Soon to Require Adding a Copilot (AI) Key to the Keyboard 
- Nerds Whine 
Like Usual
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/ai-comes-for-your-pcs-keyboard-as-microsoft-adds-dedicated-copilot-key
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Lol this thing will age as well all those dedicated remote buttons for services like Pandora or Crackle.
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I HATE ROKU I HATE ROKU I HATE ROKU
I was forced to use one for the first time a week ago and it was like all of the negatives of a chromecast with none of the positives.
Current hyperfixation:
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Want me to throw a brick at their offices? I pass by it regularly.
The ENTIRE building is glass.
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Film yourself doing it and I'll give you at least 5 marseycoins
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I dunno if I film myself doing it realistically. Local cops park 2-5 patrol cars out front of it at night, and theres not enough hobos nearby to pay to do it because again the local cops cluster in front of it at night.
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They made dumb tv's into smart tv's. Might have been the drive to make smart tv's the standard.
For this, I hate them too.
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Same. Would've loved to save 50 bucks to buy a tv with less likeliness to break down and that my game consoles will turn into a smart tv anyways.
Try buying a "dumb" tv, they're so overpriced and sold almost exclusively to hotels these days
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A dumb TV will generally cost more. The "smart" features cost less than the company gains from ads/data/commissions surrounding the smart features.
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Yep, a smart TV is essentially subsidized by all that bullshit and prints money every day.
The dumb one makes them no money after initial sale, so they have price it higher to compensate.
Still, I'll take the take dumb one.
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I got my last 3 tvs from ebay for exactly this reason
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I like my garbage tier smart TV because I can load APKs on it and watch all my shit for free
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roku just works, unlike your "recompile the kernel to add a new service" rpi streaming box
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I don't have one of those either. Just a chromecast for streamslop and a 25' hdmi cable I can plug into my laptop for everything else. My TV is older than some users of this site but it's large, 720p, and somehow has HDCP support so I'm keeping it until it dies.
Current hyperfixation:
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Roku is shit. Amazon firesticks are great and you can install Kodi and Plex on them.
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Pretty certain Roku has a Plex app. I don't have one but I have multiple friends who do.
I have an NVidia Shield which just runs Android TV. I would have used the smart TV features but the integrated processor is so weak it can't properly decode high-bitrate 4k video (on a high-end 4k TV) so I needed to buy this other thing which has a far more capable processor in it.
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I just built a small PC for my TV for streaming and other shit, it works great.
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I tried that before, it's just not nearly as seamless as something designed explicitly to run a TV. It even had one of those weird remotes with a physical keyboard (small) and a tiny little trackpad to control the mouse. But again it sucks compared to something designed to be used from a dedicated remote.
Browsing the android TV version of Plex on my TV is a better experience than browsing the PC version of Plex on my TV.
Realistically I don't care about the ads and shit bc I never look at them. I remapped the "Netflix" button on my remote to open up Plex, and if I ever turn my TV on and it's not already on Plex, I press that one button and it launches. Maybe I see an ad for a split second but I really don't care that much.
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I run Kodi on the PC and control everything with an xbox x controller. If not using Kodi I have this little app from steam called "controller companion" running in the background and you can control all of win 10 using the same xbox controller. It's mint.
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Boomer
and/or poor apple 
user shit
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my Roku remote has a Blockbuster button
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Id love to flatten
a neighborhood 
with the press of one button 
while lounging around on the couch 
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I still use Pandora
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I love that remote and the little box it's connected to!
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Not meant for you. Simply a genius marketing strategy. Borderline art. Almost makes me tear up.
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Lmao I got a few of those laying
around. Switched to a different 
streaming stick 
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they became obsolete. I'm wondering what they do now?
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Or the bixby button on samsungs
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Ironically that's a much better analogy which has a Microsoft parallel: Cortana. Same shit, different decade.
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They can just replace the scroll lock key
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Oi, that has uses! Take the pause/break instead.
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I love the way corpos can't even wait for the AI revolution to actually start. Every single user needs a one-button spam generation workflow!
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Gotta
hop on the bandwagon before 
the other corpos!
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Of course not, there is no revolution, it's just hype. It was big data a decade ago, blockchain 5 years ago, AI now. Or if you prefer, 3D TVs, motion control gaming, voice assistants and smart homes. Did these die completely? Of course not. Did they become as ubiquitous as the smartphone, like we were told they would be? Also no, for obvious reasons: they're niche things, nothing more. So is AI.
