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submitted 2 months ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 103 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[+] anachrohack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Don't you understand that being constantly nagged to use their products so they can monotise you is disrespectful? Would you keep a friend who started every conversation with a pitch for their MLM? I mean you're not obligated!

I understand that it's just business, but to me that's just capitalist Nirenberg defense. So please don't respond with some version of "it is what it is", because I view that as learned helplessness.

EDIT: what Windows users might not get is that booting into Windows occasionally means that it's going to bombard you with an avalanche of pop ups and nag-dialogues that a person who's logging in every day might not appreciate.

Sure you can silence most of that, until the next necessary security update.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The overwhelming majority of the nags can be disabled permanently with the right configuration, in a way that isn't trampled on by updates.

The main issue is that because Microsoft doesn't have anywhere close to sane defaults, many people believe it isn't possible to configure sanely.

It also doesn't help that Microsoft has crossed the threshold where there's too many people using it who think they know what they're doing well enough to speak authoritatively about its "issues" when they don't. Lots of Dunning Kreuger going on.

And that MS torched a ton of their learning resources for desktop config and admin stuff when they went all in on the cloud and are only now recreating some of them.

And people try to use it outside of the intended use case then get frustrated that things get weird. It's configired to be a daily driver or at least powered on once a week for updates, of course if you only use it every few months things are going to suck. You'd get laughed at if you were using a hammer to drive screws, but Windows is supposed to just work anyway with no rough edges?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

One should never need to hack their own computer to disable nags. Full fucking stop.

[–] supamanc@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

An operating system isn't a car or a machine that needs to maintain running hours for optimal performance. If I have an operating system that I only need for one specific function, and only use it for that function, once or twice a month, there is no reason that that operating system should fail to do the one thing I need it to do every time I turn it on.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

An OS is like a car or a machine in the sense that it needs regular maintenance. You can ignore that regular maintenance at your own peril, but it's not the car manufacturer's fault if you refuse to change the oil. Or if you decide to camber your tires out to a ridiculous angle and it breaks the wheel bearings.

Stepping back from your analogy, the only way that Windows is going to fail to play your game because you haven't updated is if the game needs to update too. And if it's that important to you, you can disable updates entirely and only re-enable them when it suits you. Only booting up Windows once a month is pretty damn good use case for that. Disable updates, play your game, re-enable them and let it do its thing when you're done.

Windows is definitely not ideal, but there is a lot of people spreading learned helplessness solely for the sake of pushing Linux. Linux is absolutely better, but Windows is not some festering boil that provides the sensory equivalent of nails on chalkboard if you use it correctly/as designed.

Another big thing people complain about is ads in the various system utilities. Hell yes that's disgusting. However, all of those ads are disabled by a single option in the settings menu that doesn't reset itself on update.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me: Hey bank AI, how much money is in my account?
Bank AI: (long pause) It looks like there are five banks in your area.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

“I found a PayDay Loan office near you.”

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fuck, just tried to log into office.com to email a coworker that my stupid windows updates were going to make me late to a meeting and apparently I must use the copilot app instead of the web browser.

Fuck no, guess they will find out when I get there.

[–] pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whenever a chatbot is added to a product I use, the first and only thing I ask is how to disable it

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unless you want to disable Gemini which tells you to go to the settings to find a hallucinated feature. Thanks Google, but you're drunk!

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When they forced that shit this week the first and only thing I asked gemini for was directions on how to disable gemini and it did provide incorrect names for the settings to disable itself. Close enough to find the right ones, but just a great example that it doesn't even have the right answers for their own products.

AI being forced into everything is such a shitshow.

[–] RedPostItNote@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I saw a comment from a store owner having to defend himself against a potential customer who was convinced he sold something AI said he did. She would not believe him when he said he did not sell such thing. Kept quoting the AI to him lmao

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I don't understand why Gemini is such a disaster. DeepMind Gemma works better and that's a 27B model. It's like there are two separate companies inside Google fucking off and doing their own thing (which is probably true)

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't mind AI now that I've vastly lowered my expectations of what it can do, and am aware that "AI" isn't actually real. An LLM might be useful in some situations where you can reasonably expect it to give a decent answer and where your task isn't particularly important.

Problem is, most of it is forced on you and is not privacy friendly.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

could be useful if it wasn't for capitalism smh

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There are uses for AI in scientific and other things where using it for pattern matching to help find areas to focus on and then thoroughly doing the real work where accuracy is important are where the current AI really excels.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/05/24/ai-reveals-unsuspected-math-underlying-search-for-exoplanets/

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms trained on real astronomical observations now outperform astronomers in sifting through massive amounts of data to find new exploding stars, identify new types of galaxies and detect the mergers of massive stars, accelerating the rate of new discovery in the world’s oldest science.

It didn't just spit out answers they treated as correct, it did stuff they looked into and found ways to improve their methods. That is the real benefit of AI.

[–] smee@poeng.link 4 points 2 months ago

After dabbling with AI for years, I think it should be called out for what it is; machine learning. We're not in the ballpark of intelligence and barely close to mimicking (artificial) intelligence.

Though ML has a lot of things going for it, my most successful results are with voice synthesizing. Almost flawless and pretty amazing considered the yield.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I use as an advanced rubber duck for coding.

I know the answer is wrong but it gets my brain going into finding the right answer.

Like: "This is a ridiculous approach to make this. It would be much easier to just..."

Getting the wrong answer sometimes speed up the process, like some kind of dialectics.

[–] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You missed the other key detail: “and raised the price regardless of whether we use AI”.

I finally migrated my work email from Google workspace specifically because they jacked the subscription price and justified it due to Gemini, a tool I never used.

[–] Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

In the EU you can still have google one without gemini?

Anyways I switched to Infomaniak just to get rid of google tbh :))

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

[–] kronarbob@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

I'm so glad I use Linux. No AI bullshit!

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 2 months ago

Everytime there's an update on VS Code