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Obligatory reminder that the newest version of O&O ShutUp helps you delete Copilot completely from your Windows installation if you have to use Windows.
I’m afraid it will break something on my work laptop if I were to use a tool like that. All my personal devices are Linux, just not the work laptop.
Yeah, I have a gaming-only laptop that is Windows for more powerhungry games, and a dual-boot for my general use laptop.
hey bro this image kinda smells AI Generated my man
Because it is
Help me out here whippersnapper, all I can see that is suspicious is the coffee cup and grey note next to it, but everything else looks clean
For me it’s the text (too regular and perfectly-ruled to be hand lettered, but too much variance between the letterforms to be a font) and the little AI artifact on the random doohickey directly under the bottom left corner of the AI computer monitor:
Aside from that, it’s just the weight of unmotivated choices. Why is the “good” side of the image grayscale while the “bad” side is in color (a human probably would’ve done it the other way)? Why are the desks drawn slightly differently while the person, chair, and computer are drawn the same (a human would’ve probably made everything identical to better illustrate their point)? Why all the random clutter on one but not the other (if the point was to make the AI computing experience look scattered and cluttered, surely they would’ve made it more overwhelmingly cluttered, but if it was for verisimilitude they’d have put clutter on both desks)? Also, subjectively, the “AI” logo on the screen suggests a pleasant experience, not an oppressive one.
An unmotivated choice on its own isn’t necessarily an AI calling card, but enough of them together alongside one or two smoking guns can definitely make the case pretty strongly.
It’s becuase they told the ai to make the right side simple so it simplified everything.
It’s not just ai slop, they also used sloppy prompts.
The desk and the colours too. Impressive prompt predicting from you, are you sure you’re not ai?
What an astute and flattering observation! You are good and smart.
I am 100% real. Trust me bro.
If you’d like I can provide a list of human organs I contain. Would you like me to do that now?
All good points, thanks for this
There are cables in the windows side but not the Linux side, which also seems like an odd choice for a human to make to me.
Agreed, good catch.
It’s the hands. not enough fingers.
Yes, who in the right mind would draw a popup window behind the screen and forget to write the green command prompt in the second line
I mean, fair, but this image is ai generated tho.
Source or it’s AI
Its obviously AI
Apart from my comment, here’s the tldr:
The outlines, the thought bubbles, the general senselessness of the meme and it not being tied to anything Linux users normally do, instead being based on stereotypical stuff regurgitated by most youtubers now
Also the Terminal on the left is just nonsense
Check out the daily slop of Eli the Computer guy, the thumbnails are all AI slop and generally you can really see the parallels once you look at those vs this image
The font stands out, too.
Also this in another post from the same guy.
Also the Terminal on the left is just nonsense
there is no terminal on the left?
On the right I mean. Specifically, an apt update neither upgrades the packages (only syncs the repo), nor should it magically change your shell to sh without giving you any output, except if you enabled the --silent option, which was not enabled in this case, and even then I’m pretty certain it would only cut out verbose output like the specific repos, but not the „synced repos. X packages can be upgraded” message.
right, makes sense
What this comic or meme isn’t showing:
Linux user spends every waking hour being a Torvalds Witness prophet, browbeating everyone and anyone into using Linux. While proclaiming about free choice
Hey, do you use Arch? I use Arch by the way!
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I had to chuckle in an exasperated way when I opened the Xbox app on my phone… and there’s a fucking Copilot tab in there as well.
I understand the use cases for AI, but Microsoft seems to be throwing the whole lot at the wall and seeing what sticks.
You’re the (working for free) tester now.
Hey, at least it’s not the (pay to be) tester that many AAA games give us now.
Let AI play the game for you so you can do chores around the house
Clearly the Linux user just broke their prompt by updating. Classic.
AI-generated comics be like:
The irony that the meme has multiple popups about AI being bad while the entire meme is AI-generated.
There are no such popups though. The issue on Windows is that Microsoft is pushing AI everywhere, whether you want it or not. But the OP allegedly used AI as a tool to generate this image when they wanted to.
I agree. Can’t quite put my finger on it… maybe the window behind the monitor? I try not to assume simply because of the style, but the lack of author credit makes it hard to check anyway.The weird thing is it wouldn’t at all be hard to draw by hand.
Edit: I like all the different answers. It feels like a new, unfortunate version of the “find the differences” game.
Check out the random items on the desk. They make no sense.
But yes, the biggest giveaway is those slightly blurry pop ups and that not-quite-comicsans font you see in all that slop.
It’s also the total failure of a punch line in the second frame. Just so robotic sounding.
I think it’s the speech bubbles
Left side. There is a thing next to the books and the handle of the coffee cup is wonky.
keyboard
It’s also the font on the pop-ups, and the AI logo.
There’s a very generic style of Facebook cartoon that these things absolutely nail.
ever since i switched linux i even get excited when i see a tzdata update.
AI slop + it doesn’t make much sense to begin with
It’s not the automatic Updates themselves making Windows bad lol
Totally agree.
And here OP proves perfectly how Windows Updates have done a ton of collective damage to security by being a terrible experience.
Software MUST be always updated.
but then it breaks or the design team needed to justify its salary again or…
Then the problem lies with the software. Not updating it is not a solution
despite Debian propaganda (/hj)
Moisturised. In my lane. …
GrapheneOS forcing updates by default :(
If you don’t want a secure OS, you can at any time just install Linaege
That’s not the point. There are many reasons why unattended updates could be a pain. Stop trying to dismiss things like Daniel Micay
Forcing updates is horrible regardless of the reason
You must be too young to remember the months out of date mess that was the typical Windows system back in the XP days. Forget “I don’t have the latest service pack” it was more “I am still vulnerable to a two year old “zero day”!”
