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“You heard wrong” - users brutally reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11
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AI is going to destroy a lot of software companies in a way I haven't seen talked about yet: it will give CEOs exactly what they ask for.
Before you jump in with "AI produces garbage and isn't reliable by design," let me say I agree with you 100%, but for the sake of argument, assume for a moment it could produce a high quality product.
Once a company gets large enough, very often the CEO gets completely removed from how their company actually works. I know I've worked at several companies where the job of my boss was to shield me from corporate nonsense so I could make an actually good product. If I and/or my boss were replaced with AI that actually followed the corporate nonsense, the company would go belly-up quite quickly.
I think many CEOs are looking to replace huge fleets of workers with AI they can directly prompt. Even if it worked flawlessly, since they don't know how their products actually bring value to their customers, they will speed-run torpedoing their company's place in the market by their own ignorance, ego, and overconfidence.
Yup. Think we're going to go through a technological dark age for a bit, but hopefully non-shit companies will rise from the ashes. That or I'm gonna have to get used to FOSS everything.
The only real option
This is the way. I switched from w11 to Ubuntu recently (using it was like breathing fresh air after being in a traffic jam), and today I switched from excel to libre calc and my thought though was like, oh shit, almost every functionality I use regularly is just visible on the toolbars at the top. Neat.
In excel I usually have to fucking web search where functionality is.
I want to switch but everything is such a fucking fight on Linux. I've spent probably 5 hours trying to get an FPV radio to work and another 40 minutes just trying to install stepmania. Running into walls everywhere.
What distro you on? I tried mint a few years ago and constantly had major issues. It was untenable. I've found Ubuntu to be much more stable and forgiving. Linux certainly demands a little more technical knowledge from it's users but it definitely seems to be getting better year on year.
Trying bazzite because games. Problem is everything outside of steam is a struggle.
Ah fair dos, I've not actually tried much gaming on Linux myself. I did try and fail to play tarkov arena but maybe that was Ubuntu just protecting me lol
There will be mainstream adoption of Open Source Software but you're dreaming if you think it will remain free. Marketing alone to get the masses to adopt these options will have a cost that people will be paying for.
Free as in "Freedom". not free as in "Beer".
Not charging money for your product had NEVER been a requirement in open source. Most people just give out away and get their money from elsewhere because theoretically someone could just download the source code and compile it themselves.
But thats OSS. F(ree) / O(open) S(ource) S(oftware)
My gut tells me that you're being satirical. But just in case...
"Free" as in Freedom, not "Free" as in Beer means that you are free to view, use, modify and distribute the underlying source code within the guidelines of whichever Open Source license that software falls under. It in no way implies that it is "Free of Charge/No Cost"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software