not_IO6d ago

microslop

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/40015631

Blåhaj Lemmy - Choose Your Interface

Show threadtaiyang
I hope this comment doesn’t age well, but I’m betting Windows 12 will remove the start menu entirely and replace it with a copilot prompt box that opens applications by text or voice activation. There are no alternatives and not updating is not an option.
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Show threadnot_IO6d ago
don’t let them read this!
Show threadWanderingThoughts6d ago
OpenAI already suggested this one. Microsoft played with the idea and wanted “further integration into the os” but they’re pulling back from that now that everybody is calling them MicroSlop.
Show threadnot_IO6d ago
you would think they’d’ve learned their lesson with “cortana”
Show threadWanderingThoughts6d ago
And then comes in a new manager who still needs to learn that lesson and is dead set on disrupting something.
Show threadNickwithaC6d ago
Hello Linux Mint!
Show threadtaiyang6d ago
I’ve gone CachyOS but to each their own, hehe.
Show threadgndagreborn6d ago
I genuinely felt the veins lining the periphery of my brain throb at the thought.
Show threadtaiyang6d ago

Or at the very least, you ask for Firefox and they open Edge “accidentally.”

Then gives you a nice big list of things you can do with your browser that you didn’t ask for.

Show threadSamskara6d ago
Some kind of AI first operating system will come over the next couple of years.
Show threadMadMadBunny6d ago

That’s their actual goal. Subscription-based, with an insane, seizure-inducing, amount of ads.

And it’s coming sooner than you think.

All I hope personally is that MacOS doesn’t follow. But given the recent enshitification of all the Mac OSes from the last updates…

Show threadlyralycan6d ago
Seizure inducing? But my team assured me we could sell at least 80% of the user’s vision before inducing seizures!! (reference)
Ready Player One - Nolan Sorrento sells ads

I don't own the rights to any of this, but it's a small clip and representative of Ad sales these days

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Show threadtaiyang6d ago
The irony is I’m pretty sure Windows started getting dumber as it copied MacOS when it gained popularity, removing file extensions, making file systems harder to navigate, spending lots of resources on GUI effects, etc. I mean 11 even centered the start menu, c’mon!