MudMan

sigh

Well, I didn’t know about the specifics, but that kinda tracks, sadly.

So nothing good can come from this.

Why?

Donald Trump.

How does that follow? Again I ask, you are aware that the US government has more than one person in it, right?

As far as I can tell it’s turned off by default. It has a sleep mode, but in my PC it still draws too much power to leave it in that state indefinitely. Windows Hibernate is surprisingly good in my setup, and it allows me to start a session on Windows, go to sleep, boot into Bazzite, then switch to Windows and pick up where I left off.

It’d be great to be able to bounce back and forth, but… yep, Hibernation not working for me. I’m sure troubleshooting can figure it out, but I don’t have the time or energy at this point.

Look, I don’t think anybody has an obligation towards constructive optimism.

I do ask that those who don’t at least take care to not be destructive in their pessimism, or at least not to let those who are deliberately destructive to get in a position where they can be more destructive out of being despondent.

That’s the thing, right? It may not be your turn to make things better, but if you are mmindful in how you get out of the way somebody else may take things to the place where you can be. The part that worries me is how many people in that same spiral end up doing nothing when they get the chance, or so mad that they just want to tear things down without caring about what gets put in their place.

Sure, but “bunch” is the operative word here. People in government don’t agree with each other, kinda by design.

In this particular case this is a thing any one member of Congress can do unilaterally and a democrat senator from California just decided to do it. That particular fucking loser probably doesn’t agree with a bunch of the other fucking losers on a bunch of stuff, including this one.

How so? As far as I can tell all this means is they’re added to a list of official places storing public documents. Beyond the slight bragging rights, slightly increased sense of legitimacy in upcoming lawsuits and… I guess the server costs? this seems pretty neutral. I don’t even think you need the official designation to actually store the documents in question.

You… know the US government isn’t a person, right?

I’m sure the features do exist, but there’s a big mix of people being semi-disingenuously mad at features you toggle off on install and never think about again, features in preview buids and features that don’t quite do what people say they do.

That’s not to say I wouldn’t prefer many of those to… you know, not exist, but it’s also true that my copilot button does nothing (that’s a lie, it brings up the start menu), I don’t have Recall, there are no ads in my Start menu and the extent of my interaction with “Click-to-do” was accidentally stumbling upon the shortcut, turning it off and never thinking about it again.

I shudder to think how much development time Microsoft dumps into things that work that way for all of their tech-savvy users and only exist as gimmicks and adware for normies. It’s a dumb, dumb way to make software, but it’s much more manageable than some corners of the internet say it is, be it due to the ragebait economy or just how weirdly partisan and irrational the Linux rah-rah gets.

As a long term dual-booter the whole thing seems kinda dumb to me on all sides for different reasons. I’m mostly just annoyed that I can’t get Bazzite to hibernate properly and that I have to keep paying people to make my Windows taskbar float on the side of the screen like KDE does by default. And nobody is fixing either anytime soon because everybody is too busy being rich or smart or whatever other useless thing people like to be on the Internet.

It’s a very stupid century.

Well, if noone cares, then your issue maybe just isn’t that important.

I don’t think that’s the case, but we have to account for the possibility that your priorities just aren’t particularly good priorities that other people care about.

I say I don’t think that’s the case because plenty of people do care about some of this stuff at least to some degree, or at least agree with it when asked.

People tend to be very down on the system or on politicians or on the ability or willingness to do anything in the common interest, and that’s mostly part of the liberal lie as well. There’s plenty to be done and plenty of people willing to do it. Those people need the power to do it, though. Sure, getting those people to where they need to be is hard, particularly with leftie types who will immediately get discouraged the moment their politicians aren’t paragons of justice with a magic wand to fix every issue, but that’s not the same as saying nobody cares.

I’d much rather have people get motivated than discouraged, and I don’t need to win every fight, especially not right away. It’d rather move in the right direction than pout about it, even if the short term practical outcome is the same.

To be fair, this is not Recall, as per the article:

While the screen snooping only happens when the user expressly activates it as part of a Copilot session, unlike Recall, which is constantly active in the background when enabled, it’s also designed to be more proactive than previous releases.

So… it’s Google Lens?

I don’t know, man, people keep telling me about all these Microsoft features and none of them ever show up on my devices. I think technically the next time I reboot my PC on Windows I’ll have the black blue screens of death, but I’ll believe it when I see it.

Also relevant:

At the time of writing, Microsoft was only offering Copilot Vision in the US, with the promise (or threat) that it will be coming to very specifically “non-European countries” soon – a tip of the hat, it seems, to the European Union’s AI Act.

I can see that for a security role… maybe. It would have been a massive waste of time and money for what we were doing, though. Plus, this was during the good old times when people weren’t being fired left and right. If anything it was hard to find people with the right qualifications that were still available. People in the field were getting hired directly out of school. If you could pass the tests, do the job and not act like a psychopath during interviews there were very few things that would have disqualified you.

I’ll also say that I’m pretty sure some of what you describe would have been illegal over here, at least for most jobs.

I have hired dozens, maybe hundreds of people in corpo jobs. I can’t vouch for any other employer, but I’ve never called anybody for anything. We had tests to verify skills and the CV was mostly a tool to know what steps to cover during an interview.

I can confirm that I didn’t care about the summer you spent flipping burgers for the much more specific, entirely unrelated jobs I hired for. It mostly only let me know it was probably somebody young and relatively inexperienced padding things out.

But then, we were hiring for a very specific type of industry and… well, we weren’t assholes. I have to imagine this sort of CV micromanagement is a thing somewhere or there wouldn’t be a cottage industry around this nonsense.

See, that’s not how pronouns work. You keep getting the concept of language wrong. It impacts suspension of disbelief, man, it’s just sloppy.

Welcome to the past three hundred years of labor movements, friend. It sucks in here, but it sure is better than the alternative.

I’ll say that your proposed alternatives have all the soul crushing artificiality of a customer service call center. I would much rather say nothing at all. I’m not anybody’s parent or marketing representative.

I can tell you what I do for each of those things if you want to hear it, but I won’t pitch somebody else’s product at you and I sure as hell won’t take your pitch unless I asked for it. I find people who try to sell you stuff on the street obnoxious and I’m not gonna do that same thing online.

That’s my exact question, actually.

That is not a sentence.

I mean, I know what you’re saying because… you know, but if we’re going to do this dick measuring thing you’re going to at least have to approximate language.

Finns and Americans are both “they”. Everybody who isn’t you or me is they.

Keep it up, we’ll descend all the way down to pure formal logic this way. Breaking new frontiers of semiotics, I tell you.

You can caveat it with their perspective all you want, that’s an aditional statement that has nothing to do with the original perfectly valid, perfectly understandable statement that you understood.

You absolutely can decide whether something someone else does is “normal” and do all the time. “I can’t believe how often people in Finland go to the sauna, man, it’s just not normal” is a perfectly acceptable statement nobody would have an issue with unless they were deliberately pretending to misunderstand it to be obnoxious and trolly on the Internet.

That is literally what you do every time you use the word, unless you add “for them” afterwards or you’re talking about yourself.

I was going to bring in another copypasta here, but this one is so obviously wrong I kinda need to call it fresh.