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AI is going to have much more impact than 3D TVs. However, I agree that it's currently way over-hyped.
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But think of the shareholder PowerPoints, frick waiting for the product
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These neighbors really want me to learn how to use linux
I'm too much of a brainlet for that 
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Can some techcel give me a rundown on how to switch to the most basic r-slur-proof version of GNU/Linux? Must require no programming experience and take no more than a day to switch over
10k dc for the first full rundown
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pretty sure that happens automatically
in my experience most people coming from windows prefer KDE
ubuntu has a GUI updater for that nowadays.
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Tbf I almost never do graphic installs. I figured some steps weren't necessary but I'm not gonna check lol
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Like 1/3 of these steps are unnecessary. You recommended Debian/Ubuntu, not Slackware.
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All those steps and you didn't even install Swift support.
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Idk about Debian but sudo is installed by default on Ubuntu. Your initial account is privileged.
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On debian sudo isn't there, at least on server installs, you need to do su and shit as root
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Yeah I never used Debian
Always felt like worse Ubuntu to me.
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I used it for servers and it just werked, until I realized shit like vichan use old php dependencies only maintained and kept on some random dudes repo which he didn't update the specific version of to be compatible with it.
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Rundown:
Dont
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1. Obtain Chromebook
2. Run debian container
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BACK UP ALL DATA, YOU WILL LOSE ANY DATA ON THE DRIVE
Go to rufus, its a windows utility to make a bootable USB https://rufus.ie/en . Download the latest
Go to ubuntu desktop site https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop and download Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS . This means Long Term support, ie security updates until 2027.
plug in a USB stick to your computer and start rufus. Select the USB stick as the one to be used and the .iso you got from the ubuntu site.
Once its finished this is a bootable USB stick. Take it and put it into the PC you want to install linux onto. It may boot into the existing operating system, to solve this go to the biot (usually spamming f11 or delete as it starts up) and select "Use a device" or the name of your flashdrive / boot from flashdrive. It depends on manufacturer of your motherboard but generally you can figure it out.
Confirm any changes and it should restart and boot into linux. Just keep everything default, do it as a normal installation. Also click download third party software for graphics, this is for GPU.
The next box click erase disk and install ubuntu. This will clear all data and install it.
on the who are you just give whatever username you want, when choosing your password make sure you can remember it. Click continue and it'll begin installing and everything will be completed soon.
It will then restart and you will just enter the credentials you entered earlier and can now do whatever.
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At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. May God have mercy on your soul.
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https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
https://linuxmint.com
babies first distro
https://manjaro.org/download
babies first "real distro"
https://www.debian.org/download
your real first distro
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The fact that there are tiers of "distro" mean that it's far too much trouble for 99.5% of people.
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They're basically just different themes for your os. No different than changing the look on Windows. I don't think anyone would argue there's a functional difference between Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, etc
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arch/manjaro is pretty different from debian/ubuntu even for end users.
people coming from windows should just stick to ubuntu.
if they want to learn a bit how things work under the hood they should make a second partition where they can install (and re-install) arch and test stuff out. (or instead of arch they can do the same with gentoo. both have great documentation.)
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Wrong r-slur
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Windows XP > Windows 7 > Windows 10 > Windows 11 > Windows 8
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Just stick with ubuntu (I actually recommend the kubuntu version, because KDE looks better to most people and runs perfectly fine nowadays).
Manjaro is cool, but updating a rolling distribution after a couple months of non-use can turn into heck. e.g. arch recently renamed ~50 packages from [name] to [name]5 (e.g. kio to kio5), and my old, rarely used laptop got completely stuck updating that. AUR has more packages to offer, but a lot of it is difficult to build, and there's lots of interesting WIP stuff (on github etc) that isn't in the AUR and that's built on ubuntu and tested to build on ubuntu.
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Manjaro is decent if your a beginner but I'd say its more of a "learning experience" to install arch normally. It's good enough if you just need something decent for a weak desktop you plan to use for gaming. The little tower I used was from like 2017, had 12 gigs ram, no GPU and some intel with inbuilt graphics but it seemed to still run light minecraft shaders decently. Probably cause of less bloat idk I still have the board. I like the XFCE version, looks very nice and good performance.
