Windows vs. Linux User (files.catbox.moe)

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[-] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 22 points 5 months ago

It's not just AI, but new android phones drive me spare.

You can't disable that. You can't uninstall that. You can't make a backup of the whole phone. You can't make a backup of one app and restore it to a different phone, unless you go through Google. We're going to install these apps you don't want, and there's no way to cancel it.

[-] 73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 months ago

And even if you want to install Android Android, not Google Android, you need to set up Google Android, agree to Google T&C to unlock your bootloader.

[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago

Grapheneos ftw

[-] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 15 points 5 months ago

The irony that the meme has multiple popups about AI being bad while the entire meme is AI-generated.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I agree. Can't quite put my finger on it... maybe the window behind the monitor? I try not to assume simply because of the style, but the lack of author credit makes it hard to check anyway.The weird thing is it wouldn't at all be hard to draw by hand.

Edit: I like all the different answers. It feels like a new, unfortunate version of the "find the differences" game.

[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's also the font on the pop-ups, and the AI logo.

There's a very generic style of Facebook cartoon that these things absolutely nail.

[-] hayvan@piefed.world 2 points 5 months ago

Check out the random items on the desk. They make no sense.

But yes, the biggest giveaway is those slightly blurry pop ups and that not-quite-comicsans font you see in all that slop.

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

It's also the total failure of a punch line in the second frame. Just so robotic sounding.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

keyboard

[-] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago

DOS user: updates? I can set the date in the BIOS if I need...

[-] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's also the part where a windows update unlocks a new kind of fear: "what will it break this time?"

A linux update instead brings the joy of "nice! New things everyone was waiting for!"

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

except nvidia drivers.

fuck nvidia.

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[-] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

hey bro this image kinda smells AI Generated my man

[-] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

Because it is

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

Help me out here whippersnapper, all I can see that is suspicious is the coffee cup and grey note next to it, but everything else looks clean

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

For me it's the text (too regular and perfectly-ruled to be hand lettered, but too much variance between the letterforms to be a font) and the little AI artifact on the random doohickey directly under the bottom left corner of the AI computer monitor: Random doohickey.

Aside from that, it's just the weight of unmotivated choices. Why is the "good" side of the image grayscale while the "bad" side is in color (a human probably would've done it the other way)? Why are the desks drawn slightly differently while the person, chair, and computer are drawn the same (a human would've probably made everything identical to better illustrate their point)? Why all the random clutter on one but not the other (if the point was to make the AI computing experience look scattered and cluttered, surely they would've made it more overwhelmingly cluttered, but if it was for verisimilitude they'd have put clutter on both desks)? Also, subjectively, the "AI" logo on the screen suggests a pleasant experience, not an oppressive one.

An unmotivated choice on its own isn't necessarily an AI calling card, but enough of them together alongside one or two smoking guns can definitely make the case pretty strongly.

[-] pitaya@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

Source or it's AI

[-] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Its obviously AI

Apart from my comment, here's the tldr:

The outlines, the thought bubbles, the general senselessness of the meme and it not being tied to anything Linux users normally do, instead being based on stereotypical stuff regurgitated by most youtubers now

Also the Terminal on the left is just nonsense

Check out the daily slop of Eli the Computer guy, the thumbnails are all AI slop and generally you can really see the parallels once you look at those vs this image

[-] Dojan@pawb.social 1 points 5 months ago

The font stands out, too.

[-] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Also this in another post from the same guy.

[-] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The AI Generated anti AI Meme.

Also, the example has nothing to do with updating or not.

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[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Why is the image 5MB?

[-] Lightfire228@pawb.social 5 points 5 months ago

AI slop

[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This meme itself feels like AI slop. Also, as a dual user, AI is really not that prelevant on Windows, as opposed to my android phone. Not sure how things are on iPhone, but I heard apple intelligence is going "great"

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

DO YOU WANT US TO SET UP YOUR BACKUP NOW OR ASK AGAIN IN 3 DAYS?

[-] lmuel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

AI slop + it doesn't make much sense to begin with

It's not the automatic Updates themselves making Windows bad lol

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 1 points 5 months ago

I really love my switch to linux. It's not all sunshine and roses, i have some weird things that i can't really fix. Some problems are "too hard" for me to fix and i don't care enough. After installing Linux right after windows to dual boot, it's so fucking nice to not have your computer trying to sell you shit all the time, and you don't have to jump through hoops just to get you shit working.

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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

I had to chuckle in an exasperated way when I opened the Xbox app on my phone... and there's a fucking Copilot tab in there as well.

I understand the use cases for AI, but Microsoft seems to be throwing the whole lot at the wall and seeing what sticks.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 5 months ago

Ha! As if Ubuntu didnt update on its own and then completely killed my internet access because it changed the file system of how it stores DNS but didnt somehow do it right to the point of me spending 3 hours figuring out what file I had to recreate and why to get it working again.

Linux is cool but not this make believe version of cool.

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[-] headset@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

What OS do I need to avoid AI sloppers? No one is interested in your mediocre auto generated garbage.

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[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Where's the part where I can't turn my monitor on without having to pull the HDMI and reinsert?

This crap reminds me of console fanboy ism/wars.

[-] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have the same issue with my shiny displayport monitor when i turn it off, while the secondary, 180€ HDMI-monitor simply does not care at all. IIRC, it's a combination of Nvidia GPU + Wayland + DP that triggers it on my system, my logs muttered something about the display not being unregistered, which causes it to not turn on because it cannot be created - details are hazy, i simply do not turn it off anymore

[-] theit8514@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Clearly the Linux user just broke their prompt by updating. Classic.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

AI-generated comics be like:

[-] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 months ago

It's unusual that Linux users are so cool with tinkering to get everything exactly how they want. Unless it's windows. No tinkering for them there.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

one needs third party apps of questionable trustworthiness and even then you can't definitively verify it isn't periodically screenshotting everything you do and uploading it with your unique tpm tied to it

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