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Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees
- downrightmike 1y agoMore people need access to AI hardware for it to be viable. There is no critical mass. And a super expensive laptop is not going to get us there. Rather than force people into all new hardware, because they were greedy and that didn't work, Cheap $50 NPU cards need to start coming out with 100's of TOPS. Right now the only option is at least $1,000+ and that isn't going to fly.
- bogzz 1y agofor the laptops to do what?
- downrightmike 1y agoExactly, we won't have anything useful until the masses get to use it. Its like sound blaster or GPUs in the early days, you didn't need one, but once they became common, we got more software and use out of them.
- roscas 1y agoI need AI on my Windows notepad.exe. Also full AI on calc.exe and mostly my critical need is on my solitaire.exe.
- vincent-manis 1y agoI am very grateful to the Linux folks for including Copilot key support in recent kernels, that way you can remap the key to something useful.
- 1718627440 1y agoWhich key does it correspond to? Is it AltGr or the context menu? Or is it a truly novel key?
- vincent-manis 1y agoF23, in kernels 6.14 and later. You can use standard tools for your environment to bind that to whatever you like.
- 1718627440 1y agoSo the keyboards expose it as a separate key?
- vincent-manis 1y agoBy default, the key emits a hitherto unused scancode, 0x6E. Windows maps this to something like `Left Shift+Super+F23', and then allows the user to define a suitable shortcut. For reasons I don't understand, remapping this combo is unreliable in Linux. So the newer kernels emit a plain F23 code, which can be easily remapped. For an older keyboard with no Copilot key, this is all a non-issue. (There are relatively few keyboards nowadays with physical F13 thru F24 keys, though once upon a time they weren't uncommon, so F23 is a suitable choice here.)
- hulitu 1y agoThey are "empowering the future profits" of Microsoft.