Microsoft continues to integrate more AI features into Windows 11

Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files.

Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev Channel builds of Windows 11, including Bing visual search to find similar images on the web, the blur background and erase objects features found in the Photos app, and the remove background option in Paint.

  • snailboy@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    1 month ago

    Today I had to disable Copilot in Notepad.

    Notepad.

    The shitty word editor that you use to jot down your shitty writing before copypasting it into somewhere else to put actual work into it.

    You’re telling me I can’t change the shitty line-spacing in shitty Notepad, but I can get a top-of-the-line corporate LLM to help me with my purposely shitty writing?

    #keepnotepadshitty

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    23·
    1 month ago

    Dear baby jesus. If I weren’t a Linux user I’d scream to stop all of this AI stuffing

    Then again, I’m a Linux user and I’m just laughing.

    Join Linux, come to the dark side, we got cookies

  • dorumon@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    1 month ago

    You know it’s funny that Microsoft took this feature from Apple from macOS. But here’s the thing right? This shit requires a super computer npu to run and meanwhile my 2012 MacBook Pro with a core i5 3rd gen running opencore legacy patcher can just do this stuff in the exact same way. For the features one would actually wanna use this for.

  • sbird [moved to sopuli]@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    1 month ago

    possible issues:

    1. blurred a part of the photo that shouldn’t be blurred, data loss
    2. erased the wrong object, data loss
    3. deleted large chunks of content in my docs/ppts/spreadsheets I wanted to keep, data loss

    This is a really bad idea

  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    191·
    1 month ago

    Damn I thought it was going to be at least useful like a text prompt.

    “Search all these files dumped and find me the ones from my old pc, move them all to the same location on the biggest spare partition that isn’t the os one, and then organize them into folders by general idea without breaking up the coherency of the directories. And do it without losing the existing modified or created dates. Retain the original organization in an xml doc that you can read, just in case I don’t like the organization and want to try again.”

    Or

    “Install all libre stuff and all of the most useful windows tools. Delete, disable, tear out, and block all telemetry from this Windows installation. There must be privacy and zero enshittification on this computer. Go through, file by file, including all hidden and file systems and services, reading through each and every binary, and decompile, rip out any spyware or telemetry, and recompile. You have a week and this system will be disconnected from the internet entirely for the duration. Go.”

    This is the type of ai that would actually be useful to me. Imagine the power of being able to fully delegate lower level tasks like this.

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 month ago

    I was actually delighted when Windows 11 added tabs to notepad and explorer, and layers make MSPaint worth using.

    But all of these things became buggy messes. Explorer showing ads for OneDrive and inexplicable behavior, On more than one occasion, the address bar would become unusable, and I deeply resent having to use the mouse to do simple tasks.

    Now I know that this was prelude to Copilot.

    So now I daily drive Debian making me a computer user, not a resource for billionaires to mine.

  • toastmeister@lemmy.caEnglish
    171·
    1 month ago

    This is a whole new level of data mining, which is why they want it. Now they will scan everything that’s open.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      they want to justify the cost of using AI, which they admit to not generating any profit, they are trying to sell off as much data as they can, so they can offsett the cost of power/water intensive AI.

  • mooncake@lemm.eeEnglish
    162·
    1 month ago

    If Linux was more compatible with a lot of programs/games there would be absolutely no reason to install windows ever again

    • renegadesporkAEnglish
      17·
      1 month ago

      I finally switched to full-time Linux last year and I haven’t missed anything. The only stuff that doesn’t work (and doesn’t have a good alternative) are games with invasive anti-cheat that I wanted to boycott anyway.

      • coolmojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        Most is the anti cheat games are not working on Windows either. They only give you some dubious error message.

        • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          I’ll just go by protondb.com and most what I want to play is either gold or platinum rated, or even native.

          I only have 106 games in my library, and out of those 66 are native, 43 are gold or platinum and 1 is unrated. I’ve bought nearly all of then before even switching from Windows to Linux about nine months ago.

          Using arch btw.

          • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Proton is so good that often games run better with Proton than native too. Usually because the developer puts little effort in the linux native version. Proton is such a godsend.

            • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              1 month ago

              I’ve had this experience with both Gungeon Trine and Slay The Spire.

    • sbird [moved to sopuli]@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      I’m not missing anything, even games run fine with Wine/Proton. Also, a lot of the Linux games a really fun! (I personally enjoy Xonotic and SuperTuxKart. I also like to play custom roms with mgba) The only thing I’m missing is pretty much ONE really niche network program thing which didn’t have a Linux version. Everything else either has a Linux version, is a Windows game that can be run with Wine, or has some Linux alternative (think inkscape, kdenlive, okular)

      • vala@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        What networking program? If it’s not some proprietary protocol I bet there is a Linux tool that does it.

        • sbird [moved to sopuli]@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          23 days ago

          A VPN. I couldn’t get V2rayA (the vpn uses v2ray, there’s a win + mac app for that specific vpn but not linux) to work. I might have to have another crack at it soon…

          edit: Clash Verge (rev) works like a charm! Hooray!

          • vala@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            I don’t understand why a VPN needs special software to work honestly but I guess that’s valid. It’s likely it would “work” in wine but idk if it will be able to do what it needs to.

            • sbird [moved to sopuli]@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              23 days ago

              not special software, but it has an app that lets you log in on win and mac. On Linux, I was able to log in and see all the servers but when I set it as proxy it didn’t work :( I might try again later

              edit: Clash Verge is supported by the VPN, but I thought there was no Linux app (turns out there is!) and it works fine! Hooray!

      • mooncake@lemm.eeEnglish
        22·
        1 month ago

        Yeah but having to use third party software to run games is annoying and it’s probably buggy and you more than likely get errors

        I mainly play WoW and I doubt that’ll run effectively.

        Just looking up online how to install it already looks tedious.

        • sbird [moved to sopuli]@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I mean all I’m using is Steam, adding them as “non-steam games”. I’ve also found some game art to make it look nice. For me at least, I haven’t run into any issues besides at one point one of my games was missing a few shaders causing it to render improperly (I forgot to move the files from my Windows installation, but after I did everything worked!)

          It wasn’t difficult to install at all! I just installed steam (for fedora you need to make sure you enable third-party repos when furst installing the OS) and that’s basically it. I’ve also installed Wine manually (not very hard, just “sudo dnf install wine” on fedora) to run a few non-game programs like some compiled .exe programs I made a few years ago by running “wine [program name]”. It’s crazy how simple it all is now!

        • Decq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          Just get lutris and I expect it works just fine. Worked fine for overwatch, so i expect WoW too.

          But you’re right, launchers are usually the biggest issue when its comes to compatibility. Especially that completely useless piece of shit Rockstar peddles.

          I rather run everything in third party apps than deal with Windows again,. But each his own of course.

  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.caEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    Don’t get me wrong - this is awful and is just another misstep in a long line of missteps by Microsoft.

    But I also can’t help but chuckle at this. It is so clear that “AI” as it has been developed today is hitting a peak of what it can do. These corporations are desperate to shove it in every product they possibly can to drive sales and valuations to make shareholders wet and yet the only things they ever advertise AI being capable of are crap like summaries, background removal, background insertion, grammar/typo checking, list making, web searching, etc. Most of it being crap that I have never once heard of a person being even remotely interested in… and why would they be? Why would someone want to edit their photos to add a different sky, new people, etc to create memories that never happened?