Did you make that?
Isn’t that from 1984
It’s from an Apple commercial, which was an allusion to 1984
That’s what I am thinking of
No
No, I’m a lazy shite, I just did an image search for clippy 1984. I feel bad now I didn’t make more of an effort 😕
Don’t feel bad. I love it! Thanks for finding it and sharing it.
YA AWESOME CANT WAIT
There go all the government installs.
This will make Windows 11 a target for hacker and government agencies, since this will be treasure of data. Windows already is bad at security. Let’s see how this backfires at Microsoft.
Microsoft will be the “hackers”. On days when outside hackers aren’t breaking in, MS will be data mining and selling the data themselves
But they promised, that it will stay on my machine. I don’t think they would lie about something such important. /s
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It’s not going to get better. I nuked 10 and switched to Linux permanently around the Windows 11 launch. My only regret is not switching sooner, like around Windows 8 times.
In the 1990s, I transitioned from Windows to Linux as my primary operating system. Since then, Linux has consistently exhibited advancements in the desktop and software space, whereas Windows and Mac operating systems appear to have experienced a decline in terms of user experience and functionality.
As someone regularly using Arch, Ubuntu, MacOS and Windows I agree.
The advances Linux has made, especially in the last few years is just amazing. I can run the majority of my games through Proton, there are even some preconfigured packages with Illustrator and Photoshop CC that Adobe doesn‘t seem to care about at all.
I kept wondering what would keep me from updating to newer versions of Windows.
Yeahhhh…this is it. This and the inevitable forced Microsoft accounts that will come with this.
The Microsoft of the past was evil, but at least you could pay for an upgrade to the enterprise version that didn’t include this bullshit, but even the enterprise versions suffer from this stuff too!
I just reinstalled Windows 11 and holy shit was it hard to setup without a Microsoft account. Like they even use a fake boot up screen weeks later to “finish the install” to trick you into making an account. This can be deactivated, but it is still super shady.
Check out Windows Xlite’s windows 11 .iso’s. Post install almost feels like a fresh Win7 install.
Holy shit that’s annoying. Say I installed Win11 for my elderly parents. They’d get this sign-up screen after I would have thought everything was setup and ready to use.
Glad I installed elementary OS for them a few years ago, it’s been completely painless (they are used to apple-UX)
Nice. Upgraded a Thinkpad, installed Linux Mint and gave it to my dad. I have not heard anything from him about it for a couple of months. Was reminded of it with your post.
So wrote him right now and asked how it was going, and he replied that he loved it and uses it every day.
And that he had not had any problems he could not solve on his own. He’s 70 and a windows only heavy user - until now 🙂
As you said. Compelety painless.
Yup, I know what I’m doing, but someone else might have just assumed it was required. I was up and running for a week before a reboot sent me to the smiling windows install screen.
I found it’s a pretty simple “don’t ask to finish installing” switch in the settings, but escaping the install screen was the hard part. I think I had to do a hard power down and force safe mode to access the settings again.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The software giant on Monday revealed an upgraded version of Copilot, its AI assistant, as it confronts heightened competition from big tech rivals in pitching generative AI technology that can compose documents, make images and serve as a lifelike personal assistant at work or home.
The new features will include Windows Recall, enabling the AI assistant to “access virtually what you have seen or done on your PC in a way that feels like having photographic memory”.
Google rolled out a retooled search engine that periodically puts AI-generated summaries over website links at the top of the results page; while also showing off a still-in-development AI assistant Astra that will be able to “see” and converse about things shown through a smartphone’s camera lens.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI unveiled a new version of its chatbot last week, demonstrating an AI voice assistant with human characteristics that can banter about what someone’s wearing and even attempt to assess a person’s emotions.
Though Microsoft has invested billions in OpenAI, the startup also rolled out a new desktop version of ChatGPT designed for Apple’s Mac computers.
The Apple CEO Tim Cook signaled at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in February that it has been making big investments in generative AI.
The original article contains 419 words, the summary contains 205 words. Saved 51%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Ffs. Don’t you collect enough data from your users you greedy fucks?
Theoretically, according to MS, there is no data collection. It’s all on-device.
I mean…I highly doubt they’re not going to at least pulling aggregate data from this…
That might boil the frog too quickly. Especially considering the public backlash they’re reveiving.
Fair dues
If people actively pay for this, they are bloody idiots.
Well…guess there’s going to be loads of people paying for this then…
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Change is hard and expensive. Not to mention there aren’t a lot of good alternatives. Linux is good but the flexibility is also a potential drawback as there isn’t a standard way of doing things.
Not to mention a lot of business software runs on Windows and Windows alone. You will not get support for anything else.
a lot more of people’s and business use cases can already easily be on linux than we give it credit for though.
in the business side someone will sadly have to be the early adopter for the rest to come through.
There is literally no such thing as too much money in our society.
There is, though.
So this is simply a WEC but in someone else’s server.
“But they’ll be reserved for premium models starting at $999.”
Translation: “We want to start with the data of people that can spend, then we’ll move to the rest”.
The last Windows computer in my house was my wife’s, and she’s been extremely happy on Fedora Gnome for the last couple of months, asking me why I didn’t tell her about it before (I did, lol).
my girlfriends like fedora gnome too. I do all the technical stuff anyway so she really doesn’t have know to know that much about the os she uses
Same here. The only tweak I had to do was set up Flameshot, my wife finds Gnome’s screen shot app lacking, and so do I.
The only thing we run different is office. I set her up with OnlyOffice because of the similarities with MS office, but I prefer libreoffice.
TIL fedora gnome is the girlfriends choice.
There are certainly worse taglines lol
Yeah, fuck that.
