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      Didn’t they proudly say how much of windows is AI generated slop code a few months ago?

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      It looks like finally after almost ten years they will complete the dark mode on windows. But some buttons will still be with the light theme, they ran out of ai credits and need to wait for next month to replenish the free tier

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    The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.

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        Maybe ? I know R/W speeds used to be a lot slower in Windows than Linux but I thought they fixed that a few years ago.

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          That’s mostly related to Windows Defender intercepting reads and writes and hasn’t truly been fixed.

          Sometimes it’s literally faster to read a database using WSL than the native system.

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      Agile has been a mistake for the software industry. It did nothing except to give executive more avenue to force changes to the software that are being developed and in the end it’ll take a longer time to have production ready software when compared to traditional waterfall approach.

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        It depends on the use case. For incremental changes and validation of hypotheses in an uncertain or new product Agile is great. It allows for fast valuation and fast pivoting. I would not recommend Agile for systems that are mostly known and need a big upgrade, that’s not what its for.

        Agile became a buzzword and shouldn’t have been implemented as widespread as it has. It does have its use cases though.

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    “We looked around and could not find other reports resembling such situations. The problem has been reported by a Japanese PC builder and enthusiast and some of the comments on the thread seem to indicate that others there may be experiencing similar issues. So it could be a region-specific thing too”

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    Butbutbutbut Linux is not ready for desktop! I asked a stupid question in an Arch forum and they told me to RTFM! It does not support kernel level anti-cheat! Terminals are scary!

    Etc, etc.

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    of file corruption when symptoms occurs" adds the report (Translated from Japanese by Grok AI).

    Why would you use an LLM to translate text? There are tools made specifically for that

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      Which are based on LLMs or other neural network models. It is kind of the thing that language models are actually good at.

      See DeepL for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator

      The service uses a proprietary algorithm with convolutional neural networks (CNNs)[3] that have been trained with the Linguee database.[4][5]
      According to the developers, the service uses a newer improved architecture of neural networks, which results in a more natural sound of translations than by competing services.
      The translation is said to be generated using a supercomputer that reaches 5.1 petaflops and is operated in Iceland with hydropower.[6][7]
      In general, CNNs are slightly more suitable for long coherent word sequences, but they have so far not been used by the competition because of their weaknesses compared to recurrent neural networks.
      The weaknesses of DeepL are compensated for by supplemental techniques, some of which are publicly known.

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        Yeah I know they’re based on LLMs, but they’re more adapted to translation, right?

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        As someone who’s played a few LLM translated games, it is in fact not good at it. There’s a lot of contextual hints that get lost and slang terms tend to confuse it. It does make it close enough where a human that doesn’t speak/read the original language could easily finish the translation though or still make it through the game.

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      Honestly, translations are one of the few things LLMs are good for. It can catch things like idioms or other things a machine translator may mistranslate. Though tbf, the main appeal is still live translation.

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    Yet again, I trot out this phrase, as a response to yet another massive Windows fuckup/scandal:

    … People are still using Windows?

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      Yet again - headline and article are massive overexaggerations, talking about an issue that a few people have had in very specific situations and saying it breaks everyones SSDs/HDDs and might corrupt their data to get people like you to get outraged and spread FUD.

      Remember - if even 0.01% of people on Windows 11 get an error with an update, that is like 100k people. A 0.01% error rate is nothing. It’s not even worth mentioning. It’s not even worth investigating. Sure it sucks for those 100k people, and they’ll be complaining to everyone that will listen - but it’s not a big issue. That’s this. That’s this exact thing.

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        Wow, with a mentality like that, you’re a perfect fit for medical school.

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          And you’re a perfect fit for an arts degree with how dumb that equivalency is.

          We’re talking about software updates here, not saving lives.

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              Doctors try to save everyone, even the 0.01%. Hell, the 0.01% are actually a huge focus.

              In software a 0.01% affecting bug in a single one-off update, that needs very specific exact steps to happen, that is already released is at the bottom of the backlog, never to get fixed.

              It’s you that clearly doesn’t get “it”. What is your software development background?

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                Doctors try to save everyone, even the 0.01%. Hell, the 0.01% are actually a huge focu**s.

                BULLSHIT

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                  I am all ears as to your logic here lol. Can’t wait to hear this wonderful tale. Please, do tell.

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        Meh - people are creatures of habit. To quote a family member “I’m too old to learn a new operating system!” Any change, even over to Mac OS, is rejected by most Windows users. Even when 99.9% of what they do is in a web browser.

