Imagine booting up visual studio and having to load into a full 3d world where you are also sitting at a desk and coding on a slightly smaller screen in third person.

Zuck tried exactly this though

My login process for getting to Outlook or Excel or Word or whatever is just more annoying now as I have to navigate around the useless fucking AI splash page they injected between me and the apps I actually want. Love to have an employer mandated operating system and unaccountable tech bro decisions I can't roll back! They unilaterally made my life worse and are burning rainforests to do it, hooray!

Honestly, the number of inconveniences on Linux these days is a pretty small list, and getting smaller all the time.

yeah I'm done with it as well.. i had a 4tb drive that i was using between windows and Linux for stuff like games and whatnot, but i finally just went thru the 7 hour process of copying the data to a large external drive, then redoing the filesystem to ext4 from ntfs, and moving it all back and fixing the permissions and all that.

Windows is finally dead to me.. at least 15 years past when i should've just killed it off from my daily use

Wired has been running a lot of paid pro-AI content along the lines of "a small cohort of early adopters has cracked the code and if you don't hop on now you'll never catch up" so I'm assuming there's a wave of doubling down coming.

will just double down as long as they can fuck over the plebs

i found a script the other day that removes every piece of ai from windows 11 and i'm so thankful for it.

At work all i have is copilot and the client/website is so bad it easily hits several gigs of ram usage and falls over the second it has to render too much text grinding my shitty work machine to a halt. Meanwhile all the management is crying about us not using copilot enough and not going faster while this shit actually slows me down

Literally stopped using Windows

Yeah there’s an institutional rot problem with Microsoft where the higher ups still have that 90’s-aughts mentality of “we’re Microsoft, we can brute force our way into people using our platforms.” So anything built up internally feels like a product that skipped the “be good at launch to entrench a wide user base” step and went straight to enshittification.

Microsoft clearly isn't good at marketing AI crap either. So buying a "better" "AI" isn't going to be smooth sailing for them.

We should all change our pfps to clippy in protest

Both are true. Copilot is the name for their reskin of chat gippity but its also the rebranded name for office 365 which is now called microsoft 365 copilot because that makes sense. Literally all they had to do was do nothing but I guess thats too much for microshit.