Have they tried making it better, I feel like I’m more likely to become addicted to it if it was good.
Explains why they want you to think it’s also a person.
We’re going to MAKE people ADDICTED by
making a REALLY Good Product!SOLVING annoying Problems!TREATING Customers respectfully!FORCING ourselves Onto people like Donald Trump on Little Girls!BREAKING - Companies want customers to get addicted to their products!!!1
Hold on let me put on my surprised look
Yeah, we know
No shit, Sherlock.
And people would actually happily get addicted to an AI assistant which is reliable, safe, capable, kind, and fast.
They really should try making a great product. Then they don’t need any tricks. People love great products.And local and under your control. As a “second brain” that isn’t sentient but intelligent to assist you AI has great potential. In a few years we’ll probably have the models and new hardware to run good enough models locally on cheap enough hardware.
But by then they’ll have drummed enough support for “muh copyright” to buy legislation for AI licensing and make all AI models have to pay a license fee to… “someone”. Like that poor writer who had his work illegally read by an AI. So then no open source models can exist and they have the monopoly. Big win for the little guy lol.
If they want people addicted to an AI, it’s going to have to be a lot better than fucking Copilot.
As slop generators go, it’s about the sloppiest.
Maybe their target audience are masochists?
My non Linux savvy spouse is currently dual booting Linux Mint because Windows has become so frustrating to use.
Mint isn’t perfect. We’ve run into a few bugs and shortcomings. But there’s a big difference between dealing with genuine issues in an OS and using one that feels actively hostile and designed to exploit the user.
If both experiences can be frustrating, why choose the one that’s frustrating by design (unless you absolutely have to) ?
I’ve used Linux for a decade now and windows is so much more buggy and shortcoming. Including new bugs.
Most of my music software doesn’t function correctly on Linux :(
What software
FL studio along with a whole pile of third party VSTs, plus lots of weird audio routings and everything in 96kHz.
Bitwig is neat, but I’d have to buy like $1500 in third party VSTs to do what I do in FL.
I really wish they’d had the balls and/or the legal power to keep calling it FruityLoops.
I mean it’s massively outgrown the original looper app it used to be. It’s top tier for DAW choices now.
You should consider a VM
How much worse is the latency going to get
IDK
Instead they made me addicted to Linux.
Yeah every time I get on my laptop it’s a little more unrecognisable and unusable to me. Will be getting in Linux as soon as I get a chance.
What’s stopping you so far?
Time more than anything, im only on it about 2 hours once a month
A good place to start, if what you do for those two hours a month is just a browser and such, is a live USB with Linux mint (or something like that) and then there is no commitment until you are ready.
SSDs costing $300 for me. For some reason my current drives refuse to partition. I got an old laptop on it, but it barely works regardless of what OS is on it.
Older refurbished Thinkpads are a good and cheap way to go. They save a ton of compatibility headaches which only eat time. Linux is very economical on hardware resources. Or, just use an old pc. I work as a programmer and my main PC is 15 years old now.
I’ve strongly enjoyed cachyOS. Cue downvotes for this, but I installed ClaudeCode (any other cli would work fine too like opencode etc) and gave it a persistent memory as an OS helper of sorts when I get stuck.
Probably moronic to quit windows over AI integration and then set up Linux with the exact same vision just in a completely custom way.
I’ve just started messing around with cachy after using mint for a month and a bit, honestly kinda liking it with KDE over mint now.
Very surprising
Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time’s the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We’ll see what they call number four.
You forgot clippy, but everyone forgets about clippy unless it’s in this exact context. Or it’s Norfolk wizard game.
I can’t believe I forgot Clippy…
Miss you, Tay
What about Microsoft Bob? Doesn’t that count as their first attempt?
Clippy was basically an upgraded Bob kinda like how the old Jeep Cherokees are just upgraded Jeep Wagoneers.
Yeah “but not as annoying” lol. No idea what you mean about jeeps: I’m in the UK, and not a car enthusiast either.
The Cherokee and Wagoneer aren’t distinguishable at first glance, the Cherokee was just an upgraded Wagoneer. That was my point Clippy was just an upgraded Bob with new coat of paint.
Is there any fundamental difference between Copilot and Scout, or is it just a straight up rebranding?
My impression is that scout is specifically going to be an agentic ai. Agentic ai platforms are supposedly a little more competent than chatbots, but still subject to the same llm chicanery and enormous energy usage.
It’s hard to compare against copilot because MS has called a ton of distinct things copilot (see the diagram below).
You forgot they called it Bing in the middle too
“A little sign in here, a touch of wifi there…”
That’s all I know of Cortana.
🔇
That’s Mambo No. 6
Not sure why that had to come on automatically at maximum volume every time, but the number of times I’ve finished backing up and re-imaging a computer at 3 AM, on to have her start hollering at the exact moment my head hits the pillow, is too damn many
Cortana was actually really good on Windows Phone but they dumbed it down and added all sort of crap to it by the time it was integrated onto the desktop. They could’ve doubled down on whatads it good but nope.
@pycorax I second this, Windows Phone 8.1/10 was a godsend in a world of Android/iPhone duopoly (even if made by Microslop) and Cortana was smart enough to almost do everything you could ask of it (unlike the “couldn’t understand what you said” or “calling Superfun New Toy From China” instead of “Super from Building A” that “AI” assistants of its time said).
@finalarbiter
Gotta produce dopamine for that to happen. Not cortisol.
Yeah but one day they will hack it, like every form of advertising and addiction that was pushed on us since tobacco. This is just a new frontier that is unknown right now, like explaining the ridiculous idea of future social media addiction to a user in 2005.
This is microsoft. They broke their own fucking os.
They’re not gonna hack your brain with copilot.
Clippy still whispers to us.
This strategy worked so well for Bing
Duckduck go is thriving using Bing without the AI bullshit.
And Clippy
I will never EVER give an AI agency over any of my personal accounts.
Someone else has probably already done that for you.
You are not the target audience.
Oh we’re the target, just not the customer.
