I like Windows. I like AI. But this like is based on me having ownership over them. Microsoft is what has convinced me to move to Linux when an official SteamOS Desktop is released.
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Or you can just as easily install a Linux distro, because that's all steamOS is but slightly game-ified. If anything you'd probably have a better desktop experience with a distro built with that in mind.
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Valve could easily enter the OS space. They have hardware and a dedicated user-base. They've built some good will with the Linux community. They're already doing the work to make other stuff work well with Linux. I'm not always a fan of walking too close to the corporate edge with paid software and DRM and proprietary blobs and whatever, but at this point we have to figure out how to get everyone out of Windows, even 100 year old Grandma Geraldine who plays bejeweled on Facebook all day. I probably won't run SteamOS as a primary OS, but if I could dual boot it instead of Win10 on my gaming PC that would lesson the pain of MS's betrayal and the loss of some Windows-only games a little bit.
"We are on the cusp of the next AI evolution, in which we, the tech company, can simply say the word 'Money' to our AI, and it will automatically transfer money directly from our investors into our wallets. Future versions won't require us to say anything, permitting AIs to write their own next press release for budding, just-around-the-corner technology in an E-mail to investors."
The thought of how the computer would react to me telling my cat to get down off the desk is . . . both amusing and disturbing.
I love the idea!
I absolutely despise it when it is locked down from the user, owned by the corporation that produced it, and operating as an arm of the surveillance state.
Even discounting the need for safeguards, sanity-checks, and verifiability of information.
Those monstrosities are not allowed in my home until I can remove the spyware operating system.
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.
They are like two to three years out from this being viable in the slightest. If they push this it will be hilariously disastrous.
I thought home assistants already taught us that designated buttons and switches are simply faster and more reliable than voice control?
im supposed to talk to it and it still cant suck my dick
Meet the computer! You can talk to!
Isn't there a version of win11 like Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC?
Gotta get that. All stripped, just the OS and security.
So basically what they got in XP (or earlier) already but 1000x the power requirements.
Yikes.
I am already uncomfortable when my mom talks with her phone to search Google. But hey, she is 83 years old and her health is declining. Maybe she does not need so much privacy any more.
But here is a sad story: I have two friends, a couple. Both are automation engineers. They could not have kids, which was their life dream. So instead, they re-purposed their energy and built their dream house. A beautiful house. And, of course, with a lot of automation and logic programmed by them. Shutters which open in the morning and close when it is stormy. A shower which plays the right morning radio program. Extra settings for when parents-in-law visit.
But what makes me uncomfortable is voice control by speech recognition. All that cortana/siri stuff. For everything, even switching on the light. I don't like that when I visit people. For me, it is like somebody is always listening, even to stuff that is meant only for my friends ears.
I have not told them, but I don't like that house.
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