Read the whole post. I acknowledged them already and am expressing my doubts over the true motivations that drive Microsoft to force a tech like this upon all their users and express my concerns over the real use they will make of this technology.

Don’t you try to change the meaning of my post just so you can have a cause to white knight over. This isn’t Reddit.

An image is worth a thousand words. How is reading a text describing what is on the screen going to be better than just looking at the screen yourself, something you’ll need to do to read the description anyway? Aside from accessibility for the blind, the practicality such a technology is questionable.

The motivation behind this is obviously to facilitate the collection and reporting user profiling data. Accessibility for the blind is only a side effect. Tech companies have been doing it with automated audio transcriptions for years already, now they’re after what you look at on your screen.

Good on them. The earlier they can shut down those coal plants, the better.

Daily driven Mint, OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Fedora. They’re all great, with their own pros and cons.

Also Microsoft products have become enshitified beyond recognition.

It’s some sketchy pre-cracked Jack Sparrow edition I torrented to run exclusively offline in a VM and will never let it connect to the internet because I don’t trust it. I’m not too worried about getting security updates for it.

I exclusively use it to run Autodesk Inventor for making 3D printable objects. Once the STL is created I just drag and drop it out of the VM into my Linux machine. It’s the only communication with the outside world it will ever have.

I have a copy of Windows 10 LTSC that I have installed on a virtual machine just in case I need the one last program that I use that I cannot get to work on Linux.

Lately I upgraded my machine and had to reinstall everything. As I was installing Windows on my VM, it started demanding that I create an account and wouldn’t let me proceed without one, asked me to associate third party accounts to my OS and was generally being extremely intrusive and forceful in ways I didn’t remember it being before, like opening Edge and forcing me to click through an introduction that I didn’t want without giving me the option to close it. I then realized that I had forgotten to disable network access to my VM and that Windows had downloaded updates during the install.

I immediately destroyed that VM and started over again, this time without allowing it to connect to internet. Suddenly the experience was far better.

The moment I had let Windows connect to the internet it had thoroughly enshittified itself. It let me appreciate how badly Microsoft has enshittified Windows 10 over the years ever since its release. We are far away from the Windows 7 days.

Install Linux

9gag is a cesspool of Russian trollbots.

Teams will die for Copilot somehow.

Hence why they very rarely include expandable storage as an option on their devices. Gotta overcharge the suckers for a laughably small increase in storage space. Or even better: Have them pay monthly fees for cloud storage.

“Wait a minute. Are we the baddies?”

Windows: “OK, I’ll keep asking every day just in case you change your mind. Then one day I’ll just do it without asking”

Windows: “There is something wrong with that weird drive I’ve just found. Do you want me format it to ‘fix’ it?”

Me: “Alright Windows, your permission to exist on my computer has been revoked.”

Narrator: “Turned out Windows never needed Edge to work”

Even cheaply you can still easily find something to make buttons that are of a consistent size and shape. And not put one of them on top of the edge panel of the console like one of them is on the picture. This is a typical telltale sign of AI: things that aren’t uniform when they should be and are located in nonsensical places.

There is also asymmetry and sewing lines that make no sense between the left and right gloves and what looks like is supposed to be a pair of pens on his upper right arm is just two nonsensical blobs of crome texture.

No one seems to know about what movie or show this is supposed to be from either…

Look at the red buttons by the guy’s right hand. They look like a bunch of skittles of different sizes. It is definitely AI

Only $4000 for the entry model. That’s how much it costs once the tariffs on the semiconductors that you simply cannot produce in the country for at least 10 more years even if you tried has been covered, the salaries high enough to motivate people to willingly work the assembly lines now that immigrant workers are gone, and the markup needed to cover the cost of completely creating an entire supply chain from scratch as well as paying back the insane debt that results from the outrageous high risk investments this would require and that frankly no investor would want to touch with a 10 foot pole.

Wait what? Can we give more details? What do you mean by stalked?

In any healthy democracy, this would have been seen as a scandal exposing signs of corruption and would have likely resulted in the dissolution of the government and early election.

But the US is not a healthy democracy.