I can't recall ever liking almost every single comment in a post before, what a fucking rush.
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Oh, it's very impressive, but I still want to drop it into a trash compactor though.
I don’t want to talk fluently with a computer, I want it to do things deterministically in a way I as a human being cannot. If I want a discussion, I have it with a human being.
Call me old fashoined, but i like my computers to do exactly what I yell them to do.
Best typo ITT by far.
Exactly, if I wanted a discussion with a computer, I wouldn't have gotten married.
Any mind which can be blown by the lack of acceptance of pseudo-deterministic slop should be constrained to stewarding products used by only true believers.
Slopvangelical LLM thumpers are welcome chew on their shit all they like, just stop forcing the rest of us to partake.
What’s mind blowing is this guy doesn’t get dick and windows sucks
Business Idiots. Ed Zitron wrote a whole thing about how many business leaders are out of touch with users and their own products. They live in their own little pocket dimension with each other, and only really care about shareholders.
You know what would impress me? That I would be able to start using my computer when I boot it in the morning.
As it stands I have to wait some 5 to 10 minutes before the mouse pointer decides to cooperate with me. And god forbid I attempt to start a Teams meeting, either the camera, mic or screen share will not work at all.
What the hell is this dumbass operating system doing that is more important than responding to the damn user?
Same machine, booting Linux, lets me start working right away. No stuttering, no freezes. Go figure.
Install an outbound firewall and be horrified by how much Windows phones home and how much telemetry it continuously exfiltrates without your consent.
It's sad that all of those things were solved problems 20 years ago.
Like, Skype was usable on pretty much any computer with a webcam in 2006. Computers booted in a couple minutes with their spinning disk drives.
The tech is faster, more reliable, higher resolution, etc, but the software is fucking ass.
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a fucking newspaper guy, why they write about AI so much, you think ?

Never seen someone with a mind so easily blown.
At the idea of customer choice and feedback, no less; like those things are somehow BAD.
Microsoft is truly the king of putting out a product that no one wanted or asked for, then wondering why no one wants it. I'm sure they will soon begin the second phase of any Microsoft product: spending a small country's GDP marketing it to try to get people to use it, despite it being prominently displayed on approximately 5 billion operating systems already.
A tried and true strategy to piss through more money than god to justify spending more money than god building the thing that no one wants. Looking at you, IE and edge.
You know what I want MS to do? Remove all the extra crap and just be a simple OS. The desktop should use 500MB or so of memory, boot should be a few seconds, and launching programs should be a few seconds. Don't do any weird caching nonsense, I don't need tens of GBs of OS nonsense, just give me a simple OS.
I have that w/ Linux. The only value Windows provides is app compatibility. Stop trying to be anything more than that.
Man, can you imagine how good a bare bones version of win 10 would be? Drop all the useless software and telemetry services, only run the 3 or 4 background services that people use, and use flat window decorations like win 8. Essentially a modernized windows XP. Would be rad.
I've AIed your computer, without your consent... where are my applause?!
I couldnt give a flying fuck what this clown thinks. My brand new Beelink EQ14 came with Win11. Its now running Ubuntu server
"I have a radical business strategy: Fuck our customers, and fuck what they want. It's going to be great. They'll love it. Or else."
20 years ago I would have been excited: when Microsoft made Clippy to try and help people. Now we know you created this to harvest data.
I'm mind-blown that people feel no shame when data harvesting from computer illiterates, or programmers who write anti-features (like forced online accounts for a local OS).
Well my guy have you actually used and I mean really sat down and used your burning pile of slop for an excuse of an OS? I bet you haven‘t because you don‘t have to. Your assistants have to deal with that and they get paid to not complain about it. Meanwhile you get paid to waste oxygen and have lost touch with reality to the point you‘re no longer able to contribute to society in your current position. How sad.
I think part of the problem is they all use Win 11 Enterprise, which actually isn’t that crappy because all of the bloat can be configured and disabled and most likely their IT department has done that.
They should be forced to use Win 11 Home for a while to see how everyone else is viewing things.
is thats what businesses use? our work uses computer with windows 11, seems very unweildy, and sitll has bloat(from news)
As has been said elsewhere about everything Microsoft is pulling:
If your LLM was worth using you wouldn't need to force anyone to use it.
Lay off the coke man, talking to a computer isnt impressive when the average persons hydro bill goes up each month to support your bullshit