What a fucking dumb ass. If true that’s the kind of thing you keep secret. Admitting 30% of your code base was created by AI is like bragging you switched all your steel parts for plastic. Literally nobody is impressed by you doing something cheaper and shittier. How stupid can you possibly be. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised MS leaders have been making absolutely braindead decisions for the last 15 years
Windows 11 is literately the best windows ever.
It got me to install Linux, ditch Google as my phone provider and take an even harder stance against all these fucked up billionaire monsters.
Thanks windows 11!
will preload file exlorer to fix bad performance
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Btw, why is there no round, big-hand facepalm? That one above is hard to distinguish.
Yea. We really need to get the keepers of unicode to add a Picard face palm.
I’ve got these 3. (Google Pixel phone). But yeah .nothing quite hits the spot.
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this one was posted here on lemmy (i think) recently
this is just 5% of microslop
… at the height of their arrogance, the climax of their hubris, they decided that their own spaghetti was so substantial, so impressive, of such bulk, they confused it for divinity; they believed that it could organize and improve itself.
Such was the nature and extent of MicroSlop’s trangressions against the very nature of noodles, against those ancient ones who wove together the very fibers of reality itself.
uninstall workaround
I guess it technically is a workaround for problems with Windows to just uninstall it and use something else.
The past month that I’ve spent using Fedora with a 5070ti and playing games like Arc Raiders and KCD 2 has genuinely been the most stable my computer has been in about a decade.
Also a lot of my smaller issues like USB and Conrroller disconnects disappeared completely.
I thought I was going crazy.
Windows is awful garbage.
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So there’s this guy named theseus, right?
Might wanna re-read that comment mate
If only there was an operating system not controlled by evil megacorporations.
well ibm and canonical are certainly trying
Earlier I saw something about Microsoft wanting to earn back lost trust and I actually literally laughed out loud about it.
Super easy to do though.
Extend support for Windows 10 for the foreseeable future.
Wall up Copilot. Make AI integrations optional with granular control for each app and data source.
Double the technical staff at Microsoft and create a large team with the specific job of paring down system resource usage. It’s ridiculous that an operating system uses more resources at idle than Skyrim does.
Don’t even talk about 12 yet. Even better, annouce that Windows 12 is scrapped in order to provide more resources to fix 11 and support 10.
And… A little extra fun. Sell half of the RAM Microsoft has stockpiled while the AI bubble is still intact.
" We hear you. We see you. Best we can do is Three-Mile Island but stocked with all the world’s RAM so you can generate slop code and have lonely chats with a machine that tells you eating glue is a great idea."
–Microsoft
Actually, glue used to be made from sinew and bones or simply with flour and water, and used to be perfectly eatable. Modern glue, though – well, Ok. You’ve got a point there.
“You’re absolutely right! First, make sure the glue is all natural. You can also enjoy some very small rocks as well, to supplement essential minerals! Yum!”
Lol
Always fun when crafting time can be snacking time. XD
Maybe they had CoPilot code them a time machine to go back to 2004.
I’d love them to all get in there first and let me know how it works out.
Absolutely wild that there was a time when Microsoft had three generally well regarded consumer products in Windows 7, the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 all at the same time, compared to where they are now in all of those product spaces.
Windows was Windows, but 7 was largely consistent and didn’t need to be fought with like its successors.
The 360 was the go-to console for developers and gamers, despite the RROD issues, which I’d even give them credit for for handling (eventually) after lots of us got 2 free games and a free controller from them following the debacle.
Windows Phone 7 had a superb interface, great hardware and genuinely stood out.
Now they have nothing and are hated more than ever.
It really was their golden era. Being on MacOS at the time was for artists, wannabe artists, and hippies because Apple was still doing brightly colored iMacs and the iPod hadn’t gotten over the adoption hump yet.
Win7 let you do anything, and worked so well. MS Office was snappy and fast on a processor we probably use in disposable vapes now. Hotmail was THE free email for years. IE was only marginally less good than Opera or Navigator.
