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Microsoft Copilot installed itself on every computer I've checked so far. Mine, my son's, which isn't surprising as Windows Updates is still enabled. My work laptop, which I was a little surprised about as it seems to have violated the group policy AFAIK.

Machines in which we have blackholed the Windows Update IP addresses have Copilot installed.

Microsoft 365 Copilot(this is not the same as Microsoft Copilot) will not register itself in "Programs and Features" so you can't even timestamp when brazen display of fuckery started.

I'm not sure which is worse: AI or the faggotry corporations do in its name.
 
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Lambourne

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Microsoft has become the malware. There's some microsoft account screen that keeps popping whenever I log in on a new PC at work that takes over your entire screen and it won't even let you tab out of it. Have to go into task manager and kill it.

I played dumb and reported it as a hack attempt to the office IT goons, maybe if I annoy them enough something will be done about it.
 
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Haus

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Lambourne said:
Microsoft has become the malware. There's some microsoft account screen that keeps popping whenever I log in on a new PC at work that takes over your entire screen and it won't even let you tab out of it. Have to go into task manager and kill it.

I played dumb and reported it as a hack attempt to the office IT goons, maybe if I annoy them enough something will be done about it.
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Yeah, I have long resisted the "maybe I should find a linux distro I like and just gracefully walk away from MS" for literally decades now... But I sense the time is soon approaching.

I like the idea of an AI assistant, I even like the idea of having agentic AI which I can task with handling things for me, but I want these things to be self contained, and their internet access be something I can hyperinvasively monitor and control (which is possible).
 
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Lambourne

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Yeah, I have long resisted the "maybe I should find a linux distro I like and just gracefully walk away from MS" for literally decades now... But I sense the time is soon approaching.

I like the idea of an AI assistant, I even like the idea of having agentic AI which I can task with handling things for me, but I want these things to be self contained, and their internet access be something I can hyperinvasively monitor and control (which is possible).
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Maybe if the SteamOS thing takes off it'll finally make linux gaming viable. It's the only thing keeping me on windows, all the other stuff like email / video streaming I can do in a browser.

Come tot think of it, I wonder how far we are from "hey AI bot, please take this source code and port this game to linux" and it just working. Can't be too many years off now.
 
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Back neighbors: $1.3 million house, but their yard looks like its from a trailer park. WTF is wrong with people?
 
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Haus

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Lambourne said:
Maybe if the SteamOS thing takes off it'll finally make linux gaming viable. It's the only thing keeping me on windows, all the other stuff like email / video streaming I can do in a browser.

Come tot think of it, I wonder how far we are from "hey AI bot, please take this source code and port this game to linux" and it just working. Can't be too many years off now.
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I think before "recompile this to be Linux compatible" we're going to simply have to live with "Do a micro-virtualization kernel wrap around this executable so it THINKS it's on a windows system".
 
Deathwing

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Isn't that what proton is?

I'd be impressed if AI can handle porting old software. Maybe a focused AI that's been trained on the languges, OSes, and build toolchains.
 
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Yesterday at 6:48 AM, one my friends in my billiards group was killed on his motorcycle by a van that took the right of way when they shouldn't have. He was only 24 years old. Stay safe on the roads my friends.
 
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Mr_Bungle said:
Yesterday at 6:48 AM, one my friends in my billiards group was killed on his motorcycle by a van that took the right of way when they shouldn't have. He was only 24 years old. Stay safe on the roads my friends.
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Damn bro that's more of a rustle but 'on his motorcycle' means when not if. Neg me all you want but when my wife got side swiped by a UBER driver that 'turned when the app told him to' despite there being a car in the way, the AC didn't even turn off and the seat belts didn't even tighten.
 
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Damn bro that's more of a rustle but 'on his motorcycle' means when not if. Neg me all you want but when my wife got side swiped by a UBER driver that 'turned when the app told him to' despite there being a car in the way, the AC didn't even turn off and the seat belts didn't even tighten.
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Motorcycles have that inherent risk no matter how careful you are. Its just a shame, he was so damn young and cut down unceremoniously. I still understand and agree with your point, no negs from me.

This is the third friend who has passed away on a bike over the last 10 years or so.

The first friend who was a decade older than me at the time was stopped at a red light and the car behind him was texting and driving, direct hit... no brakes. Killed him instantly, he had just bought a house and had a baby on the way too.

The second was someone I knew all the way back from preschool. Killed when an oncoming car drifted into the opposing lane around a bend, they were both speeding leaving little time to react.

Just be careful FoH, check in on your buddies and take a moment to step back and actively appreciate those close to you. Life seems slow but it's all too fast at times.
 
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it has been almost 4 years since my best friend was killed on his bike. just went to his oldest daughters wedding.
go through stages of being mad for someone to take such risks, but then another guy i knew, at 34, was sitting at the kitchen table, fell over from a massive aneurysm.
 
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Mr_Bungle said:
Motorcycles have that inherent risk no matter how careful you are. Its just a shame, he was so damn young and cut down unceremoniously. I still understand and agree with your point, no negs from me.

This is the third friend who has passed away on a bike over the last 10 years or so.

The first friend who was a decade older than me at the time was stopped at a red light and the car behind him was texting and driving, direct hit... no brakes. Killed him instantly, he had just bought a house and had a baby on the way too.

The second was someone I knew all the way back from preschool. Killed when an oncoming car drifted into the opposing lane around a bend, they were both speeding leaving little time to react.

Just be careful FoH, check in on your buddies and take a moment to step back and actively appreciate those close to you. Life seems slow but it's all too fast at times.
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Previous boss got into sport bikes (mostly to acquire a nice backpack as he says)

His first few funerals of club bros shook him- but it is just a reality of when, not even an ounce of if. They know it, they accept it and still ride to die.
 
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Siliconemelons said:
Previous boss got into sport bikes (mostly to acquire a nice backpack as he says)

His first few funerals of club bros shook him- but it is just a reality of when, not even an ounce of if. They know it, they accept it and still ride to die.
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I rode a sport bike for about a year when I was like 22, got into the riding groups and whatnot - 2 people died in that year. The second one was a good riding buddy of mine, not while I was there but heard about it. Parked my bike and sold it after that and got into sports cars - all my car friends are old along with me now.

You're just putting your life in everyone else's hands on a bike, it's insanity.
 
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I rode a sport bike for about a year when I was like 22, got into the riding groups and whatnot - 2 people died in that year. The second one was a good riding buddy of mine, not while I was there but heard about it. Parked my bike and sold it after that and got into sports cars - all my car friends are old along with me now.

You're just putting your life in everyone else's hands on a bike, it's insanity.
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As a kid in the 90s I would ride my 10 speed bike everywhere. I think I biked 30 miles round trip to the mall for a Sega CD game once.

You just can't do that now. So many people on their phones just oblivious. In my (small) facebook widow group alone 3 of them lost their spouse on a motorcycle. Newp.
 
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