Comments by "clray123" (@clray123) on "TechAltar" channel.

  1. Don't forget the mandatory M$ account, their great desire to control what software you are allowed to run on your own computer/device, and their helpfulness in "filtering" your cloud-stored files for "inappropriate" content (including automatic reports to Thought Police in the near future).
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  2. That has in fact been the only valid reason for Windows for the past 20 years.
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  3. I spoke not long ago to a CIO of a non-profit organisation full of old Microsoft crap. He reasoned about the upgrade to new Microsoft crap: "well, everybody is used to it, and Microsoft offers greats rebates for non-profits!"
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  4.  @Codyslx They understand it at a superficial, empirical level, in the sense that if you push that button, something happens. They also understand it at a low-level in the sense how you understand how chemical reactions work. However, there is a long way from understanding basic chemical reactions to, say, understanding how to create life through genetic engineering. This is the stage we are at now - just fumbling around without much real insight into what is going on inside of these models. In fact, the most important breakthrough for ChatGPT (the "instruction following") was a "discovery" and not an engineered feature. The experts fundamentally have no clue how it works, and there is an entire subfield ("interpretability") dedicated to improve this situation (without much progress). It is very different from classical engineering which is based on established science.
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  5. Your mistake is assuming that big companies build what "people" want.
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  6. How to save it? Wtf would anyone want to save Windoofs?
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  7. I set the Win11 crap up on an offline VM (required by a customer, sadly), and it can be done without Inet connection (and without any Windows key actually), but the "apps" menu (whatever that shit is supposed to be) is entirely empty and trying to phone home to download some icons or whatever. MySQL/Powershell can be installed though and works, which is happily all I need from this miracle OS in my use case. P.S. I should add that the disk emulation in this VM (VirtualBox) is working with the speed of a floppy drive (it used to work all right in Win7).
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  8. Microsoft inherited scumminess from its great (cough cough) founder.
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  9.  @Codyslx  AI won't die, but it's gonna disappoint. In reality it has been 8 years already since the "transfomers" paper and not much new has been invented since then, they just scaled up the same old crappy algorithms and noticed (to their surprise) that it seems to resemble "intelligence". But they do not really understand how it works and cannot even guarantee that it works correctly. This if anything is a blueprint for failure in any sort of engineering, and the problem seems to be inherent to the approach/complexity involved, so forget the fairy tales of great AI taking over in the next couple years. It's a big mess, with the big players frantically trying to cover up and also get at least some return on their gigantic investments until the house of card collapses.
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  10.  @cc0767  Yes, the reason why Microsoft is so wide-spread in business is because they make it very convenient and easy for cowardly business execs to make bad decisions. It's like "nobody's gonna blame me for installing Microsoft product, so why try anything else"? Plus bribes.
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  11. The CoPilot/GitHub thing is actually really worrying. They quietly conquered (well bribed their way into ownership of) the platform where all competing open source code is stored. Kinda like Google monopolizing video through YouTube to their dirty benefit.
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  12. Win11 has a lot of more evil stuff built in than just AI... the whole "trusted computing" disown-the-user shit... and the anti-privacy "service agreement" you need to "agree" with.
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  13. The AI runs server-side anyhow, it has crap to do with what operating system you have on the client.
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  14. They already had Clippy. Sadly, companies are still falling for M$ shit, using their cloud craps for their infrastructure.
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  15.  @BedanTV  Actually I do not need "Google Account" on my phone and I stay logged out of Google when browsing. The profile here on YouTube is a trash profile created specifically for this single application. More questions?
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  16.  @BedanTV Just taking care of privacy, and yes certain amount of saltiness results when you see bad scenarios predicted 20 years ago come into existence because of people's sheer stupidity.
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  17.  Yvng_remixer Apple is just as bad as Microsoft if not worse.
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  18.  @zoltrix7779 "yet"
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  19. Edging causes blue balls.
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  20. I've been free of windows and apples for 20 years now. How time flies...
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  21. Because of the philosophy that you don't own anything, Microsoft owns it and permits you to use it (if you pay all the license fees). Since it is not yours, you don't decide how it looks or behaves, you should be thankful they don't turn it off at random times (actually, they reserve the right to close your silly Microsoft account to do just that).
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  22.  @IrrationalDelusion  They don't need it to log, but they need it to associate your actions with your identity. Their vision is that you will have to swipe your id card or better yet biometric data through some scanner in the near future in order to log in to your, and by "your" I mean Microsoft's, computer, and by "computer" I mean cloud. They will cram it down your throat by telling you how you no longer need to remember any passwords. Just behave like Microsoft & friends tell you to or they will cut you off, that's already included in the fine print. (It also applies similarly to other "as a service" crap, but Microsoft is Excel-ling at it.)
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  23. Too bad the AI is dumb as a shoe when it comes to actual reasoning. It's just a fancy db retrieval system which falsifies stored information from time to time / quite often.
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