales and valuations to make shareholders wet and yet the only things they ever advertise AI being capable of are crap like summaries, background removal, background insertion, grammar/typo checking, list making, web searching, etc. Most of it being crap that I have never once heard of a person being even remotely interested in... and why would they be? Why would someone want to edit their photos to add a different sky, new people, etc to create memories that never happened?
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I'm so glad I've been moving away from windows recently
Same. I finally dumped Windows 10 on my gaming PC for LMDE6 a few months ago, and I already see massive benefits. It runs games faster, I can do anything I want with it, including multiple simultaneous user sessions, and can even admin the thing entirely from my phone via Cockpit or plain ol' SSH (VPN/local network only, of course).
Article doesn't state this but I assume this is done via Copilot, so anything you use it on goes direct to Microsoft cloud, right?
Some Copilot functions are done locally on some computers with the appropriate NPU chips. But it's Microsoft, so they'll be sending data home either way.
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I am generally opposed to the integration of generative AI in consumer hardware, since it doesn’t have much practical utility at this point.
However, the features described in this article mostly have to do with extracting information from images. This is actually quite useful! For example, macOS allows users to select text and automatically mask objects from images. It’s a feature I use heavily and wish other operating systems had good support for.
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Worst part is people will keep using this garbage. The brain rot is so real.
People will always gravitate towards tools that make their lives easier. That's never gong to change, and is a driving force behind why we have the technology we do now.
That said, this AI shit is clearly not ready for primetime. I do not trust it to have access to my files. Machine learning and LLMs have their place - my phone's keyboard (FUTO Keyboard) runs a local LLM model that learns my swiping/typing habits and trains the predictive text feature on that data - but that's a very specialized application, and I have control over it.
I'm not really talking about LLMs or ML in general. I'm talking about capitalism and enshitification.
I use LLMs every day from the comfort of my Linux systems.
I just get happier with each passing month that I don't use windows anymore. The freedom of having my hardware and data no longer serving the corporate interests of the operating system vendor is great.
Microsoft will have AI tracking everything I do and taking screenshots as well. Just what I have been asking for. /s