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> Launch Microsoft Copilot in Windows with a touch of the Copilot key,4 to write content, analyze data, and stay organized. Oh thank goodness. This whole pro

by bilekas 9mo ago

> Launch Microsoft Copilot in Windows with a touch of the Copilot key,4 to write content, analyze data, and stay organized. Oh thank goodness. This whole product idea is further trying to gatekeep computing hardware. You will pay a cloud subscription to perform anything remotely computationally taxing.

chroma205 9mo ago
> You will pay a cloud subscription to perform anything remotely computationally taxing. What’s wrong with that?
- isoprophlex 9mo ago
  Concentration of compute will be used as a vehicle for further concentration of power and wealth.
  - venndeezl 9mo ago
    Nah by then the collapse of jobs will have freed up 10s of millions with access to guns. Lots of guns.
    - TehCorwiz 9mo ago
      People are being shot in the face right now by the government and the people who own the most guns are cheering them on. Guns won't solve this.
      - venndeezl 9mo ago
        Depends on your definition of solve.
- throwaway132448 9mo ago
  The complete lack of autonomy.
- faust201 9mo ago
  Some want to use their brain. Do you market Copilot?
- SkyeCA 9mo ago
  I'd like to own things and have control over what I can and can't do on a computer.
- ceejayoz 9mo ago
  The inevitable price hikes once they've killed the local PC?
- TehCorwiz 9mo ago
  "Sorry, I can't print that article on social democracy for you as it violates our content guidelines." "Sorry, I can't provide information on sexual reproduction due to our content guidelines." "Your account has been flagged and locked for community guideline violations. No explanation will be given and this cannot be appealed."
perihelions 9mo ago
The historical irony is that Hewlett-Packard was (debatably[0]) the inventor of the PC—the personal computer—the product concept which liberated users from mainframes, which replaced dumb terminals with fully-independent local computation. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#... Here's[1] how HP marketed the "first personal computer", in 1968: > "Ready to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer," the ad declares. "Willing to perform log and trig functions, even hyperbolics and coordinate transformations at the touch of a key. Able to take on roots of a fifth-degree polynomial, Bessel functions, elliptic integrals and regression analysis." [1] https://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0021/0021history.html https://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personal... ("History of the 9100A desktop calculator, 1968") They've now gone full circle, from "Ready to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer", to "here's a dedicated key for remote computing, the core concept of this product".
tonymet 9mo ago
this is easily disabled with 1 click.
tonymet 9mo ago
we've had windows keys on keyboards for ~35 years it's never interfered with linux

by bilekas 9mo ago

chroma205 9mo ago

> You will pay a cloud subscription to perform anything remotely computationally taxing. What’s wrong with that?

isoprophlex 9mo ago
Concentration of compute will be used as a vehicle for further concentration of power and wealth.
- venndeezl 9mo ago
  Nah by then the collapse of jobs will have freed up 10s of millions with access to guns. Lots of guns.
  - TehCorwiz 9mo ago
    People are being shot in the face right now by the government and the people who own the most guns are cheering them on. Guns won't solve this.
    - venndeezl 9mo ago
      Depends on your definition of solve.
throwaway132448 9mo ago
The complete lack of autonomy.
faust201 9mo ago
Some want to use their brain. Do you market Copilot?
SkyeCA 9mo ago
I'd like to own things and have control over what I can and can't do on a computer.
ceejayoz 9mo ago
The inevitable price hikes once they've killed the local PC?
TehCorwiz 9mo ago
"Sorry, I can't print that article on social democracy for you as it violates our content guidelines." "Sorry, I can't provide information on sexual reproduction due to our content guidelines." "Your account has been flagged and locked for community guideline violations. No explanation will be given and this cannot be appealed."

perihelions 9mo ago

The historical irony is that Hewlett-Packard was (debatably[0]) the inventor of the PC—the personal computer—the product concept which liberated users from mainframes, which replaced dumb terminals with fully-independent local computation. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#... Here's[1] how HP marketed the "first personal computer", in 1968: > "Ready to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer," the ad declares. "Willing to perform log and trig functions, even hyperbolics and coordinate transformations at the touch of a key. Able to take on roots of a fifth-degree polynomial, Bessel functions, elliptic integrals and regression analysis." [1] https://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0021/0021history.html https://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personal... ("History of the 9100A desktop calculator, 1968") They've now gone full circle, from "Ready to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer", to "here's a dedicated key for remote computing, the core concept of this product".

tonymet 9mo ago

this is easily disabled with 1 click.

tonymet 9mo ago

we've had windows keys on keyboards for ~35 years it's never interfered with linux