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The AI agents are given read and write access to your personal folders. This is just straight up insane.
Linux’s marketing department.
The AI agents are running on Linux containers, so it really is a Linux marketing stunt.
“if you turn on the feature”… right. as if any of those toggles actually do anything but signal you have something to hide
thank fuck linux works for everything i need these days
don’t worry, they’ll happily turn it on for you!
This is going to be used to detect wrong-think in the very near future if not immediately and classify people for the upcoming purge. The government need only pass a law or send them a NSL with a gag order demanding data-sets on certain types of people based on AI classification of interests such as commie memes, lefty memes, atheist memes, anti-imperialist memes, etc.
I find the idea of Agent Workspace a bit similar to Windows Sandbox, but it’s not designed with security or privacy in mind, and it could be one of the ways to have fun with AI on Windows 11
Absolutely nothing in that sentence sounds like ‘fun’.
but it’s not designed with security or privacy in mind
Incoming: “by the (forced) use of this product you agree to give microsuck the rights to all your data, everything you create or store, every right to use your every action in training their AI and to sell to third parties. No you cannot disable this, fuck you my not valued customer.”
Taking jobs from hard working NSA agents.
everyone gets mad instead of just installing a different OS
I have one laptop, how do I even trouble shoot if I fuck it up.
Smartphone (if you have one), library, friends and/or family, local repair shop?
9 times out of 10 you’ll never fuck it up enough that booting from a USB isn’t possible. Have a copy of whatever Linux distro sitting on a pen drive and if things go really bad plug it in and use that to troubleshoot.
For booting from a usb I’d say it’s much more than 9 times out of 10. You have to really go out of your way to brick a computer to the point where you can’t boot from a usb
Not to try and harass you into using linux but if you’re worried about the installation going wrong you can just install linux on a separate partition so you can still boot to windows if you need to. Also it’s virtually impossible to mess things up so much that you can’t boot from a usb, and the typical way to install linux anyway is by flashing it onto a usb drive, booting from it, and then running the installer from there, so if something goes wrong you can just plug the usb back in and use that for troubleshooting
What does transitioning do to my files? Because I havent done any organizing in years.
Installing Linux to a partition typically involves reformatting it[1] which would erase any files on it. So if you go the dual boot route (where you shrink the windows partition and make a new partition for linux) then all your files would be fine and you could just mount the windows partition from linux and access those files like they’re on an external drive. If you go the other route and install linux to the entire drive you’re gonna have to find a way to back up your files, probably by just copying them to a usb drive or an sd card, and then copying them over to linux once it’s installed. I don’t know that much about windows, or your files for that matter, but I think that even if they’re unorganized they’d still all be in like Documents, Downloads, Desktop, and maybe Pictures or something like that? So you could just copy over those folders, or all the folders under your user, without worrying about organizing them, or if you have enough space you could just copy over your whole C:// drive or something like that. If you have one drive this might be a good use for it but I can’t can’t say for sure since I’ve never used it.
Alternatively you could install it like you would for a dual boot setup, mount the windows partition and copy over the files, and then delete the windows partition and resize the linux partition to cover the remaining space, but if you have a spare usb (in addition to the one you’d need for the linux installer) with enough capacity and you’re not already planning on dual booting windows I’d say go for that since it’s probably easier
not always, but a) that’s generally more of an advanced setup and b) if the partition is formatted with NTFS (the windows filesystem) you’re gonna want to reformat it anyway. I mean, I think it is theoretically possible to run linux off of NTFS but that’d be very cursed please don’t do that ↩︎
Luckily both my Windows machines went out a couple years ago. I replaced them with Macs. Would have been cheaper to replace the bad part and install Linux, but hey, I put my money where my mouth was.
Is it much better? Who knows. I always liked Macs though. Games was the reason I wasn’t running one. When AI drove GPU prices up, I jumped. Have been pretty happy. To be fair, I still have an Xbox for gaming. Which is still Microsoft. But my personal data isn’t really on it, it just knows how I game. If I could do it all over again though, I suppose I’d have stuck with PlayStation.
80% of Windows filesystems by volume are fanfiction smut, so this is going to be the funniest AI Winter yet.
That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg.
If this worries you and you want to go to windows 10 but still get security updates, go to massgrave.dev/windows10_eol and learn how to use the mas scripts to downgrade back to 10, switch to 10 iot ltsc 2021 and keep getting security updates till 2032.
Do it asap before ms closes off these possibilities.
this is somehow easier than using linux??
Yes.
I’d been putting this off, but it was fairly painless. No clean install was necessary, just follow the instructions faithfully. Took about under an hour including install and update time.
Oh, coming from windows 10 though. Don’t know if you can avoid a wipe downgrading.
You can do almost every wipeless version/edition/channel switch in any direction using the mas menu.
Iirc ltsc iot 2021 is one of the handful that needs you to dl a iso first.
Theres a lot to hate about windows but being able to say “now you’re a horsey!” and have it animorph into a horse ain’t one of em.
I believe I just read that MS pushed out an update that killed massgrave activations
No, it killed one particular method that wasn’t even recommended:
https://xcancel.com/massgravel/status/1989343678020857952
A lot of misinformation is spreading due to clickbait articles. For clarity:
- KMS and KMS38 are different.
- Microsoft had planned to remove the KMS license “migration” for a long time, not just to fight piracy.
- MAS has several methods, and KMS38 was never recommended.
Ah I see, thanks for the clarification.
Watch, they’re going to make signing in with Windows Hello mandatory. You’ll be forced to hand over your biometrics.
I moved to Linux just in time.
SteamOS Desktop can’t come soon enough.
Cachy or Bazzite will do in a pinch if I have to migrate away from Windows early, but hopefully I won’t have to move until I am ready to do so.
Just install any Linux on any desktop?
Not enough corporate treats apparently.
Imagine letting AI book your flight as Microsoft advertises… looks like you’re going to Portland, Maine because your agentic operating system is worthless. If you want to fix the flight have fun talking to the airline’s AI operator and pray for the best.
