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We get Copilot at work. From what I can see the Copilot app is just the Copilot web interface in its own container and webview, though I've not gone poking at i

We get Copilot at work. From what I can see the Copilot app is just the Copilot web interface in its own container and webview, though I've not gone poking at it. Considering the web page in a browser can easily eat >5gb RAM just to display a single conversation (it's honestly mind boggling; how can something use 5gb of memory and a noticeable amount of CPU just to display relatively little and lightly formatted text?), having it self-contained makes killing it to reclaim memory easy. For those of you wanting to get more angry, the "menu key" on my new Thinkpad has the default action of Copilot and the Copilot logo printed on it. On the other hand, he Ctrl key is finally in the -r-i-g-h-t- left place at least...

dade_ 1y ago
Web app is faster, has more features, easier to use. Copilot key is useless, it took me a while to figure out how to get it to open the M365 app, instead of the corporate blocked personal one, and then I used it zero times. Never think to use it and I found it has no practical purpose, except Microsoft marketing.
- BuildTheRobots 1y ago
  Interesting. It prompted me to install the microsoft store version which, when launched manually is identical to the web version. As the keyboard key brought up a web window telling me to install it, I assumed it just launched that.
0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago
Brother, I feel you on the thinkpad Ctrl key. I cannot understand how someone thought that was an acceptable idea.
- SSLy 1y ago
  at least it has forever been swappable with fn
  - BuildTheRobots 1y ago
    Not just swappable, but in a lot of corporate laptops with a locked down CMOS, the swappability is still one of the shortcuts that a user level user can change in the BIOS. I thought Ctrl being in the right place on the new keyboard would be nice - sadly it seems to be the worst Thinkpad keyboard I've ever used... not even sure why, but all the spacing just seems slightly but very noticeably wrong.

dade_ 1y ago

Web app is faster, has more features, easier to use. Copilot key is useless, it took me a while to figure out how to get it to open the M365 app, instead of the corporate blocked personal one, and then I used it zero times. Never think to use it and I found it has no practical purpose, except Microsoft marketing.

BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Interesting. It prompted me to install the microsoft store version which, when launched manually is identical to the web version. As the keyboard key brought up a web window telling me to install it, I assumed it just launched that.

0cf8612b2e1e 1y ago

Brother, I feel you on the thinkpad Ctrl key. I cannot understand how someone thought that was an acceptable idea.

SSLy 1y ago
at least it has forever been swappable with fn
- BuildTheRobots 1y ago
  Not just swappable, but in a lot of corporate laptops with a locked down CMOS, the swappability is still one of the shortcuts that a user level user can change in the BIOS. I thought Ctrl being in the right place on the new keyboard would be nice - sadly it seems to be the worst Thinkpad keyboard I've ever used... not even sure why, but all the spacing just seems slightly but very noticeably wrong.