Technology

My penguins doesn't listen to what Microsoft wants.

Tip for any future product designers: Just because it looks cool in a movie, doesn't mean it'll translate well into reality as a useful product.

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

The vision of an AI PC, where it may or may not launch the app you tell it to, where one plus one may or may not be two, where deleting a file may delete the file you see, or a random different one.

Sounds great! /s

Imagine the cost of cloud AI on PCs. That only works too some degree for cloud data and being even more wasteful for the rest.

Every document you have, legal and medical, finance and personal, will all interface with the cloud. With numerous parties en route, visible and hidden, and a massive system you may or may not trust.

I don't want a fucking experience I just want a computer that works you stupid capitalist fuckhead.

Yes, I do honestly want a computer I can command with my voice. One that understands my needs and the context of the things I say.

However...

• That PC should not be tethered to the cloud. It must be capable of doing all that on its own.
• It should not fold me into some subscription model to some corporate entity.
• It should be open source and under my control, not opaque and subject to the whims of a corporate entity.
• No, it doesn't have to be FOSS. I would pay for it, once. It just needs to be OSS.

I don't even talk to my cat, I can mute for a day. why would I talk to a clanking metals.

I already have a computer I can talk to. I call it a useless sack of shit every day.

Why would you ever want to talk to your computer beyond the obvious "oh for fucksake, now what" and "shit, that shouldn't happen"?

And I would like MS to fuck off. I’ll even ask nicely.

I see no legitimate reason to let ANY AI have full access to my computer. It's just unnecessary.

If I need to ask an AI to proofread something, or I need help sorting through a programming error. I'll go to its website and ask it.

There is no reason (for me) to let it sit there chilling on my computer 24-7 doing good knows what.

ai is the 3d movies of this age.

Oh look it's Cortana 2

Switch to linux, use open source AI. It's better and private.

"Open the browser. No, not explorer, Edge! Open Edge, god damn it! Go to CNN.com. why did you open another browser window? No, I don't want to open another browser window. Open the news "Everything sucks and we are all going to die". Why did you open Bing? Stop asking for confirmation for everything...

If a tech executive says we're on the cusp of a technology breakthrough it means less than nothing and we should be more suspicious of it than already. These are people who don't know how to manage an organization based on the frequent layoffs (2009, 2014, 2023-2025 over 20k workers). People get fired because they fuck up, management layoff people because management fucked up.

Honestly, people are rightfully concerned about Microsoft locking down machines, and hackers, and rightfully so, but I think the real insanity is that I do really think LLMs is a tech bubble that I fully expect to burst, and attempting to redesign our lives around it will feel as silly as web3 in 2025.

And I would like Microsoft to go fuck itself. 🖕🥰🖕

“CORTANA, OPEN XHAMSTER.COM”

loudly said george in the public school’s computer lab.

They never learn. This is what happens when clueless MBAs make your strategic decisions.

I hate any voice-activated programs. Sometimes I'll ask my phone to call someone, and most of the time it does. But every now and then, it seems to completely forget my voice, the English language, how to access my contacts, how to spell anything, etc. I end up spending five minutes trying to force it to dial by my voice, screaming and cursing at it like a psychopath, when it would have taken me literally 3 seconds to just make the call manually.

If you try to do some sort of voice-to-text thing, it ALWAYS screws it up so bad, that you end up spending more time editing, than if you'd just typed it yourself in the first place.

Fuck voice-activated anything. It NEVER works reliably.

Microsoft wants you to install Linux

I wonder when they start removing being able to make administrator account on regular licences and make you beg the ai for anything that requires elevated rights.

I have not touched a Microsoft product or service for my personal life in 10 years. Last year I was fired, thus no longer being forced to use Teams.

Which means I haven't touched a Microsoft product, at all, in a year. Love it.

Yes, "control." That's what Microsoft wants you to have over "your" computer.

Well, Microsoft can eat a bag of dicks.

The way that all this "AI" processing has been trained, it almost always fails for anyone who doesn't fit the white middle-class aesthetic. Voice-to-text generative AI processing will screw up for people with accents, including non-native speakers; also someone who slurs their words, or talks in African-American Vernacular English. Also, it requires someone to know how to speak and listen in a language. Clicking on icons and inputting commands is the same regardless of what language you speak. This just reeks of out-of touch nepo-baby executives.

let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI

This should be the headline.

Then everyone can make up their minds about whether or not to stay with Microsoft or finally move on.

How can a company grow so out of touch with its customers?

I'll be honest, my biggest problem with something like this is that ai sophisticated enough to do anything useful cannot be run locally. That means every single time the clanker is asked to do something you are uploading significant amounts of personal information in an unencrypted form to some datacenter somewhere, for whoever to just do whatever they want with it.

As usual, MS doing some dumb shit that literally no one asked for.

Just doing everything they can to drive people away from Windows.