Honestly, people are rightfully concerned about Microsoft locking down machines, and hackers, and rightfully so, but I think the real insanity is that I do really think LLMs is a tech bubble that I fully expect to burst, and attempting to redesign our lives around it will feel as silly as web3 in 2025.
this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2025
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Nah I'm good I don't dig talking to inanimate objects.
Well, Microsoft can eat a bag of dicks.
Yeah, and I'm sure it also wanted middle managers to write COBOL.
I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.
But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you're alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they're doing on the computer.
My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It's like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.
And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn't need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there's no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.
I was curious about an LLM-powered terminal, so downloaded it to check it out. The first thing I did was ask it to do something like "open my resume file," and instead doing something like "ls | grep -i resume" in the current directory, it ran the find command on root and started hitting all my NFS mounts as well.
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Can it be disabled?
Can it be disabled?
Sure! There'll be a dialog box that comes up every single time that you wake your PC saying:
"Do you want to activate AwesomeAI™ now? 98 percent of the functions of this OS are crippled or unusable until you activate AwesomeAI™ so Microsoft recommends doing so immediately."
And the two options will be "OMG Yes!" , or "Maybe Later".
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Beyond that sounding tedious as fuck, how much will that actually improve workflow? Or is this one of those features that sounds good to people with C level intelligence, and the rest of us just have to pretend we're using.
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Someone watched Star Trek and took their interfaces a bit too literally
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I don't want a fucking experience I just want a computer that works you stupid capitalist fuckhead.
Then it's a good thing it's been a very long time since I last had to care about what Microsoft wants me to do with my computers.
My penguin doesn't listen to what Microsoft wants.
I wonder when they start removing being able to make administrator account on regular licences and make you beg the ai for anything that requires elevated rights.
Yes, "control." That's what Microsoft wants you to have over "your" computer.
Microsoft has no say what happens on my workstation, and never had any.
I like Windows. I like AI. But this like is based on me having ownership over them. Microsoft is what has convinced me to move to Linux when an official SteamOS Desktop is released.
Or you can just as easily install a Linux distro, because that's all steamOS is but slightly game-ified. If anything you'd probably have a better desktop experience with a distro built with that in mind.
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We always knew AI would lead to this one day. But it you ask me that this day is still far away. We‘re not there yet.
"We are on the cusp of the next AI evolution, in which we, the tech company, can simply say the word 'Money' to our AI, and it will automatically transfer money directly from our investors into our wallets. Future versions won't require us to say anything, permitting AIs to write their own next press release for budding, just-around-the-corner technology in an E-mail to investors."