TBH I have a mixed feeling about this.

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    8 months ago

    What the heck IS Copilot?

    I hate articles that tell you, "Blorp is amazing! Blorp is coming out in 3 days! Everybody should have Blorp! Don’t miss out on Blorp!’

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    8 months ago

    When did tech go from adding nice useful features to shoving shit up everyone’s ass without consent.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t know, when did it? I installed this update on Windows 11 and there’s a simple toggle in the settings to turn off the Copilot button on the taskbar. And even when it’s not disabled, I just don’t use it when I don’t want it to do something. This thread - like many others on this topic - is full of weird histrionics over this.

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        8 months ago

        Very naive understanding of what it actually does.

        If you are fine with being datamined by software and device you paid for, more power to you champ!

        I am sure you got nothing to hide and you don’t do any crime haha

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          It’s basically a wrapper for Bing Chat. If anything I’m disappointed by how little it does. Possibly because I don’t have Microsoft Office, it has some integrations with that when doing searches through your data (this is a feature of Office rather than of Copilot, though). Do you have any sources indicating it’s doing more than that?

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    8 months ago

    Microsoft is doing a really good job convincing me to switch to Linux. Hopefully soon that will be a realistic possibility for me. Fuck Microsoft.

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    I am unimpressed with copilot on Windows 11. Privacy aside, It seems like a web wrapper for Bing ai, which is a performant chat bot, but isn’t anything special when you compare it to openai’s data analytics ai.

    It wasn’t able to update PC settings or files, for example. Though, I only had 15 min with it.

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      I did this the moment they dropped copilot on my taskbar without any prompting. It was my gaming machine so it took a little getting used to, but it’s been solid ever since.

      I did not ask for an AI chatbot in my os. I don’t want an AI chatbot in my os.

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        You could go to Settings -> Personalization -> Taskbar and turn the Copilot button off. Or you could install a whole new OS to accomplish that, I guess. Whichever is simpler.