Ahh Windows.

Why can't it just run my programs. Why does it insist on being my friend, my buddy, talking to me with the personification language... halfassed updates, hidden tasks, bloatware, gigabytes of crap that cannot be disabled or deleted and a convoluted solution to DLL hell.

But... it did give me a career for many years, a valuable skillset in being able to land even the most basic tech job "anywhere". That skillset put food on the table and supported myself and my Mac-loving kid comfortably. Not rich with a big house in the suburbs but not poor or paycheck-to-paycheck.

I know its never too late to jump on the Linux path and of course there are friends and MANY Sysops here and on Fido with good careers, but for me there are certain aspects to my career which "require" Windows... Teams and Office specifically, along with supporting Activve directory and Exchange.

I guess it would just be nice if Windows just went back to being a basic OS again that just runs my freaking programs and doesn't try to be my friend.

I am really not happy with the direction Microsoft is going especially with this AI nonsense.

End of rant.

Nick

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I am really not happy with the direction Microsoft is going especially with this AI nonsense.

I am not real certain I am happy with the direction that any AI companies
are going with that nonsense. I fear they may be letting something out of Pandora's Box that was supposed to stay put.

Mike


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On 12 Jul 23 17:19:00, Mike Powell said the following to Nick Andre:

I am not real certain I am happy with the direction that any AI companies are going with that nonsense. I fear they may be letting something out of Pandora's Box that was supposed to stay put.

Me neither. Its development and really not being "true" AI as I know it.

Nick

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I am not real certain I am happy with the direction that any AI companies are going with that nonsense. I fear they may be letting something out

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Pandora's Box that was supposed to stay put.

Me neither. Its development and really not being "true" AI as I know it.

Like containing the political leanings of its creators?

Mike


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Hello Mike,

Thursday July 13 2023 15:22, you wrote to NICK ANDRE:

Like containing the political leanings of its creators?

Like ChatGPT?

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Hello Sean Dennis!

** On Thursday 13.07.23 - 17:17, Sean Dennis wrote to Mike Powell:

Hello Mike,

Thursday July 13 2023 15:22, you wrote to NICK ANDRE:

Like containing the political leanings of its creators?

Like ChatGPT?

A recommended read:

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think
the Way We Do | Paperback

Erik J Larson

Belknap Press | Belknap Pr

Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects / Computers / Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language
Processing / History

Published Oct 11, 2022

ISBN: 9780674278660

https://bookshop.org/a/93260/9780674278660



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Like containing the political leanings of its creators?

Like ChatGPT?

Yep, that is one that does for sure.

Mike


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Nick Andre wrote to All <=-

Why can't it just run my programs. Why does it insist on being my
friend, my buddy, talking to me with the personification language... halfassed updates, hidden tasks, bloatware, gigabytes of crap that
cannot be disabled or deleted and a convoluted solution to DLL hell.

That's why I loved running TinyXP for so long. Windows XP with
everything possible stripped out. It was not much more than a OS with a
GUI, a CLI and a network stack. Need a browser? Install one. Firewall?
Install one. (Remember when we tried plugging our PCs directly into our
DSL modems and ran software firewalls?)

Without any installed cruft, I hoped it had less of an attack surface. I
never got hacked with it, so there's that.

I guess it would just be nice if Windows just went back to being a
basic OS again that just runs my freaking programs and doesn't try to
be my friend.

Or require a Microsoft account to do anything. Or remind me to use
Edge. Or ignore my preferences and load Edge, anyway.


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