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Supposedly, according to the Microsoft article, ~~AI PCs~~ CoPilot+ PCs are capable of translating stuff on the fly (which sounds awesome) and generating images, all locally. Allegedly.

I have yet to run into anybody that's actually talked about these so-called innovations though. I have a PC with Windows and the beefy GPU and I would love to get live transcriptions. But the (MS) article doesn't even mention how I would do that...

Even if everything Microsoft promise was true, though, the lines sure are intentionally blurred between what runs locally and what doesn't.

Wow the Microsoft article really is a mess. I honed in on a promise made about "AI PCs" and was initially interested in a promise to do local translation (perhaps of un-subtitled foreign films or news?)

AI PCs are powered by a turbocharged neural processing unit (NPU) [that] performs more than 40 trillion operations per second (TOPS)... This matters because:

• AI tasks, like real-time translation, image generation, and intelligent search, run locally instead of requiring the cloud
• Responses feel faster and smoother
• Your battery lasts longer

(Responses are "faster and smoother" and the battery lasts "longer"... compared to what? Surely those magical cloud AI solutions can go faster and offload AI processing, something Microsoft seems to be jockeying for anyway.)

Never mind that technicality. I want local translation. And my PC can do an AI, I thought, until I realized the definition of "AI PCs" is mixed with a more exclusionary selection of CoPilot+ PCs:

Some of the tools listed, including Recall and Live Captions with Translations, are only available on Copilot+ PCs with an NPU capable of 40 TOPS performance (or better).

GhostArchive came up in discussions.

From Wikipedia

As of 13:27, 19 February 2026 (UTC), the owners are now batch-replacing certain names in archived pages with the real name of the gyrovague.com webmaster as a form of harassment.

The top piece of evidence (not in any special order) was redacted due to "revealing personal information".

Other subsequent pieces of evidence were retained but names were replaced with abbreviations

I have another evidence of tampering: this is a Megalodon archive of a archive.ph archive of a post. The original post is now dead. Patokallio mentions this post in his blog – he would surely mention if the post mentioned him, in the way the archived version does. He quoted the original [N.P.] was a woman[...], while the archive.ph reads Jani Patokallio was a woman[...]

Another example:

Sometime today, Archive.today replaced the name with the equivalent amount of spaces (only where N...'s name used to be). Ironically, "Jani Patokallio" is of the same length as "N...".

"If the truth isn’t enough, then I don’t want it."

Pesky German dissidents sabotage military equipment, 1944.

You can't accuse me of appealing to authority if there was no authority. You either stupidly or maliciously lied. Time to admit it, even consider apologizing and not being a hypocrite for even a moment.

It's a judicial precedent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

Holz told The Register in August 2022 that the company was already profitable.

Is this still the case?

Why don't you show us your Google result that proves Midjourney made of profit?

normal priced hard drive pls

O wise LLM, what authority are you accusing me of appealing to

Take a break from being a hypocrite and realize that if the truth isn't enough, I don't want it.