• cosmic_cowboy@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    Horrifying privacy implications aside, AI has really become the new cryptocurrency.

    Don’t get me wrong, both technologies are interesting, but it’s tiring to see both be forced into applications that functioned just fine without them.

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      2 months ago

      It’s arguably worse, since it seems to be more pervasive than crypto and NFTs were at their peak.

      Crypto never really hit the mainstream, and even NFTs were still fringe. Whereas AI and AI accelerators are packed into basically every new phone and (Intel) processor.

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        2 months ago

        There are way more uses cases to the average person than crypto so that’s only natural. There’s also a trust issue with crypto that doesn’t exist with AI, as well as losing your money when things go wrong.

        That being said, I don’t approve of this nor adding it randomly to products where it clearly has little use. If people want generative software, they can just choose to install it.

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        2 months ago

        Why call out Intel? Pretty sure AMD and Nvidia are both putting dedicated AI hardware in all of their new and upcoming product lines. From what I understand they are even generally doing it better than Intel. Hell, Qualcomm is advertising their AI performance on their new chips and so is Apple. I don’t think there is anyone in the chip world that isn’t hopping on the AI train

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          Because I was only aware of Intel (and Apple) doing it on computers, whereas most major flagship mobile devices have those accelerators now.

          GPUs were excluded, since they’re not as universal as processors are. A dedicated video card is still by and large considered an enthusiast part.

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            Fair enough. Was just asking because the choice of company surprised me. AMD is putting "AI Engines in their new CPUs (separate silicon design from their GPUs) and while Nvidia largely only sells GPUs that are less universal, they’ve had dedicated AI hardware (tensor cores) in their offerings for the past three generations. If anything, Intel is barely keeping up with its competition in this area (for the record, I see vanishingly little value in the focus on AI as a consumer, so this isn’t really a ding on Intel in my books, more so making the observation from a market forces perspective)

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    2 months ago

    The Eye

    (It knows you, it sees all that you do) (You cant hide) (…) (You thought so much about whether or not you Could, that you didn’t think about if you should) (quite a scary thing) (to be so fully Known) (I hope that there is going to be a way to disable that)

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    2 months ago

    As worse and worse win11 features are unveiled it’s so funny to see these posts slowly filled with more “yeah i just switched to linux” comments.

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        what specs do you have? im wondering since im planning to install it on my school laptop (lenovo thinkpad 11e 4th gen, 4gb ram, 128gb ssd, intel celeron, integrated graphics.) and in wondering if it would work somewhat fast, especially at web browsing.

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          My apologies on the late reply, I currently have Bazzite on three devices, My main PC: Ryzen 7 3700X, RX 5600, 64Gb DDR. My main laptop, a Lenovo E590. And my backup laptop: A Lenovo L412. So far, I prefer it over windows on all three.

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      And removing one of the best features, the subsystem for android. It stops making sense from many people’s perspectives and using a linux program like waydroid would probably be better than using android studio on Windows11.

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    So I’m trying to figure out a way to jip Microsoft. We’ve already got a way to activate windows for free, but LTSC images need to be available - because that’s where we get away from Microsoft’s bullshit.

    Unless Microsoft removes access to DISM and gp, we’ll still be able to cut off that “always online” limb.

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      That’s not, wasn’t, and never will be free even if you don’t ritual with your Talisman, the dollar.

      Closed source software isn’t about making money. That’s just a sucker tool to vacuum people that accept shit-worse-than slavery from the dollar.

      Free means to ditch any and all software that some person you don’t gorram know bar one pedophile who stole everyone else’s written software and turned around selling it promising what it does. Even he doesn’t know jack fucking squat about what it really does.

      If you flip that for the trust you gave over the then the news is that you’re an even more gullible sucker and it isn’t a gamble on whether or not the next software cracker will kidnap the rest of your family as well.

      The life of everyone in your family will inevitably become the truth serum regenex for Steve Jobs when they unfreeze his ass. If you think he really is dead then you weren’t paying the fuck attention to his stock market vaccine six months before his ice cube.

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          The obvious truth you think ain’t cuz the writer knew you would understand what the real dimensions against reality we live in are without your inability to perceive them.

          It’s not difficult. You can see it. Let me throw an example of one them.

          We see 4 dimensions. Height, width, Length and time right?

          There’s another multidimensional track here. This is the Story. It’s a little more complicated and I’d be foolish to claim understanding of that; though I would easily say the I know a few of them. I’ve read many Sci-Fi, Fantasy and a few others.

          That’s just an example. I am trying to give you understanding but if you continue to ask questions that are essentially a weapon using ignorance to attempt to smear someone who is attempting to help everyone before the Sun smite gorram planet like Mars for our universal suicide in ways we can’t begin to understand let alone describe should we actually know anything about it let alone understand anything.

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            You can’t tell the difference between an AI and a real person because your understanding of reality was fed to you by children in culture’s trap persuading you to summon the 10 dimension into the essence of your soul flux into theirs.

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      2 months ago

      You want to get rid of Microsoft’s BS while still using Microsoft? I think you already know the only answer is Linux.

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        In some cases, that’s still not possible for m, although my personal laptop that I use daily runs Fedora Atomic.

        But I also recently reinstalled another laptop with Windows 11, promptly stripped the whole thing of all kinds of apps and services, installed a bunch of audio software, libraries, etc, to prepare a machine to be show worthy.

