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"I'm still not even sure what it's supposed to do to improve my Windows experience. All it did was deteriorate my Windows experience until I was driven to hardware sabotage." #genAI #copilot

coconutjelly:

I couldn't actually tell you if Copilot is useful, because it is so persistantly annoying that I detest it on principle as a program, before we even get into the genAI of it all.

My last laptop had a Copilot quick access button.

Immediately to the left of the left arrow key.

I live for keyboard shortcuts, so the fact that I could so easily and frequently and accidentally launch a program when I'm just trying to toggle screens or highlight a block of text is already infuriating. But add that this particular program is so resource-hungry that it can freeze a gaming laptop that runs BG3 at max graphics quality without blinking sent me into such incoherent rages that I wanted the entire program obliterated from the machine.

I did successfully remove the entire program. BUT THAT FUCKING KEY. Tapping it no longer opened a CPU-hungry program, but it still opened a window prompting me to install and update Copilot.

I finally pried up the key and surrounded the soft part of the switch with epoxy, so the key simply no longer moved if I accidentally touched it. I voided the warranty on a $1500 gaming laptop to make Copilot stop fucking bothering me.

Is it good AI? I have no idea.

I'm still not even sure what it's supposed to do to improve my Windows experience. All it did was deteriorate my Windows experience until I was driven to hardware sabotage.

@kevlin ouch!

@Ryanteck oof… that’s annoying. Polestars are really on my horizon for replacing this 6 year olg m*ga hat! i wasn’t convinced about a no rear windshield until the rear defogger of the M3 died! so I can’t see out of the rear windshield anymore anyway 🤣.

@codinghorror @jackeric @BenAveling @sotolf I really want to see how this started 🫣 now I have to go scrolling Jeffs timeline 🤣

@Ryanteck not saying that’s cheap… but that’s probably 60% off a new one…

@Ryanteck yes… M3s are going cheap in preowned market! Friend got a Y with 12K miles for 26K 🫣

@Ryanteck and there lies the catch! Pretty much why we are still driving a bloody red maga hat around!!!

@bloor cool. Thanks for all the inputs… still deciding if I should hack something up or go with a stock NAS hardware/software combo! Every vendor eventually trying to push AI is annoying! Windows has ruined my trust in custom OSes!

@bloor yeah. Are you running the stock OS or repaved it with something else?

@bloor thanks… why do NASes come in weird shapes! I just want to stack everything in my network cabinet… well now that I say network cabinet it’s obvious I am the weird one here 🫣

piofthings boosted:

i fear the cats/yarn stereotype is well earned, and also ruthie may have learned to open drawers

#CatsOfMastodon

Ruthie, a petite white and grey tabby shorthair cat, stands on a bed in front of her masterpiece: a tangle of sock yarn, still attached to a sock project with just the cuff complete

piofthings boosted:

Just one final thing - someone filmed some of my departure speech after Monkey Cage last night (I should make it clear no one knew I was going to do it) and it has been put up here - i cannot deny i was very emotional #science #comedy

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12/13/59644/robin_ince_forced_to_quit_radio_4_over_pro-trans_views

@bloor that Apple cluster news has spooked me… what chassis are you using…

@rail @neil yup! https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2017/06/07/ai-inside/

@drfootleg @theolodian woah!

piofthings boosted:

Jesus fucking christ.

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

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Idealism with good intent but without awareness of one's privilege that allows ignoring the lived reality of others (and looking down upon them for not being same as oneself) is merely fundamentalism with botox.

@hiway so true!

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Zowie cannot believe it's already #caturday again. She asked me to explain how time works, but I said I didn't understand it any better than she did.

a fluffy brown tabby cat looks up at you from the red rug she is sitting on. Her fur is very thick with lots of light and dark areas. She has white whiskers.

@bitwarden actually looks like I am missing some other passwords too. Now I am not sure who's updating what.

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