The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam Go to This PC>Program Files (x86) and then search "copilot". Cry. Then delete it all.
There's update and setup programs and a ton of files like "copilotdata", "identity_helper" etc
@pluralistic is right, this shit is the asbestos of the software world. I bet all that comes back with each windows update
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam It's because it was never ever about what we actually want. It was always about what they perceive as a thing that will someday make them lots of money if they push it hard enough and more and more they're seeing it not make that money so they're pushing harder and harder with a fast growing desperation. (And wow are they getting desperate. Anyone with 1/100th of a brain would realize by now it's never going to make the money they think it is. But CEOs and board members aren't hired for their brains...)
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam I doubt we can get permission, but a giant funeral pyre for the copilot logo in the parking lot at DEFCON might make us all feel better. Kind of like Burning Man, but much more cathartic.
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam clippy?
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam@defcon.social the only thing that comes close is clippy.
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam I switched to IoT LTSC just to avoid this crap getting auto-forced into the system.
The complete lack of opt-in is the most infuriating thing. It's my computer not Microsoft's.
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam Every software that pivoted to subscription instead of purchase and own.
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam I have a policy to not send email when cranky, or worse. Yesterday, I failed to follow that policy.
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam yes, imperialism.
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam Switch to Linux...
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam X10?
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam Whenever somebody tells me how he used AI to do something, I have to think of this comic:
(Source: https://www.twonks.co.uk)
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam I'm genuinely puzzled by the heightened emotions that these tools appear to elicit when some users install them, and how their reactions are not directed at the companies that produce them.
I swear I've never seen that icon pop up when using my computer.
Install something else?
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam Come join us on Linux.... It just works.
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Why do think I switched to Linux?
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@deviantollam Go to This PC>Program Files (x86) and then search "copilot". Cry. Then delete it all.
There's update and setup programs and a ton of files like "copilotdata", "identity_helper" etc
@pluralistic is right, this shit is the asbestos of the software world. I bet all that comes back with each windows update
@SomeAmateur @deviantollam @pluralistic not allowed on work laptop
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@deviantollam It's because it was never ever about what we actually want. It was always about what they perceive as a thing that will someday make them lots of money if they push it hard enough and more and more they're seeing it not make that money so they're pushing harder and harder with a fast growing desperation. (And wow are they getting desperate. Anyone with 1/100th of a brain would realize by now it's never going to make the money they think it is. But CEOs and board members aren't hired for their brains...)
@nazokiyoubinbou @deviantollam I will say to Microsoft's credit(?), the CEO of Xbox said they were gonna put some sort of AI nonsense into Game Pass, but she was like "we see gamers' responses to AI we've decided not to go ahead with this".
granted, not to say they wont shoehorn it in later.
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam "Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen."
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The level of white-hot incandescent rage I now feel whenever anything AI related pops up on my screen (especially at the OS level) is nearly indescribable.
I can't recall literally ANY new technology that has been so widely hated and yet so universally thrust upon the public. Can you?
@deviantollam
i think putting a toolbar installer in the java updater came close
