Oh boy I can't wait to try out this new feature on my laptop that is forced to run Windows 11 because it's a Windows on Arm device and Samsung fucked it up so much that they didn't even include a device tree file in the BIOS so I can't even reinstall Windows. As if I didn't already block gemini using my DNS server and Bing and Microsoft Office servers as a whole. Who is this feature for anyway? Just for data collection for Microsoft? So they can leak more shit through copilot from the rest of the world and companies that are forced to use this dumb operating system? So they can auction off the data to 150 trackers and companies to make a bit more money for an operating system you sometimes have to pay money for? Man IT departments sometimes having to put more work in to disable copilot for Microsoft to also just go behind your fucking back and advertise to your users to use copilot on their phones instead. I hate this company with a burning passion in my heart and soul. They are just as evil and souless as Adobe when it comes to just stealing your data and I'm glad that there will be some effort to avoid Microsoft in the future from countries that is somewhat actually just happening. Google and their shit is just as bad though and I also wish them a quiet stay in fucking hell with gemini and whatnot and leaking of personal information already. I'm just done. No one wants AI and I'm tired of having it get shoved into everything.
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Great. Well I'm not pushing the update icon that's been waiting on me for a few days. If Copilot is invasive and can't be turned off, I may finally jump ship.
I’ve only owned windows machines… well since my first DOS machine in the 90s. I made the switch to Mac after hearing about the embedded Ads in 11.
I’m sure there are many more going to Linux.
Apple's making it easy these days. Mac Minis are cheap and more than enough computer for 95% of people's tasks, while also using sipping watts. I'm on a M4 Mac Mini and it's using 3.91 watts right now. I've run it at full tilt for extended periods of time and I barely heard the fan. It even runs BG3 somehow.
That said, the power button being on the bottom is dumb but not a real issue. MacOS's assumption that you're going to be using a trackpad is annoying for those of us with nice mice. Actually, MacOS is just annoying in a lot of ways. I get that the bumpers are there to keep people from causing long lines at Genius Bars, but I wish there were just a single button that I could hit that tell the machine I know my way around a *nix and don't need to be babied at every turn.
What about the weak old Notebooks?
