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My non Linux savvy spouse is currently dual booting Linux Mint because Windows has become so frustrating to use.
Mint isn't perfect. We've run into a few bugs and shortcomings. But there's a big difference between dealing with genuine issues in an OS and using one that feels actively hostile and designed to exploit the user.
If both experiences can be frustrating, why choose the one that's frustrating by design (unless you absolutely have to) ?
Instead they made me addicted to Linux.
Yeah every time I get on my laptop it's a little more unrecognisable and unusable to me. Will be getting in Linux as soon as I get a chance.
What’s stopping you so far?
Time more than anything, im only on it about 2 hours once a month
Gotta produce dopamine for that to happen. Not cortisol.
Hahahaha suck it, Microslop. I look forward to your Chapter 11 filing.
That shit should set off alarm bells of all regulators… but we elect people who don’t give a fuck so…
I will never EVER give an AI agency over any of my personal accounts.
You are not the target audience.
Oh we're the target, just not the customer.
Only Scout believed in himself.
Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time's the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We'll see what they call number four.
"A little sign in here, a touch of wifi there..."
That's all I know of Cortana.
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You forgot clippy, but everyone forgets about clippy unless it's in this exact context. Or it's Norfolk wizard game.
Is there any fundamental diffidence between Copilot and Scout, or is it just a straight up rebranding?
You forgot they called it Bing in the middle too
Cortana was actually really good on Windows Phone but they dumbed it down and added all sort of crap to it by the time it was integrated onto the desktop. They could've doubled down on whatads it good but nope.
Did they try making it good?
That's the beauty of it (from their viewpoint), they don't have to make it good, just unavoidable.
yes, good at self-destructing.
Create a captive audience through monopoly or near monopoly on a given market, then charge them more for a worse version of the product, reducing costs and maximizing profits, it's always been the goal with corporate capitalism, look at the whole Copilot and GitHub situation right now.
microslop can fuck off.
I think you mean to say: "microslop can slop off"
Microfuck can slop off.
Fuckroslop can slop off.
Sloprofuck can fuck slop
do you really wanna be admitting that addiction is your goal?
A $6 Million Jury Verdict Ruled Social Media Is Addictive.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/03/30/a-6-million-jury-verdict-ruled-social-media-is-addictive-now-what/
That kind of fine is a pittance.
true. but this one wasn't a class action, either.. just one plaintiff.
adding new "features"
look inside
enshittification
looks inside" its all AI, nothing but AI"
Duh. I wouldn't have called it "addiction", but dependency was clearly the goal, otherwise they wouldn't take away classical search.
I thought that was obvious from the start.
Well, Microsoft, if you want that, put more cocaine in it.
Congratz you are the first person to successfully sell AI to me.
At least they're honest (internally) about their intentions. Obviously this is also the goal of the other big AI foundries; it either already is or it will be in the future.
Luckily Microsoft is famously bad at this, but Google and perhaps OpenAI will be more successful. We're still in the subsidized honeymoon phase, but this window is closing with the increasing pressure to return profit.
As a skeptic, I'm not worried about myself, but I'm scared for the people who will get addicted and then ruined by full prices or devastated when their mind drug is taken away again.
seems like google and OPENAI have the same problems, just as a slower decline. google trying to force gemini into all thier services. anthropoic isnt doing any better either.
Legitimately most modern games or all of social media.
Never heard of Scout or seen the logo, but that's a big swirly poo, right? I'm not crazy, am I? This feels like being punked.
It's most definitely a poo.
addictive? hahahahah. Poor Microsoft. Everything started going wrong for them when they got rid of Clippy.
Uhh yeah thats the long term profit concept of LLMs, force them onto people for free until they cant live without them, then jack up the price. Its been pretty obvious...
Knowing Microslop, I'm not too worried. They'll either scrap the idea before implementing it or make it so shitty people won't use it. Let them try for the shits n giggles.
its like trying to make people like fly agaric.
NOBODY WANTS TO WORK (on loving scout) ANYMORE!!!
Attention economy. Gotta fight it or gotta leave it for something better.