        When the day comes and Ableton ports Live to Linux proper is when I will forego a bulk of my VST’s, but running it under wine for real-time purposes is not reliable at all - so eh. There’s Bigwig, but I got like years of Max patches that I just can’t live without, and I don’t need just a DAW. In fact, if you ask me to leave Live, I’ll tell you to fly a kite.

        Same issue it’s always been, unfortunately, that vendors do not support the Linux desktop. Go bother the vendors about platform supoort. I do, frequently. In fact, time for another ticket - and this one is going to be political.

        Thanks for the reminder.

  • cheee@lemmings.world
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    2 months ago

    For the average user, with maybe a little bit of IT knowledge but doesn’t work in IT, what can we do for ourselves and our families other than go to win 11 eventually?

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      Unironically, switch to Linux. Mainstream distros like Mint, PopOS or Ubuntu are very friendly for casual users, have GUIs for everything and if something does go wrong, the error messages actually have proper meaning and you’ll find tons of resources online as well as people willing to help.

      Most stuff nowadays runs in a browser anyway, so here there’s no compatibility issues, office is available in Linux through libre office and gaming has come far with steam and proton.

  • Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world
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    So, how will this work and comply with laws regarding its use in a medical institution?

    What about its use in a company that has extremely valuable trade secrets that need to be kept that way?

    What about the military?

    Wouldn’t this make for an excellent target to harvest data for hackers?

    I wonder if Win 11 LTSC will leave it out.

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      2 months ago

      Other than them having some setting only for enterprise users, there’s another question - what has more weight, Microsoft or the law?

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      2 months ago

      Microsoft will release a GPO or MEM setting that works 20 percent of the time to turn off the constant AI data mining, only available to enterprise SKUs.

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      Military would be fine, because they don’t tend to update very frequently, if at all. If it works, that’s the way it will stay, and the recent controversy wouldn’t exactly encourage them to do so.

      What about its use in a company that has extremely valuable trade secrets that need to be kept that way?

      Same way the LLM debacle has currently gone, where people will just throw sensitive information into it with abandon. At least one major tech company has penalised workers for doing that with ChatGPT.

      If there’s a group policy to turn it off, maybe, but Microsoft might just not have one, or it’ll need to be disabled every update.

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          The hard part in doing that is making it compatible with everything. It’s not useful if it can’t run everything.

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    Yep, the AI will be watching, including porn. (not confirmed since not out)

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    It’s an open secret that Microsoft is gearing up to supercharge Windows 11 this summer with next-gen AI capabilities that will enable the OS to be context aware across any apps and interfaces, as well as remember everything you do on your PC to enhance user productivity and search.

    These new capabilities are set to ship as part of a new app internally called “AI Explorer,” which I’m told will be unveiled during Microsoft’s special Windows event on May 20.

    The feature is also said to be exclusive to devices powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X series chips, at least at first, as Intel and AMD play catchup in the NPU race.

    AI Explorer is able to do more than just remember the things you do on your computer, it’s also able to analyze what’s currently on-screen and provide contextual suggestions and tasks based on what it can see.

    This capability is called Screen Understanding, and I’m told one of the big selling points of AI Explorer is that it’s supposed to work across any app, with no developer input required.

    The existence of Rewind.ai proves that this is a concept that can be done, and Microsoft is essentially building its own version into Windows 11 that offloads the resources required for such a feature onto NPUs to keep the load away from the CPU.


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    Honestly I think windows is so fucked in terms of market share and it seems like they are kind of just pre-emptively ceding the battle to linux intentionally or not.

    Yeah people have been waiting for years for linux to eat windows for lunch and it hasn’t happened yet but I am convinced that linux becoming massively more practical and easy to use for gaming (Steam deck being a good catalyst) in the last couple of years has pushed things past a tipping point. Gaming might not make up the outsized chunk of desktop usage, but gaming is where people experiment, try new things, learn software inside and out and it is where people are most inspired to contribute and build and polish out the annoying little details of complex systems.

    Yeah Microsoft will have its walled moats around entire sectors of business indefinitely into the future, and that probably is where most of the consistent money is, but I think Microsoft shitting the bed with Windows 11 so hard is creating the rosiest forecast for the future of Linux desktops I have ever seen in my life.

    These twin factors converging has got me bullish af on Linux in the near to mid term.

    Let’s fuckinnn gooooooo

    • thatirishguyyy@lemmy.todayOP
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      The day Linux says all video games are compatible with their OS is the day I finally switch from Windows for good.

      Until then I’m using a pirated version of Win11Pro and wondering how this AI will work with pirated copies.

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        The day Linux says all video games are compatible with their OS is the day I finally switch from Windows for good.

        I mean Wine and steamOS’s Proton are that though? I mean compatibility isn’t perfect but the vast majority of games I have tried worked all the way from current AAA games to games like Steel Panthers WinspWW2 that is a DOS game from the 90s that barely functions on a modern windows computer but yet runs perfect on my Deck. Because the deck is using a virtual environment to emulate a windows OS it actually arguably creates a more stable platform to run windows software than windows itself running the program normally.

        Pretty much the only obstacle left is stupid super invasive anticheat/spyware software that doesn’t bother to cover Linux in competitive multiplayer games.