I think I spent exactly 5 minutes on Ubuntu or some Linux variant at the time and it was rough.
Times change. They lived long enough to become the thing they tried not to be.
I had a similar Ubuntu experience in the Windows XP years too (2006ish?).
Everything had a barrier. WiFi drivers always seemed to be a problem, but if I wanted to do anything non-standard it was an exercise in frustration. At one point I owned a Sony digital camcorder that I wanted to get video files from. Eventually, following hours of forum research I learned I had to recompile the kernel to do it, which did actually get me there. To this day I have no idea what a kernel is, and I have no desire to. I remember thinking how wildly complex it was to do something that worked so easily in Windows.
Entirely off topic and potentially triggering anecdote when accounting for Linux’s general prevalence here, but that wasn’t what turned me back to Windows from Ubuntu 20 years ago, it was actually something that most would could consider a positive for Linux. It was the fact that it was so customisable. I had weird multiple desktops that were mapped to a rotatable cube, I spent ages configuring translucent live performance stats on the desktop, hours updating icons and themes etc, whatever I saw on forums that looked cool and wanted to replicate.
Then one day I acknowledged I just wasn’t ever actually using the computer. I literally spent more time modifying and customising stuff than I did actually doing anything. I realised I was never satisfied with the current config and just kept tweaking.
It’s probably not surprising to hear I’ve since been fully into the almost entirely un-customisable Apple ecosystem for a while now. While it’s taken my money, it’s given me back my time!
I dare say it, too. I really liked that era. Win7 was cool, the gaming division’s aesthetic and marketing were cool. Original X-Box? Man that was a JAM.
I mean, part of it was just being young and naive too I guess, because I have plenty of memes from the '95 era about how evil Gates was/is. (Internet Explorer was a hot button topic back then!)
But also I think the landscape was competing for favor of the users (however underhandedly as usual) rather than how the landscape is now: Where end users are more of an afterthought and now it’s all just about farming users while billionaires pass money back and forth.
EDIT: I was already maining Linux by then, but Microsoft definitely hit my shitlist when they decided to just paperweight WMR devices entirely. Screw them.
“Prompting mass uninstall workaround” sounds like an awfully complicated way of saying “a lot of people switched to Linux”
So, business as usual.
Patch Tuesday didn’t become a thing for no reason.
If it was only Windows… All MS products have gone to Win 95 era reliability in the last few months.
Ya, I’m sure the AI code isn’t helping, but is it materially any different? I spent way too many long nights trying to unfuck Windows servers after updates failed to install correctly. And that was well before the AI Slop Boom. Even more fun is when the update reported installing correctly but the Nessus scans came back showing the old version of DLLs still in the System32 folder. There is a reason no one installs Windows patches on day 1. At minimum, you give them a week to let the foolhardy and fanboys get their disks slapped by Microsoft, again.
Going back to my days supporting Window 2000/2003, I remember working in environments where management had decreed that we would not install updates ever, because of too much downtime due to bad updates. Even today, updating in OT environments can be very difficult due to shitty software running on really old versions of Windows. At least that stuff can usually be kicked off the network and left to rot in isolation.
There is a reason no one installs Windows patches on day 1.
I love how they earned this reputation, so rather than repair that reputation, the next move was to force update their users whether they like it or not.
I remember working in environments where management had decreed that we would not install updates ever. . .
That’s…definitely a decision that puts a lot of trust in Microsoft’s security. Lol
Windows Update: Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.
I remember working in environments where management had decreed that we would not install updates ever. . .That’s…definitely a decision that puts a lot of trust in Microsoft’s security. Lol
It was a very different time. Security was still something that happened mostly at the network perimeter, and even then not much. Routers without firewalls were very common and things like SQLSlammer were much more possible.
Still running Win11 on my gaming rig. The very first time an update breaks something again it’s gone.
