“We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents,” Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. “An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks.”
Looks like this isn’t ripe for abuse in any way…
sarcasmYou just know MS is going to find a way to abuse this ‘feature’ to change people’s settings behind their backs in any way they see fit.
This reeks of the type of malware that used to take complete control of your PC and change settings maliciously, and even delete important files or straight-up nuke your OS install in the worst-case scenario, but made ‘legitimate’ somehow. Yes, MS is really stooping that low to make one of the worst types of malware an actual OS feature.
I am pretty sure Microsoft doesn’t need an AI agent to access your settings.
However, that AI agent might be a new attack vector for someone else.
If this literal malware (I say that because again, what MS is proposing here is what some actual viruses used to do, typically to an even worse degree than simply changing settings) gets ported to the Enterprise/Education and IoT SKUs, the people who work on this stuff for a living at the local call center or public school district are going to have a nightmare on their hands.
I’d hope even if it exists on managed workstations, it wouldn’t be able to change settings that are managed by administrators… If it can, what the fuck.
“Hey Copilot- download the most recent ISO of KDE Neon.”
Side-thing, but man am I very happy with Neon and where KDE is overall.
Finally went to Linux Desktop as my main, after trying off and on for 20 years.
Copilot: What is my purpose?
User: You download and install Linux.
Quick! I need a guide on how to disable this.
There isn’t a settings switch to turn off?
Pop_OS or Bazzite, IMO.
Unfortunately, Ubuntu is corporate bloatware these days.
worse they make windows, more people want to switch off from it and alternative become more popular and thus get better support for stuff.
So maybe one should be all for the ai bullshit they force down their users throats. Maybe they will eventually really break the camel’s back.
Blackmagic please, for the benefit of all editors, make DaVinci Resolve work properly on Linux. I’d switch tomorrow.
What’s wrong with it? Works fine for me. Ubuntu 24.04
Idk what I did and Im sure it was my fault, but it bricked my linux mint when I tried to install it
“Bricked” implies that it rendered your hardware unusable. Or has the definition changed?
The AAC issue and working directly from a NAS. It’s adding a lot to the workload to work around AAC. NAS could be a me issue, but other programs have no issue with accessing it and working directly from it.
Fair, I’ve seen a ton of complaints about Resolve’s lack of AAC support for far too long, so if your workflow depends on AAC encoding and decoding directly inside Resolve you shouldn’t have to bend over backwards to work around that.
That said I’ve done all of my video editing in Resolve Studio on Linux for years now and haven’t had any trouble. I’m using an Atomos Ninja to record, since my camera outputs 10-bit 4:2:2 over its HDMI port but records 8-bit 4:2:0 internally. The Ninja records PCM and so the AAC issue has never bitten me.
The only thing I can complain to Blackmagic Design about is their official support of Rocky Linux only. The udev rules for things like the Speed Editor or Micro Color Panel don’t work properly for Ubuntu- or Arch-based distros, meaning anyone who wants official support is stuck with their specific modified Rocky Linux ISO. Through trial and error I’ve proven that it works fine on AlmaLinux 9.5 too, so that’s what I’m using, but honestly I’d rather be using something with a newer kernel and better hardware support.
Works fine on bazzite for me.
About 20 years ago I would handle my email, IRC, watching movies and web browsing on Linux and each time I wanted to play Counter Strike I would reboot and switch to windows. After I was done with CS I would boot back to Linux. People who say they can’t use Linux because X doesn’t work there are just lazy.
I get where you’re coming from, and I tried this. The point is to get away from windows, and if the main program I use my computer for lacks essential features that affect my work, then I can’t switch.
Honestly, calling people lazy without context just makes you another Linux bro and doesn’t help bring people over.
The point is to limit time spent using Windows. Some people can take it down to 0%, others can’t. Spending 10% less time on Windows still let’s you learn about Linux and try different things. In couple of years you could change jobs or software and make it 50% Linux, then 90%… Not switching because you can’t immediately make it 0% windows, 100% Linux is basically saying “I would switch but it would require effort on my side and would be inconvenient”.
And yes, you’re right, it doesn’t make you lazy, sorry for that. It just means that you’re not really that bothered by using Windows and avoiding it is not worth the effort for you. It’s fine, just be honest about it.
just a simple search feature works.
I don’t like how computing was cool and clean internally, if a bit harsh, like in Star Wars EU or even Foundation (the Foundation would do dishonest things, probably on the track to our reality, but already less), and now it’s becoming arcane, poisonous, messed up and oppressive like in Stargate SG-1. In the goauld part. Can we not be goauld slaves pls?..
Oh no you don’t
[deletes wuaueng.dll because windows update has turned itself back on like 5 times]
I set up my pc as dual boot a few weeks back. Opened up windows yesterday, for the first time in a while, to export a few settings from thunderbird. Took about half an hour to get it started. Felt like popping round to the house of an abusive ex to pick up the last of my things.
They really are trying to drive away their user base huh
No, we’re just not their target market. Most of their users, inexplicably, actually like changes like this.
Yea, but in my experience most people just dont care.
Ok let me play devil’s advocate and preface this with I’m not a big windows fan at all since I primarily use MacOS and Linux, but I could see this as moderately useful but used in a slightly different way. I don’t want the AI to actually make the changes by itself, even with my permission. But being able to ask it a natural language question about how to make a specific change and then walking me through how to make those changes, like showing me where in the the menu or OS that setting is hiding could be very useful. In the long run it could help teach the end user more about the OS and how things are organized and setup.
Just my 2¢
That already exists. Do a search on the web and follow someone’s steps. You don’t need an AI to do it. An actual intelligence has already created a guide for you.
trying to format C: to install linux
I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave
Just put the search results in under the search bar, bro.
Maybe if you didn’t split settings into that half-baked settings app, then leave control panel in place with the remaining settings, but make control panel increasingly difficult to get to, we wouldn’t need a stupid AI agent to help us change settings.
Yes! I really feel all this copilot bullshit is to hide the fact they released windows 11 broken as fuck and here 2.5 years later it’s still a pile of shit. It’s just fucked. I have to use it daily for work and clients and it’s done nothing but prepare me to install W10 LTSC this summer or move to Linux. Problem with Linux is a have an Nvidia GPU and don’t like having to fuck with that, otherwise Zorin it will be. Windows 11 pushes me everyday to hate it more and more. Seriously. Daily fucking updates for broken shit and shoving AI down our throats. Fuck windows.
I’m dualbooting CachyOS with windows, no issues with my rtx 4070 super.
I’ll look into it again this summer. It’s on the list, just not at the moment
CachyOS rocks. I settled on it after trying many Linux distros and CachyOS won. All distros had pros and cons CachyOS was easy to update. Easy to install and remove programs without the terminal. Proton and Wine run great on it so most of my Steam and Epic games are playable and all media types play without tinkering. That was an issue with Fedora.
I have an nvidia GPU and it worked out of the box.
I need to look into it more, it’s on my list for this summer
I’m in a similar situation, though I’ve already got a dual boot set up so it’s just a matter of only using Windows when I just absolutely have to.
Earlier today, I tried to zip a directory on Windows 11 with the context menu, and it wouldn’t do it! It’s a feature that’s been in Windows forever and is even in Ubuntu, but somehow over at Microsoft they’ve managed to break it. Incredible.
Windows 11 actually released 3.5 years ago!
Oof.
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Ot you can just right click the start menu
Can’t wait to see all the exciting ways this fucks up people’s computers.
“To err is human, but it takes a computer to really fuck things up”
True but not quite for the reason you probably quoted it. The computer is merely a force multiplier for the human stupidity.
“All the ways”
