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I’m convinced Windows 11 has been capturing data for later Recall processing from day one, and that’s why the performance is so bad on the same hardware compared to Windows 10.
People associated that word too much with Schwarzenegger’s grunts. (Total Recall)
I might have to switch to Linux soon. But I have no idea how to yet. This is forcing me to. Fucking hell. I pay for a product and they still insist on invading my privacy. Fuck American companies that do this shit man.
Find a well-supported distro (Debian, or Debian-based like Ubuntu and Linux Mint, is ideal - highly stable). Then go through your applications and look for Linux equivalents, or see if the companies behind the apps offer a version for Linux.
I’ve been running Linux Mint Debian Edition (not Ubuntu-based) on my laptop for almost a year now. It’s now my go-to machine for pretty much anything I do outside of my gaming PC (which is also getting Linux Mint soon).
Thank you for the recommendation. I will read into it a bit.
Take the Linux Mint pill 💊
Mildly approaching an actually useful AI in the stupidest way possible.
I don’t need an AI shortcut in Excel that is just a chatbot. If it could actually perform complex redundant tasks, then it would be useful.
“Copilot, please create 3 charts of the most important data and create a Powerpoint with animations to present it.”
Until it can do things like that, it’s useless to me.
Honest question: what do people actually use this for?
It’s called recall or something. If you are trying to find something you saw before but can’t remember, it remembers for you.
Copilot, what was the video on Pornhub I saw a few months ago, with the brunette who looks like Jessica from accounting? And she had like 4 guys in her at once and was eating spaghetti?
What’s the opposite of “concentrating on remembering something strengthens neuron pathways”?
I’ve found it useful in providing scripts for me that I can use as templates. You still have to fix a lot of stuff as it makes crazy assumptions and hallucinates a lot but it’s useful.
Honest question: what do people actually use this for?
My wife is on a course to learn (just enough) excel fancy tricks to do her job better. We all hate it. There was a formula misbehaving, and I described the error to a ChatGPT window. The window returned some recommendations to look at, and one of them was correct.
I use it to write ansible for me, since I never want to get good at it and I never want to do it beyond paid work. I would take up a serious pot habit if I could be assured of destroying only the brain cells that record my memory of doing ansible. I write my config management with tools that are decades more advanced, and those I want to learn and retain.
I’m not impressed with Copilot. Today I tried to have an Excell file translated and it just couldn’t do it. Just a single column, simple text and nope, couldn’ do it. Paste the text of a cell right into Copilot worked fine, but I wasn’t going to do it manualy with the 13000 rows. Tried the same with ChatGPT and that didn’t work either.
AIs are only useful to do “approximate” dumb tasks, they can’t do anything precise so you are better looking at how to do this with pandas to automate things.
That’s the funny thing. It did give me the Python code to do it. In the end I just used Google translate and copy-paste to do it. But I can’t set up a python enviroment on my work computer (without admin access).
I can’t set up a python enviroment on my work computer
try programming on your browser instead
disclaimer: linked website is not mine, and since it runs on someone else’s computer I wouldn’t use it for anything serious
Fyi, the Python installer does allow you to install Python without admin access iirc.
IN THEORY, my day job will work to prevent an external organization from seeing and saving the Privacy-Possum data on our screens and preserve the PII of people who trust us.
In reality they’ll keep justifying the continued abuse by Shitty OS Daddy.
Was this update in this week’s patch Tuesday?
