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Comment Re: More wasted RAM (Score 2) 149

Your comment is so off base I decided to log in.
Absolutely nothing streams in a webpage the way you describe it. Iâ(TM)ll provide a simplified overview.

âoeStreamingâ in a browser involves downloading a CHUNK of data (RAM needed to store this chunk),
It is then fed into the appropriate codec to read the chunk and decompress (RAM needed for codec), the codec needs to move the raw bits to audio hardware, this often involves copying the bits from RAM to the hardware device, which can have its own RAM.
All this ignores any Javascript running, encryption, containerization of the tab, etcâ¦

Quite simply, it is not possible to stream in a browser tab without using RAM.

If you still think Iâ(TM)m wrong, remove the RAM from your computer and boot. It canâ(TM)t. It wonâ(TM)t. Everything that runs uses RAM.

Comment Non local is non starter (Score 5, Insightful) 68

The article dances around how it affects creating and using local accounts. If Microsoft is trying to kill local accounts, they can take a hike. I will never. Ever. Ever. Not create local accounts. No compromising, no negotiations. No quarter. End of story.

Comment Re:Copilot currently needs specific setting enable (Score 4, Interesting) 25

Update: Still no sign of Copilot.
MS and news articles are advertising Copilot, I've installed the necessary updates, and there's still NO SIGN of Copilot except for a Bing chat icon on either side of the start menu.
- The one on the left called "chat", opens the Edge browser to a blue-ish (Balanced) webpage and submits my search query automatically to "The new Bing" AI chat.
- The one on the right with a Bing chat bubble opens a purple-ish (Creative) webpage and does not submit my search query automatically to "The new Bing" AI chat.

Also, it looks like Copilot isn't a single "thing"- rather, it appears to be an addition to several different products, including:
- Edge (browser)
- Teams
- O365
- MS Paint ... all of which may have different ways of activating Copilot?
For example, MS Paint shows no signs of Copilot- Do I have to sign in on Edge? Do I have to have to log in to my computer with a MS account? Do I need to somehow activate a Beta/Dev/Canary channel somewhere? Do I need to download and install some kind of Bing sidebar?

It is NOT clear how to activate or use Copilot within the context of the computer itself. So far, I've only found the purple and blue webpages.
I see screenshots of folks using a standalone Copilot icon in their taskbar- no one seems to be talking about how that got there or how to get it there. I for one, do not have this icon on my start bar.

Comment Copilot currently needs specific setting enabled (Score 2) 25

I installed KB5030310 and saw no sign of Copilot. Did some extra research:

As detailed here: https://blogs.windows.com/wind...

1) You won't see Copilot unless you go in to settings and enable the megaphone-icon option called "Get the latest updates as soon as they're available"
2) "Windows Configuration Update (KB5030509)" will show up even if you've already installed KB5030310 with the megaphone option off.

Comment Re:Stop buying cloud products... (Score 2) 52

That's the problem right there. I was screwed over by this company when I bought it and it didn't have any cloud services. They then removed the good software they had and replaced it with software that had mandatory ads. I believe a lawsuit was launched over this, but I never heard anything about it. I even filed a BBB complaint that I, and many others had bought this product under certain expectations and those expectations and the company had purposefully and fundamentally changed the product to be worse than we had bought it. I swore off the company after they screwed me and many others over with the additional mandatory ads and apparently, they weren't done yet - tying their customers to a completely useless cloud account so that they could yet again screw their customers over. I wonder if there's an old firmware floating around that doesn't have the cloud capabilities. It's still a perfectly viable product except for the cloud crap.

In sum: Many of us never bought a cloud product. We bought a product that was transformed to a cloud product, which we never wanted and would not have bought if it had been sold to us like that.

Comment Re:Ban the lot of 'em (Score -1, Troll) 543

So.... you also support banning black supremacists too? Because racial superiority banning does not in the least only apply to whites. That's racist you know. How much bashing do we do before the whites start throwing off the chains of social slavery? This type of thinking only fuels more of the type of stuff we're trying to do away with.

Be careful what you fight for, because the rules and reasoning to ban $(color) supremacists can be turned right around and used against you.

"There should be no tolerance for the intolerant..." That's an automatic fail right there. I don't find it fascist. I find it logically inconsistent.

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