• Brewchin@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Microslop going full “the beatings will continue until morale improves” with their ensloppification of everything they touch, I see.

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      27 days ago

      They’re already changing the name of MS Office to “Microsoft Copilot App”. So when you use Copilot inside Microsoft Office on Windows, you’ll be running Copilot in the Copilot App on Copilot OS.

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        “Microsoft Windows App” confused the shit out of me earlier. I only realised it was Remote Desktop when I read the description, and I only did that because I was wondering what the fuck Microsoft Windows App is.

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      27 days ago

      “I know we said Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows you’d need, but we really mean it this time with Windows 11. Introducing our new operating system… Compost, I mean, Copilot!”

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      28 days ago

      Users: File search should not be this bad
      Microsoft: How about this bad?

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      26 days ago

      You don’t understand … you have to talk to file explorer and convince it you really need that file and then talk it into searching for it. (Makes sense … would YOU like to go into onedrive and try to find something ???)

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    28 days ago

    Explorer already crashes enough without this.

    Why don’t they work on Explorer’s awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?

    You know, useful software development work?

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      27 days ago

      Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

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        27 days ago

        ive run dual boot systems to prolong the life of older lenovo notebooks, leaving windows up for some proprietary software id need for work… if this comes to pass though, im fucking GONE. Ill sooner use macOS than anything with a fucking llm looking at the files on my hard drive 👉

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    27 days ago

    Soon in the Microslop support forums: “Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive”.

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      27 days ago

      The agent has decided you need more OneDrive storage. Your credit card will be charged. If you disagree with the agent, grandma’s pictures will be deleted. Comply and rent Batman the Dark Knight Arises on the Windows Store.

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      27 days ago

      It probably “saw” the trash icon somewhere and some “deep thought” model concluded that erasing everything was a good idea.

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    28 days ago

    It’s metastasizing. There must really be big profit and privacy-invading upsides for MS in this whole mess, since it sure as shit is not being driven by consumer demand.

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      27 days ago

      Imagine knowing what every user is doing? What they read, what they play? What pictures they take? What websites they prefer? Where they get their news? Who they speak with? Their social graph? Where they shop? How often? What their finances look like? Who they work for? What they do for them? How connected they are? How that company is doing? What their quarterly report look like before they make it public? What their plans are for those upcoming layoffs? Who they do business with for importing? What the next big thing they’re designing is?

      What Microsoft is attempting to do is to create a planned economy that only benefits the rich. They’re trying to do the thing they always complain is bad about Communism, but do it in a way that gives the rich people control.

      We are living in a trap and Microsoft must be eradicated from all computers and networks. OpenAI too.

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      28 days ago

      There are thousands of data brokers but we don’t really know to who Evil corp is selling data

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    27 days ago

    Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying “look at all the AI we’re doing” and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?

    I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They’re spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?

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      Copilot is falling very far behind all of the other big AI players in the space that it’s actually laughable. The main reason they’re implementing it into every Windows first party application is so they can boost their “user” numbers to satisfy investors. Every time you open Explorer, boom that counts as you “using” Copilot.

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        27 days ago

        I asked DeepSeek something the other day and it actually admitted that it didn’t know the answer and offered advice on how I could find out. I was actually pretty impressed by that

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        27 days ago

        Down last few months, but overall strong upwards trend over the last few years.

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      27 days ago

      Nadella’s buddies are all making AI garbage, so he thinks he has to make AI garbage too. Because he’s massively uncreative.

      And so all the managing leads think “Nadella likes AI! I must find a way to shove AI into my product so that my product/fiefdom doesn’t get the axe! I might even get a bonus! Or promotion!!!”

      And so all the coding slaves are tasked with shoehorning AI into every Microsoft product, app, and/or service.

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    27 days ago

    Gotta pump up those usage numbers somehow. Before long, it’ll be on the login screen

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    27 days ago

    I have to use Windows 11 for my school computer, not allowed to change the OS. I didn’t realize how shit awful explorer had gotten between 10 and 11. For anyone reading this who has to use 11: there are explorer alternatives. I use OneCommander and it let me change the default explorer for shortcuts and when other programs bring things up like with “show in folder” options. I don’t have to use windows explorer anymore and while it’s no Linux at least it doesn’t have fucking copilot and it gives me back basic control

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      27 days ago

      It may not be helpful enough and getting on in age (maybe others know of something similar), but there is a mod called OldNewExplorer that you can run and choose to modify a few elements of Explorer. I’ve used it to change the details pane from the side back to the bottom of the window.