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It's kind of amazing how much they're willing to tear down in hopes of this "" incredible "" AI vision
Only 10% of Microsoft revenue is Windows, they are trying to squeeze money out of the personal data of users.
they got the idea from google, and samsung is doing the same.
At this point I can only assume that Microsoft is actively trying to punish me for using their products.
Linux Mint Cinnamon is incredible, free to try/move to, and reversible.
Time to regulate the shit out of them. They don't know what consent is, they flaunt the abuse of privacy laws.
The LLMs demand more data, so MS is providing it by scraping our personal hard drives. Well, not mine, but still most peoples.
I still have Win10 running on an air-gapped laptop because there are no Linux drivers for my cheap auto-feed scanner, which I'm using to scan a raft of old photos. Once that project is done, I'll put Linux Mint on it, and use it for something fun.
Gimp, Inkscape, Blender, Steam, LibreOffice, Obsidian, and Jellyfin do everything I want from a desktop.
How long until we can trick the Ai into deleting the System32 folder?
That should be a fun defcon.
cackles maniacally in Linux
lol
they just keep piling on justifications for switching away
So it's going to be opt-in not opt-out. Just don't turn it on. Simple as. 🤷♂️
How to disable Copilot
For Pro, Enterprise, or Education users
Press Windows + R, type gpedit.msc, and press Enter. Navigate to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Copilot. Double-click "Turn off Windows Copilot," select "Enabled," then click Apply and OK. Restart your computer for the changes to take effect.
For Home users
Home users without access to the Group Policy Editor can disable Copilot via the Windows Registry. Press Windows + R, type regedit, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows. Create a new key named WindowsCopilot if it does not exist. Inside this key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named TurnOffWindowsCopilot and set its value to 1. Restart your computer to apply the change.
Important to note here that if you are running Windows or a dual-boot, the new version of O&O ShutUp has a utility that allows you to delete CoPilot.
I never bought Windows 11 for AI shit. It wasn't even what came with 11 originally. Hey Microsoft, why not make a version of Windows 11 with all the AI stuff fully turned on and call it Windows 11-AI. You sell it separately and up charge as much as you want. Just reset 11 to no AI and have it be the bare bones 11.
Edit: 2 things too. Violating user privacy could carry a risk as far as attorney-client privledge goes because attorneys work on 11 from home. So just ransaking all data could cause that right to be waved. Subpoena much?
Also, the AI-Windows could be upsold as a luxury, which means you can charge more for AI-11.
Because they make so much more $ from selling your data. Microsoft would rather push these AI programs in an update, and bank on their users not noticing. The majority of users operate in a walled garden, they aren't editing registry files or manually running commands, so they are less likely to notice the changes. It's the power users that notice this shit, and sound the alarm.
They can't do that. They have all of their money riding on AI. They can't possess any data that might show the all-mightly Shareholders that they bet wrong.
Windows is the security risk
How long before you can’t turn this off or uninstall it, just like Edge, or Bitlocker, or TPM, or mandatory Microsoft accounts?
What's the difference between big software companies and drug cartels? No, this is not the opening line of a joke.
So Microsoft is the pig whose committed to the AI chatbot ham. There's no going back now for windows scanning my personal files for their own use. It's that or nothing from Microsoft from now on.
I've been watching Windows get worse and worse from the sidelines for years now, but it seems they are really ramping it up now. It has gotten so bad, I genuinely feel bad for Windows users now. But it's also pretty damn funny.
Cool, you know who doesn’t have this issue? People who uninstalled the spyware called Windows from their device.
I cannot express how much peace of mind switching to Linux has granted me.
"Windows now has this horrible feature! Windows now breaks user experience! Windows has ads shoved everywhere!"
And here I am, comfortably sipping my cup of tea and watching the world burn from afar.
I'm kinda just transitioning out now. I have some projects to wrap up on Windows 10 LTS that use programs that wouldn't run well through WINE. When those are done, I'll make use of Linux alternatives to that project software, and pretty much just have my Windows boot available for dire emergencies.
As it stands, most of my gaming is transitioned over, and my Windows partition just has enough space for a few games after project work.
