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People want companies to stop trying to exploit them in every little way.

We can be satisfied by respecting us and treating us as customers, even when advertisers are throwing money at them.

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It’s not about the current state of their OS, it is about the corporate attitude to users.

Microsoft are treating users not as valued customers purchasing a product, but as a resource to be manipulated and sold off to the cheapest bidder.

They may have backflipped on actual ads in the Start Menu, purely due to user backlash, but they still have game/app/bullshit recommendations and reinstalled garbage, unless you are a windows sysadmin and know jo to use a Profile Editor.

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There are legitimate uses for vehicle telemetry being stored by the vehicle and uploaded to the manufacturer.

Identifying unexpected behaviour under certain driving conditions and being able to contact emergency services in an accident are two important examples. Remote diagnosis in the case of a breakdown is another.

None of these uses include selling the data to third parties or using the data to create a profile of the vehicle owner.

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There is a difference between destroying looms, corrupting LLMs by feeding bad data and causing an uprising like the Butlerian Jihad of Dune or the Second Renaissance of The Matrix.

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https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/9922439

WizardBeard has advised how to get rid of the nagging without any RegEdit or Profile Editing.

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Some people think that Google is trustworthy.
They still believe that the motto “Do No Evil” was ever relevant.

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Probably one of the most honest policy changes they’ve made.

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https://zirk.us/@colo_lee/112255086696380103

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Considering all the Bloatware that Microsoft has been pumping out lately (don’t get me started or Outlook), this may be a good excuse to get a Radeon Graphics Card.

If I can be guaranteed that installing this software will prevent having to deal with CoPilot, I would jump on that straight away.

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Please don’t call them AI. They are “Language Learning Models” (or “Spicy Autocorrect” if you want to be cheeky).

Copilot is no more “intelligent” than Clippy from Microsoft Bob in 1995. It just appears to be to people who also have low intelligence.

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‘Data Detectors’ in MacOS are just as bad. Just like how sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes a string of numerals is just a string of numerals.

It is not a phone number or a flight number or a ticket number, it is just a string of text that happen to all be numerals.

I asked Apple Support how to disable data detectors in Preview (MacOS’s native PDF and image viewer) so I could highlight some part numbers without MacOS trying to make a FaceTime call and they told me to use Adobe Acrobat instead! The problem is that Acrobat is worse.

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This is why they are doing it.
They fear that Linux/MacOS/ChromeOS is eating their lunch. The problem is that their approach to preventing anyone else from eating their lunch is to make Shit Sandwiches.

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Step one: start Chroming.
Eventually you get so high (kill enough brain cells) that you chrome with blue paint instead. That is called Edging.

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https://mastodon.social/@sdw/112203918268779518

Actually Indians.

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They all do.
Google search is one big primitive Digital Assistant.
Apple’s Siri is less functional than its predecessor Voice Control.
Amazon’s product recommendation algorithm and Alexa are also successful digital assistants.

Meanwhile the YouTube algorithm, Netflix, and Metas recommendations are notoriously frustrating, pumping out irrelevant recommendations and obfuscating constant that you actually want to consume.

Microsoft haven’t had any effective Digital Assistants to date and must they feel like they are being left behind. Their attempts to emulate successful product from other companies are either unnoticeably irrelevant or laughably bad. Even the terrible content recommendations of Netflix and YouTube keep people hooked.

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    We ArE sUiNg YoU uNdEr RoBbEr-BaRoN lAwS bEcAuSe YoU aRe ThE oNlY mAnUfAcTuReR wHo MaKe DeCeNt PhOnEs ThAt PeOpLe WaNt!!?!

    Sounds like someone is upset that they can’t get their citizen monitoring software on the majority of citizens phones.

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    In related news, the DoJ are suing Apple because car manufacturers can’t extract Tracking data out of people’s iPhones.

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    Dragging around a Ton of extra weight for no reason kinda defeats the purpose of going electric.
    Actually, dragging around the extra ton in the Broncos body kinda defeats the purpose of going electric too.

    Just catch a bus!

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    CarPlay access is also included in the Lawsuit.

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/21/24107976/apple-carplay-doj-lawsuit-anticompetitive-digital-key

    GM are discontinuing CarPlay integration because they couldn’t reach an agreement with Apple over user data.

    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/gm-confirms-its-dropping-apple-carplay-and-android-auto-from-2024-evs/

    GM have been busted selling OnStar data to insurance companies for money.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/technology/gm-onstar-driver-data.html

    Tracking individuals and selling their data is very lucrative and Automotive Manufacturers are trying to find income streams to subsidise EV sales.
    Apple and (to a lesser extent) Google have been protecting users data.

    Porsche recently allowed Android Auto on their CarPlay-compatible headunits after negotiating with Google over owners privacy concerns.

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    “Real drivers” prefer lightweight cars that are more responsive and can corner, take off and stop on a dime.

    Track racing, off-road racing and even Motorkhana and technical rock-crawling is more fun in a vehicle that is the bare minimum.

    The only reason any driver would want something with superfluous extra weight is in Monster Trucks for stability, and then only if they are a shit driver.

    Even Tractor pulls (where the object is to pull a heavy weight) need the right balance of power:weight and ballast to have sufficient traction to offset the dead weight of the load.

    Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? ( gadgettendency.com )

    With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

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    Because the hardware is being made obsolete for a reason. They are inefficient compared to modern hardware, consume way too much power and there are cheaper and more powerful options available.

    A modern ARM-based computer like the Raspberry Pi 5 can outperform most computers and laptops running Windows 10 and have a smaller environmental footprint.

    The problem is that the obsolete hardware is not cost effective to decommission and recycle. They have not been designed for an environmentally conscious world.

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    As plenty of other people have already said, if YouTube Premium went up by a pittance every month (boiling frog price increases) I would probably keep subscribing.
    The fact that they
    A) clamped down on AdBlockers
    and
    B) increased Premium rates
    is a major disappointment.

    Add to this that Patreon are introducing invasive User Agreements and it is getting more difficult to support Independent content creators.

    Platforms like Curiosity Stream are looking more and more appealing to those of us who want interesting content and don’t mind parting with a reasonable amount of cash to support creators.

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    I think that Lemmy does need more of the right exposure.

    If you search for any Lemmy content on Google or Duck-Duck-Go, you don’t get any good results. This is probably because most people use Apps or secure browsers that don’t allow tracking.

    Maybe Duck-Duck-Go need to have a !bang search modifier for Lemmy. duckduckgo.com/bangs

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