• anachrohack@lemmy.world
      42·
      17 days ago

      You don’t have to enable any of those things, though. I don’t even have W11 signed into a MS account. I use W11 mostly for C++ development these days though.

      • yesman@lemmy.world
        12·
        17 days ago

        Don’t you understand that being constantly nagged to use their products so they can monotise you is disrespectful? Would you keep a friend who started every conversation with a pitch for their MLM? I mean you’re not obligated!

        I understand that it’s just business, but to me that’s just capitalist Nirenberg defense. So please don’t respond with some version of “it is what it is”, because I view that as learned helplessness.

        EDIT: what Windows users might not get is that booting into Windows occasionally means that it’s going to bombard you with an avalanche of pop ups and nag-dialogues that a person who’s logging in every day might not appreciate.

        Sure you can silence most of that, until the next necessary security update.

        • anachrohack@lemmy.world
          21·
          17 days ago

          it’s going to bombard you with an avalanche of pop ups and nag-dialogues that a person who’s logging in every day might not appreciate

          I’m not sure what you’re talking about because I just don’t get any of those.

          1. I never installed anything related to 365
          2. I opted out of onedrive
          3. I turned off copilot

          And I never get popups for them. I main Xubuntu but probably spend half my time in Windows 11 for software development and W11 is basically just a visual studio machine for me. I upgraded my CPU recently and it’s pretty snappy now, too!

          I’m not saying your view is wrong, I’m just saying that your experience has been completely different from mine apparently

  • saltnotsugar@lemm.ee
    24·
    18 days ago

    Me: Hey bank AI, how much money is in my account?
    Bank AI: (long pause) It looks like there are five banks in your area.

  • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    17 days ago

    Fuck, just tried to log into office.com to email a coworker that my stupid windows updates were going to make me late to a meeting and apparently I must use the copilot app instead of the web browser.

    Fuck no, guess they will find out when I get there.

  • purrtastic@lemmy.nz
    10·
    17 days ago

    You missed the other key detail: “and raised the price regardless of whether we use AI”.

    I finally migrated my work email from Google workspace specifically because they jacked the subscription price and justified it due to Gemini, a tool I never used.