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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Broke The Copilot Key
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:20:03 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 12:41 this Saturday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>
>> CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote at 13:51 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> Le 2024-12-18 à 23:45, chrisv a écrit :
>>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> So the key still does something for consumer users, but it is now
>>>>> completely nonfunctional for business users.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sad fate for a key that was only added to keyboards less than a year
>>>>> ago ...
>>>> 
>>>> Beats running "copilot", possibly the most invasive spyware ever.  The
>>>> answer to the question that nobody has asked.
>>>
>>> +1. However, after a few years with Co-Pilot, a lot of users are going 
>>> to find it impossible to use a computer without it. Once again, nobody 
>>> should underestimate how short-sighted people are and how willing they 
>>> are to have something else do their job for them. Once people get used 
>>> to having a machine document things for them, they will refuse to revert 
>>> to the old way of doing things. To give you an example, ask yourself how 
>>> many people nowadays actually remember the numbers of the people they 
>>> call all the time or basic facts about the world. They've relegated 
>>> those tasks to their smartphones and now wonderful why their long-term 
>>> memory is such shit.
>>
>> I actually try to memorize my immediate family's phone numbers, just in
>> case.
>
> Microsoft-owned GitHub asks me to try Copilot :-D.
>
> Uh no.


Yeah, I think they're just giving it out to everyone now.
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