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Lock-in works well for apple. So they of course follow suit.
Wed Nov 15 2023 13:59:11 EST from IGnatius T Foobar
So it looks like "copilot" is the next thing M$ is going to force on Windoze users whether they want it or not.
It's already non-removable from their Edge browser, and they're working on making it non-removable from Windows 11.
This comes after a long line of such behavior, of course. Windows 98 + Internet Explorer, Windows 8 + the "Windows Phone" UI, Windows 10 + Cortana, etc. etc. etc.
So they're back to their bad old habits. Fuck you, Microsoft. Die in an AI fire.
Looks like that dickhead Altman is going to end up at Microsoft. I figured either that or Musk would hire him. Feathers of a color....
What id have preferred is no one would touch him, he would try again, and go bankrupt, and black listed from the industry.
They made it clear that their bigoted AI was going to become the next thing they forced on users throughout the operating system and other software. Ironically, the relief seems to be on its way from an unlikely source: the European Union.
[ https://tinyurl.com/edge-sucks ]
They have to comply with the "Digital Markets Act". Coming soon, if you can convince Windows that you are in the European Economic Area, they have to allow you to uninstall Camera, Cortana, Web Search from Microsoft Bing, Microsoft Edge, and Photos. Furthermore, Microsoft's own bloatware has to be clearly labeled as "system apps".
I stopped using Edge recently because it's just too damn obnoxious with the other stuff it tries to force on you. I spent about a day and a half on Firefox before deciding that its inability to bypass TLS warnings was keeping me from accessing a bunch of internal web sites. Since our security department doesn't allow us to run Brave (since it has a Tor browser built in), I ended up going back to Chrome. Ugh.
Ya edge is worse than chrome for that stuff. But there is one issue we have that makes us stick with it at the office. My app, if you have large images embedded, Chrome freezes. Edge does not. its weird. Same engine, I would think it would act the same.
I saw that too about the uninstall mandate, my first thought was yay, but after the initial glee, I suspect there will be 2 versions of windows. one for UK, where you can remove, one for US, where you cant. They have had more than one regional version before so there is a precedent.
( of course only reason i have windows is for work, where i cant do much with it, so its sort of academic to me personally. just was nice to see. )
What about base chromium?
Mon Nov 20 2023 09:25:38 EST from IGnatius T Foobarended up going back to Chrome. Ugh.
donno. i just sudo apt update... and if there is one it grabs it too.
I cant say on windows..
Mon Nov 20 2023 16:42:00 EST from IGnatius T FoobarIs there a self-updating Windows build of Chromium?
Looking around it seems no, the base, have to use something like Brave, which you cant.
But ran across a script that does it in the background, could run int as a daily scheduled task or something im sure . -> https://github.com/mkorthof/chrupd
Mon Nov 20 2023 16:42:00 EST from IGnatius T FoobarIs there a self-updating Windows build of Chromium?