• TuxOP
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    Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.

    Keep going M$! You’re the best advertsiter to Linux! 👍 👍 👍

      • DacoTaco
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        86 months ago

        They dont own it, they just own seats at the foundation table and thats not even 50% of the seats :p

      • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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        66 months ago

        Microsoft does not own systemd

        And even if they did, and put copilot into it, distros could still choose to not use it

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            Actually, 100% of what I said is true. Let’s go through it together

            Microsoft does not own systemd

            True.

            The closest thing to an “owner” the project has would be Red Hat (not owned by MS), but it’s had over 2000 authors in its time.

            And even if they did, and put copilot into it, distros could still choose to not use it

            True.

            This in fact happens already. Lots of distros that use systemd only use some components of it. It’s GPL code, you can do that…

            Now let’s move on to Lennart Poettering.

            Yeah, he was one of the top people behind systemd, and he has now moved to a job within Microsoft. What’s your point? That doesn’t mean systemd is Microsoft property now. That’s not how it works lol. PulseAudio isn’t either.

    • Kokesh
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      46 months ago

      There should be AI Jesus in the bible!

  • Ghostalmedia
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    176 months ago

    Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.

    • @MurrayL@lemmy.world
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      Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.

      The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).

    • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      46 months ago

      Microsoft is in conflict with itself if web apps, modern native apps, or classic native apps are the future. That’s why even different Microsoft applications feel as or even more disconnected from each other than using KDE applications under Gnome.

  • @stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    No! Fucj you! I should have known the minute Microsoft started making you log in to use notepad windows was dead but this is unacceptable, note pad has exactly one purpose, to be as simple as possible. If I want Ai I will use any of a thousand other programs but keep my notepad sacred!

  • BrightCandle
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    36 months ago

    Microsoft remains convinced we want clippy everywhere regardless of how many times we have rejected these solutions!

  • Arghblarg
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    When I have to boot into Win11, I run this right after as a shortcut from my desktop (right-click and Run As Administrator):

    net stop usosvc
    sc config usosvc start=disabled
    net stop wuauserv
    sc config wuauserv start=disabled
    

    … be sure to set your Wifi points as metered to block Update as well.

    Note that anytime you go into certain Settings / Control Panel pages, Win11 silently re-enables the above services! Crazy. (Someone should really write a patch for that…)

    Sad anyone has to put up with this BS but, we do what we gotta do.

    • @infeeeee@lemm.ee
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      Those are update services. Upgrading your os is a basic security measure nowadays. You recommend to sacrifice some security because of a minor inconvenience. It’s alright if you can live with that tradeoff, but please don’t recommend it on the internet. Windows assumes a user is not knowledgeable enough about this topic, so it’s enabled for them.

      Other hint, because it seems you are also not very knowledgeable about this topic, usually you can disable these things with group policies if you really want to, so you don’t have to run it after each boot. Or you can also set up a scheduled task or create a service with nssm.

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        Yes, I know they are update services; fair point you make, that those not technically-minded should probably leave them on.

        However I personally do not appreciate OS updates, no matter their purported criticality, being installed without my express permission. I am aware of Group policies, but Win11 Home does not officially support them (though one can install gpedit.msc manually; however according to sources I researched, not all policies set will even be honoured by the Home edition).

        I did consider scheduling it, just hadn’t gotten around to trying it out.

        If could, I would wipe Win11 and use native Linux but this laptop is too new and support is poor on it; it’s gone as soon as practical :)