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          Every time I try switching to Linux I run into some issue I just cant fix and go back to windows, currently pirated win10 IOT LTSC. Last time it was getting the USB ports to recognize an ESP32, the time before that graphics card drivers, the time before that it would either take ages to boot or not boot at all, the time before that software I couldnt get to run.

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            Lies! Linux never has issues!

            My laptop’s Linux install currently isn’t corrupt and won’t boot, honest!

            Disclaimer: I actually like Linux a lot, JFC the windows hate is crazy…

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            Maybe try another distro? Mint 22.1 works just fine right out of the box, and at this point Claude provides actual support better than scouring 3 forums in case you need small tweaks. Other than some proprietary fingerprint reader I never use, every machine I’ve used it on has been fine.

            You can just do a live install from USB and test it before even installing.

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              I don’t bother testing using live boot anymore, often hardware will work on the live image but not work after it’s installed.

              Needing to try random distros is part of my frustration with Linux, I just want one that works out of the box.

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                OK, well what I’m trying to tell you is that unless you have some exotic hardware, Mint has the reputation of working right out of the box. Not great for gaming, so if that’s a deal breaker, then that’s it.

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                  unless you have some exotic hardware

                  Or very recent hardware. 22 is based on Ubuntu 24.04, which shipped with version 6.8 of the kernel which is from March 2024. That excludes all of Nvidia’s 50 series, AMDs RX 9000 series, AMDs 9000 series CPUs/boards, Intel’s Core 200 series/chipsets, Arc B series GPUs.

                  Sure your 5090 might boot and display a picture, but that thing aint gonna work right.

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      many have to - work from home, have to share data and programs with other workers. There are of course ways around it but I know literally thousands of people who are supplied with a company laptop with windows on it and they have to use it…

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        Huh, sounds to me like bad security and data integrity policies/practices from whatever company, probably not very well run places to work for.

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          You realise that most companies still run on Windows don’t you? I’m in the UK and there is around zero companies that use anything else… here they got rid of Macs because of the hassle of supporting them and windows. Plenty of companies won’t let you use a Mac to work with either

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            Yep I do realize that.

            And I still have the same opinion.

            You’re in the UK, so you’re not bound by GDPR… but a whole lot of places and orgs that are bound by GDPR realize that MSFT products indeed are a joke from a data security standpoint, and are actively transitioning to linux or at the very least FOSS software.

            I am in the US.

            I literally used to work for MSFT, a few of their different locations around Seattle.

            They are a fucking insane mess, internally, organizationally.

            I worked with people, old timers who’d just casually tell me:

            ‘Oh yeah back before Desert Storm, I was out in Saudi Arabia flashing the BIOS of computer hardware that was bound to be installed in Saddam’s C&C and Air Defense Radar networks, some months later when time came for the air sorties, somebody else just flipped a switch and down goes all their radars!’

            Aka a supply chain attack.

            Aka, unless your definition of ‘data security’ is ‘the NSA has all my data’, then MSFT products are rather dubious at providing data security.

            Like uh, did your org completely remove Copilot?

            … Are you sure about that?

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              For starters in the UK we ARE bound by GDPR…
              But it doesn’t matter - you are assuming that companies care in the UK, they don’t. You get Windows or Windows. As said a lot of software only runs on Windows, and this will continue until microsoft stop windows, corps don’t care. Here in the UK Macs are rare, really really rare, in business. Heck in general use they are rare compared to Windows. Linux is nowhere, under 0.1%. You are literally forced to use Windows if you work for a company. My wife works for a charity and she has to use the company laptop, through the company VPN or else she gets warning and can be sacked… it really is that simple. The company controls what software is installed, even what updates are installed. Here in the UK the NHS buys around 5 million windows machines a year… just imagine that

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                Well technically its not the same GDPR, but w/e.

                Point is:

                Much of what MSFT does isn’t GDPR compliant, or violates other data security and privacy laws in the EU or elsewhere, or just generally throws privacy and security by the wayside, as a matter of course.

                https://www.crowell.com/en/insights/client-alerts/cloud-gdpr-risks-highlighted-by-european-commission-ruling-over-microsoft-365-use

                https://ppc.land/irish-court-approves-first-class-action-against-microsoft-rtb-data-breach/

                https://www.gadgetreview.com/microsofts-recall-fails-to-protect-sensitive-data

                https://www.courthousenews.com/microsoft-must-face-privacy-class-action-over-kaiser-website-data/

                This is just a teeny weeny sampling.

                If you think MSFT gives a shit about actual data security and privacy, you’re not following the just stream of lawsuits they just keep getting into, revolving around these issues.

