LMAO The copium that these Microsoft chuds are huffing must be quality stuff for them to ignore criticism from their user base. Their naked desperation for users to embrace agentic Browsers and OS is cringe as fuck. I can only hope that this hurts them badly, when users continue to find ways to circumvent the AI madness that Microsoft has succumbed to. Glad that I switched to Linux and can watch the storm rage on the Broken Window side without worry.
it’s yet another way to collect data for monetization (selling to governments and advertisers).
it’s a symptom of market culture : it exists not to serve the user, but to be a product to sell to the user. In that light, it behaves and evolves exactly as any other thingy which tries to reinvent itself year after year, to keep customers interested, regardless of its intrinsic value as an operating system.
but that’s just me, I can’t claim to understand the inner workings of Microsoft
It collects data that is sufficient for a personal profile. MS is already arbitrarily blocking accounts in Europe. Now think of Trump. The proliferation of flock cameras and cameras in general.
Post something wrong once and you’re gone.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_TlmtdjrOxc
Consider it an alternative chat control that evaluates itself. Automated for maximum efficiency.
In addition, it is also one of the greatest strengths and economic factors of the US… industrial espionage.
AI is obviously the next big thing. If your product isn’t full AI right now, you’ll miss out.
So basically I’m convinced the reason everyone’s chasing AI is all just greed and fomo. People at the top of the ladder seem generally more detached from reality.
They are spying on you. Obviously. This is a better excuse to do more of that more openly.
This creates a corporate controlled abstraction layer between you and everything you do with any networked device, puts more decision control and discernment in the corporation’s hands. When Amazon tried to move to voice based ordering, it was on this same logic; that you would say ‘alexa, order toilet paper’ and they would choose the toilet paper to order based on what’s best for them-sponsored, most profitable, etc, like you can only buy things from a selfish hyper sociopathic genie. LLM based ux doesn’t just put the corporation between you and products, but between you and all information, between you and truth.
Decisionmakers at MS are divorced from reality. The cognitive dissonance is incredible. They make shit up as they go along and the rest eat it all up and re-spew some new godawful incarnation of the terrible ideas.
None of the decisions are based in reality or quality market research (what users want). Their market research boils down to AI is god and we need to make it even more ungodly.
Which isn’t that surprising. When you have a single company dominating a market niche (say, desktop OS-es on PCs), the focus isn’t increasing, retaining or in any way satisfying customers. It’s making shit up as you go along, trying to get your department’s lines a bit higher than the other one so you as a high-to-mid level manager get that sweet, sweet bonus.
It’s not limited to MS and OS-es. The same thing applies to Google and the search and browser markets, as well as Nintendo and their ecosystem, or HP and printers.
You don’t even need a monopoly for this shit to happen. You just need to be “too big to fail”. Luckily, such unsustainable behavior won’t be “too big to fail” forever, but it’s impressive just for how long a company with such rotten echochamber decisionmaking behaviour can keep chugging along just fine, all the while hurting the customers and the economy in general through knock-on - or shall I say trickle down - effects.
If your program/OS has to constantly phone home to operate, you can’t easily distinguish the traffic related to it’s operation from the traffic snooping all your data. Extra points if you willingly give the AI access or information.
One step ahead - installed Syncthing on an always-on Windows box located at my office, pointed it at some needed Google Drive folders, and synced to Debian. The Windows box has other syncing tasks anyway so it’s not costing anything in power. The Debian laptop is becoming my main workhorse.
rclone is too much of a PITA to configure.
insync is way too expensive, especially with multiple Google Drive accounts.
Gnome’s sync thinggie does weird stuff with filenames in LibreOffice etc, is basically unusable.
I need Google Drive due to my existing business setups.
LMAO The copium that these Microsoft chuds are huffing must be quality stuff for them to ignore criticism from their user base. Their naked desperation for users to embrace agentic Browsers and OS is cringe as fuck. I can only hope that this hurts them badly, when users continue to find ways to circumvent the AI madness that Microsoft has succumbed to. Glad that I switched to Linux and can watch the storm rage on the Broken Window side without worry.
It always makes me wonder: what exactly do they have to gain pushing AI to everything? Like, what’s the angle here?
I personally see two major factors :
but that’s just me, I can’t claim to understand the inner workings of Microsoft
Makes sense, especially with all the tech bros racing to enshittify the world.
It collects data that is sufficient for a personal profile. MS is already arbitrarily blocking accounts in Europe. Now think of Trump. The proliferation of flock cameras and cameras in general. Post something wrong once and you’re gone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_TlmtdjrOxc
Consider it an alternative chat control that evaluates itself. Automated for maximum efficiency.
In addition, it is also one of the greatest strengths and economic factors of the US… industrial espionage.
AI is obviously the next big thing. If your product isn’t full AI right now, you’ll miss out.
So basically I’m convinced the reason everyone’s chasing AI is all just greed and fomo. People at the top of the ladder seem generally more detached from reality.
Three big things, from most to least obvious:
Asskissing.
Decisionmakers at MS are divorced from reality. The cognitive dissonance is incredible. They make shit up as they go along and the rest eat it all up and re-spew some new godawful incarnation of the terrible ideas.
None of the decisions are based in reality or quality market research (what users want). Their market research boils down to AI is god and we need to make it even more ungodly.
Which isn’t that surprising. When you have a single company dominating a market niche (say, desktop OS-es on PCs), the focus isn’t increasing, retaining or in any way satisfying customers. It’s making shit up as you go along, trying to get your department’s lines a bit higher than the other one so you as a high-to-mid level manager get that sweet, sweet bonus.
It’s not limited to MS and OS-es. The same thing applies to Google and the search and browser markets, as well as Nintendo and their ecosystem, or HP and printers.
You don’t even need a monopoly for this shit to happen. You just need to be “too big to fail”. Luckily, such unsustainable behavior won’t be “too big to fail” forever, but it’s impressive just for how long a company with such rotten echochamber decisionmaking behaviour can keep chugging along just fine, all the while hurting the customers and the economy in general through knock-on - or shall I say trickle down - effects.
If your program/OS has to constantly phone home to operate, you can’t easily distinguish the traffic related to it’s operation from the traffic snooping all your data. Extra points if you willingly give the AI access or information.
One step ahead - installed Syncthing on an always-on Windows box located at my office, pointed it at some needed Google Drive folders, and synced to Debian. The Windows box has other syncing tasks anyway so it’s not costing anything in power. The Debian laptop is becoming my main workhorse.
rclone is too much of a PITA to configure. insync is way too expensive, especially with multiple Google Drive accounts. Gnome’s sync thinggie does weird stuff with filenames in LibreOffice etc, is basically unusable.
I need Google Drive due to my existing business setups.