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Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[+] [email protected] -6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's silly how people react to this, a feature that can be turned off with a simple setting toggle, by recommending that people should instead install a whole new operating system and tech stack. If opening the preferences menu and clicking a toggle is too complicated or too much of a hassle then installing Linux isn't going to be better.

[–] BombOmOm 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's not just one thing. It's been a barrage of crap for years and years. That pile of manure gets awfully heavy as you make it taller.

As an example. they still haven't fixed the Settings/Control Panel stuff. That has been in the works for what, over a decade now? A core feature just....allowed to rot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It isn't about flipping a switch, it about how many times I've had to flip that fucking switch because a company keeps changing how I have my PC setup because they want more money.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They've never had this feature before.

And as far as I'm aware Copilot is a free service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And as far as I’m aware Copilot is a service they use to harvest your data and make money from.

ftfy

Nothing is free. Your data has value, stop giving it away in trade for some crap that may or may not be worth it while these companies make bank off you.

They’ve never had this feature before.

Yeah, and what of Cortana or all the services that came before that I didn't ask for or even need but had to spend time turning that shit off because I didn't want it and it was using resources.