                Yeah if that means 99% of orgs have bad policy, by relying on a company with a terrible record on all this, the, uh then uh yeah, 99% of orgs are choosing to have the ability to blame someone else for their own bad decisions, over making better decisions.

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                  The point is arguing about something when you plainly don’t understand how the UK still has GDPR doesn’t really validate your opinions in any way shape or form…
                  The security doesn’t matter, nothing other than Windows is used. To move to something else would cost so much that businesses simply cannot sustain that. We now have workers who have had 30 years of only working with Windows… and new workers only get Windows. Doesn’t matter what you or anybody else thinks, or says, it matters little. It is pretty much set in stone that you need Windows and Office in the UK, plus other software to make things like PDF’s and documents. You can point anyone towards anything and it just doesn’t matter… and here in the UK they don’t care about lawsuits, we don’t sue first and ask questions later - our legal system is just not setup that way. It is so difficult for other countries to understand, but that kind of approach just doesn’t happen, and our legal system takes little notice of legal issues in countries like the US.

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      I use “incontrol” to stop feature updates. And I used win11debloat. Havent had a problem since. In dogshit bloat, no dog shit copilot, no forced updates, no privacy destroying telemetry. Just me and MY windows machine like the old days.

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          Thank god Ive got control of those too, huh? I offered you all a nice little short cut to make your lives a little easier. And instead, you all moan. Jesus christ.

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        And I’m sure you’ll blame Microsoft/windows when things don’t work as expected and you get strange errors because you disabled core features using dodgy software that you don’t understand but think you don’t need them.

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          lol Another Reddit user, with nothing to offer but projection. Being in the game 20+ years, matey. If theres problems, I have skills to solve them. Just because you dont know your arse from your elbow, doesnt mean everyone else is the same. Go cry about MS’s spyware some place else.

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            🤣 literally everything you said is wrong but good try I guess. Only 20+ years? Amateur.

            You’re the one crying about their “spyware”, not me. How do you not see that?

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              Im not crying about it, as I dont have any of it. Youre the one crying, and shilling, and painting anyone who doesnt bend the knee to them is going to cry without all those amazing core features… Absolute reddit moment.

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      I love my 13". Does exactly what I need. I kind of want the 12", but I don’t really need it. So i’m going to hold off.

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    I switched to Mac after my old Asus laptop went out. I figure why bother with a PC laptop, it’s not gonna game and let’s see what the fuss is about. Love my MacBook Air. So then our desktop dies and I give my wife 3 options. A Mac, a cheaper PC, and a more expensive PC. She’s Android, figured she’d want to stick with Windows, but she picked the Mac! So happy. I mostly game on Switch and Xbox these days so that’s fine.

    I keep feeling like I left Windows at the right time.

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      Being happy for someone switching to mac and being on lemmy where everyone is on the Linux train, was not on my bingo card.

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        Thanks I guess? Surely Mac and Linux users can be friends or at least allies against Windows. Linux comes from UNIX which macOS is based on so they’re very similar, only one is FOSS — which I suppose is the point — and the other is not. But another commonality — Macs and PCs can both run Linux.

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        How does Apple’s profitability being a little less than it used to be (they’re still insanely profitable) imply that it’s a “sinking ship”?

        I’m a Linux user as well, but use macOS at work and it’s fine.

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          Did you watch the video or are you guessing based on the thumbnail? Because the video isn’t about Apples profitability.

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            I watched the first minute or so, which was about their stock price relative to Microsoft. Profitability is a huge part of a company’s stock price.

            I didn’t watch the rest because I’m not going to watch a 30 min video without a good reason to.

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              TL;DR: Under Jobs, Apple focused on engineering products and the profitability and stock price followed. Under Cook, Apple focuses on stock price (dividends, stock buybacks) and is massively cutting R&D/Engineering costs to the point they did not release anything really new for years and their projects keep failing while also increasing prices. E.g. Siri that is unable to catch up to modern chatbots.

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                Sure, that’s an argument for why the stock price is suffering, not for why macOS is in danger. Apple is still massively profitable, the stock price just reflects the market’s perception that profits won’t increase as fast as their competitors.

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                  Again, why are you so over focused on stock price? As a consumer, how is the first thing you take away from lack of innovation and engineering failures that Apples stock price may suffer and not that the machine you are buying may be sub-par and overpriced?

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    Bah, each time I want to do the manual upgrade from 23h2 I have to postpone it again due to some stupid bug or annoying feature that makes me reconsider doing it.