I think a big reason for wanacy was also unpatched computers in corporate. Still it sucks that MS cannot be a good steward and chooses to keep a hostile attitude to its users in many regards.
I really love my switch to linux. It’s not all sunshine and roses, i have some weird things that i can’t really fix. Some problems are “too hard” for me to fix and i don’t care enough. After installing Linux right after windows to dual boot, it’s so fucking nice to not have your computer trying to sell you shit all the time, and you don’t have to jump through hoops just to get you shit working.
What has been too hard to fix?
My laziness
The biggest gripe for me is completely disabling MMB copy-paste functionality and instead enabling autoscroll everywhere. Couldn’t achieve this in CachyOS, except for the browsers and maybe a few Electron-based applications.
Holding MMB to scroll like a touch screen drag also breaks canvas panning on MMB in Krita, so I had to disable it.
Basically, MMB behavior in CachyOS is really unappealing to a Windows user, but it seems to be baked into the system.
I thought autoscroll needs to be supported by every single program separately. but I’m fairly sure you can disable MMB paste on KDE, so it should be possible for other DEs too
When my computer goes to sleep I no longer have audio when I resume using it. Unplugging and replugging my USB DAC is a workaround I’ve been using.
Yeah I’ve had similar problems. I use a usb/kvm switch to switch multiple laptops and desktops on a single monitor/keyboard/mouse. There should be a conf file somewhere that lets you set what gets switched when a usb gets plugged/unplugged or when the computer sleeps. I’m on my phone at the moment so I can’t easily look it up right now.
Let me know if you figure out where that is. Hopefully I can change that on Bazzite. Maybe I should consider hopping to base Fedora to avoid the atomic distro complications
Looks like this was a long time ago. I was using pulse audio on Ubuntu. Which I guess is ancient now. I had to edit /etc/pulse/default.pa And edit things like
load-module module-switch-on-connectwhich dealt with USB connect event handling.I don’t use bazzite, looks like that is a fedora based distro. Which I guess now uses pipewire/wireplumber. (And I guess ubuntu does too now?)
I would suggest googling something like “pipewire session.suspend-timeout-seconds”
You’ll find a bunch of similar issues:
This is for Mint, but I’m thinking this same “session.suspend-timeout-seconds” property is going to be what you are looking for.
It looks like setting that property to 0 might prevent suspend from stopping your audio.
If not, I think this gives you a pretty good idea of where to look for the config files:
/usr/share/wireplumberAnd from there, you can probably get a good idea of the various property names and what they do.
Why is the image 5MB?
AI slop
DOS user: updates? I can set the date in the BIOS if I need…
Lucky you had a motherboard with a CMOS battery. Without that*, you needed to enter the time and date every time the computer booted / rebooted.
* Or a capacitor instead.
It’s not just AI, but new android phones drive me spare.
You can’t disable that. You can’t uninstall that. You can’t make a backup of the whole phone. You can’t make a backup of one app and restore it to a different phone, unless you go through Google. We’re going to install these apps you don’t want, and there’s no way to cancel it.
And even if you want to install Android Android, not Google Android, you need to set up Google Android, agree to Google T&C to unlock your bootloader.
Universal Android Debloater.
It’s a community-rating systems for apps, and you can remove/permanently (even through os updates) disable them through ADB, without actually needing to know anything about ADB because uad comes in a nice GUI package.
I think I removed ~200 apps (most of them invisible, background ads stuff) from my phone. Much better experience.
And even simple things like the gallery is so bad, scanning your whole phone. I want the gallery yo show my photos, not my video collection or downloaded images.
I’m not rich, but if I could I’d jump ship with my xiaomi 13t.
check out the fossify gallery app. not on play store probably. it can ignore folders, or only look in some
Already got it ☺️ from F-Droid.
Pretty sure you can achieve the same with the standard gallery and other media apps by putting an empty file called
.nomediain the folders you want the apps to ignore. I’m using a third-party gallery app, but seems that the feature is widespread (likely because of the apps relying on Android’s own media scanning).Doesn’t work for me.
And to be honest, it feels like the whole “windows is usable you just have to…” do things all the time (then it gets removed from time to time, or changed or ignored)
Thanks for the tip though!
Just to check, did you put in the dot at the beginning of the file name? It’s the convention for hidden files in Unixes. Could just be that Xiaomi forgot to support this feature in their app, of course, and a third-party one would fix that, like the open-source Simple Gallery.
Anyway, I’d guess most people are fine with the gallery showing downloaded images — I know I need that to find the meme I want.
Yep I made it ‘hidden’ but it didn’t work. So maybe a Xiaomi thing for sure, and I already have the f-droid app so I’m good :-)
Get a refurbished pixel and put grapheneos on it. Best thing I could ever do.
Yeah I need a good camera, and I heard the pixel is good. I’ll look into that, I can probably keep an older xiaomi for my banking app with all the google crap on it…
Actually, don’t rule out that your banking app works on Grapheneos! Mine is not marked as supported in the wiki and works!
I don’t have contactless payments because gpay doesn’t work, but it’s not a big deal (and it can be solved if you use curve or if you buy a garmin smartwatch)
My Android phone app started to show me “suggestions” instead of the call history. Geez, thanks Google. Instead of calling my GF, imma call a proctologist.
And I just know this feature will soon be used to serve me even more ads. I mean, the play store is bad enough as it is.DeGoogle your phone.
Grapheneos ftw
Yeah, I need to figure out GSIs. Finding non-flagship phones with decent custom rom communities is getting harder.