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Unironically keep yourself safe
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Ubuntu? What is this 2010
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still the best for 99% of users
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https://www.kali.org
The REAL distro
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You can use linux on chromebook bro
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stg when the full rdrama dossier is leaked it'll turn out that google actually pays you for chromebook product placement
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I wish
Notice me google
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Eh, once it's setup it's just clickity-clik as usual. And setup is easy now, it's "next next next" all the way.
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Yeah most normie distros literally hold your hand through the install process
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Linux is for people who don't value their time. It'll be a lot less effort to get whatever MS shits out and neuter it through regedit than it would be to learn to use a completely new operating system day-to-day.
Remember: you are under no obligation to leave whatever you buy unaltered as-is. It's yours, take it apart, break it, fix it, alter it, hack it, until it does what you want, whether it's a toaster, a car, or a computer.
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I remember Samsung Galaxy models had that stupid 'Bixby' virtual assistant button that annoyed everyone and no-one used. I think it only lasted a year or so.
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They brought it back last year as a more obnoxious AI powered version I think. Luckily my button finally fell out.
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I hate this thing.
It's possible to remap the button to do something else but only if you make a Samsung account and agree to send them all your personal data. To remap the button.
I'm not gonna do it, but it would be pretty fetch if someone just literally massacred all executives at Samsung. Just like 9/11's their HQ or something. You couldn't say they don't deserve it.
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either people succumb to the ever so creeping tendrils or it's the fricking year of the Linux desktop babyyyyyy
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The average
desktop user doesn't care what's spoonfed to them by big tech.
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I have always said this, since I'm not a techcel, i always use the most barebone products
Sub $200 smartphone - only for messaging, using the internet to find out something i don't recall or understand at that moment, maps and occassionally music/YouTube
Sub $500 laptop - VLC, ms office, play some dumb games, torrenting
Sub $500 iPad - ebook and podcasts, reading emails at odd hours
I have a time limit for each of the products set at 3 years. So my yearly depreciation is $400. I can live by that.
Idc what update, what glitch comes up in that time limit, i ain't updating shit. It'll have the same factory update the day i return it to get a new one. Idc what new buttons they use to do what
I have 20Tb of storage space and all my passwords are kept written down by hand and kept around the house.
!r-slurs we should not let techlets fool us into making us believe we cannot live with or without a feature.
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correct, I use a $150 thinkpad with the Arch Linux version of Microsoft Windows, a shitty smartphone and nothing else
I drive an old V8 boomer car bcuz I always wanted one but also bcuz I can't tolerate the idea of a computer controlling my vehicle in any way
https://classicreload.com/win3x-skifree.html
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Are you trying to get hacked?
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LOL this dude doesn't even have a proper rig, gtfo scrub
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Won't effect me I'll never need any other keyboard than the Compaq mechanical one that I stole when my old job from the late 90s went bankrupt.
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Sweet, another meta key for my GNU/Linux shitstation. Thanks Nadella!
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Can't wait to bind this to my racist homegrown ai model anime gf
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W10 and W11 are the same darn OS. All the seethe about W11 just proves that most people bitching online are contrarian posers.
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Except they fricked up the taskbar in W11, which is like the only part of the OS that's visible most of the time and definitely the part people interact with the most. And they also removed any option to put it back the way it was.
I wound up buying StartAllBack or something like that to get a sane taskbar.
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Literally
a better 
reskin of Win10
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Honestly a lot of Microsoft's keyboard r-sluration changes things for the worse, for no reason whatsoever. Like how F1 is hardcoded to open up the microsoft help page in your web browser, no matter what, unless you simultaneously press the fn key. There's no purpose to it whatsoever, but they wanted to die more windows functionality to buttons to make it easier for r-slurs to use computers.
Yet another 'soft classic.
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I'm looking forward to AI putting a bunch of coder nerds on the unemployment lines.
It's worth seeing even if the new God King kills us all in the end.
Y'all shouldn't have been talkin' all that shit.
Shoeless kids in Africa can learn Python. Tell me how you're special again..
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yes hi hello look at my flair goodbye
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I use the copilot app and it's a little r-slurred compared to other shells but I like it
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Windows 11 got sneak installed on my computer and I'm kinda mad about it
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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I feel like the “old, grizzled always upset and sour Windows user” rings hollow when these people just end up buying the new thing anyway.
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Welp. Time to buy a backup keyboard for the next 2 decades.
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