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Mr. Nice! posted:ai.exe and ai.dll from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\vfs\ProgramFilesCommonX64\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE16 followup on this. ai.exe and ai.dll were reinstalled with an update in september. i deleted them again. i really hope there's a way to opt out of this ai poo poo integration.
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Mr. Nice! posted:followup on this. ai.exe and ai.dll were reinstalled with an update in september. i deleted them again. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Bing Chat stamping on a human face— forever.
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how does Microsoft with its trillions of dollars have a web upload interface in sharepoint that’s 1000x worse than mega.nz ?
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Jenny Agutter posted:how does Microsoft with its trillions of dollars have a web upload interface in sharepoint that’s 1000x worse than mega.nz ? I wonder what kim dotcom is up to these days. You don't hear about him much anymore.
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akadajet posted:I wonder what kim dotcom is up to these days. You don't hear about him much anymore. he basically just makes tweets sucking off despots or amplifying conspiracy theories these days
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Bing Chat stamping on a human face— forever. This post was just  You are a good poster and I like and want you posting.
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Internet Old One posted:This post was just thanks op. I try 
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Mr. Nice! posted:followup on this. ai.exe and ai.dll were reinstalled with an update in september. i deleted them again. there is, it's called open office. this is microsoft's thing now, an endless stream of lovely features no one asked for, wedged into every product they make in the most obtrusive ways possible. you can't disable the "ai" features because the backend is used for poo poo like auto-labelling and caption generation and templates, and god knows what else. if you kill it those features just stop working until the next update where they replace all the components
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open office is: 1) absolute garbage; 2) irrelevant as probably the functionality being perfect would do no good as the reason people use office isn't the isolated applications features
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Nov 2, 2023 21:46
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oh yes, i'm not suggesting anyone try to use open office for anything there are no practical alternatives to microsoft office unless you're willing to go all in on gsuite, which is worse in every possible way
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Nov 2, 2023 21:49
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oh yeah, i know i'm hosed. i teach a statistics in excel class, for example.
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microsoft office should really just be microsoft excel, the only one of the applications that does something actually useful
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I love that Microsoft outlook thinks I’m misspelling the last name of the doctor I’m emailing in the body of the email. I swear to god spell check used to be smarter and would ignore names if it was in something like: Hi Dr. [Last Name], not to mention the name is in the “to:” field itself
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it is infuriating that spell check has somehow mostly gotten worse in the last 20 years. features added: it now upcases trademarks, big stuff! ironically it is probably the lowest-hanging fruit of the ai stuff though, as for all its other faults a language model is *really* good at contextually judging whether a word, even an entirely made-up one, makes sense in context or not. (e.g. for sure a language model would prefer to suggest the correct spelling of the last name over whatever else simply because it is there to be observed)
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infernal machines posted:oh yes, i'm not suggesting anyone try to use open office for anything i really like gsuite but it is a google product and ergo should be avoided
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OpenOffice hasn't been in development for like a decade but I assume people saying OpenOffice mean Libreoffice I'm not sure I would recommend libreoffice since I've been burned by problems with its office compatibilty but GSuite has probably a million times worse office compatibility than libreoffice I guess Gsuite is probably ok if it has all the features you need and you only need to export office files and never import them mystes fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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because i am an idiot i use linux at work, which, as a university, does o365 throughout. and honestly, i think the compatibility is the least of my issues with libreoffice. this is partially through me having managed to violently suppress the self-loathing i feel for every document looking wrong, and every person i interact with being able to tell that i am putting in extra effort (using garbage) to be the one causing formatting to now and then be poo poo. but having suppressed the loathing i can live with that. libreoffice is just garbage to use even in a reality where it was the only thing though. wasted an hour of my life and a lot of sheets of paper today trying to make it print a table in a useful way (i.e. scale so the columns fit), a huge mix of missing features and outright bugs messing me up. and that is just one of a billion examples, each one similarly tiny, but *mostly* microsoft office does not do those fuckups. Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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also to be 100% clear i hate open-/libreoffice also for the much more simple reason that it is the poster-child for the impulse "lets do open source to create a shittier version of something incredibly mundane and dull", almost all corporate in this instance, but i have zero love for corporate open source lovely software clone gambles.
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mystes posted:OpenOffice hasn't been in development for like a decade but I assume people saying OpenOffice mean Libreoffice thanks rms git apologist posted:i really like gsuite but it is a google product and ergo should be avoided it's worse than office if you expect a feature to exist for any length of time. generally the places i see it used are startups staffed by people too young to remember the internet before google and for some reason, a workgroup within a major national telecom
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:because i am an idiot i use linux at work, which, as a university, does o365 throughout. and honestly, i think the compatibility is the least of my issues with libreoffice. this is partially through me having managed to violently suppress the self-loathing i feel for every document looking wrong, and every person i interact with being able to tell that i am putting in extra effort (using garbage) to be the one causing formatting to now and then be poo poo. but having suppressed the loathing i can live with that. i had a client try to switch their entire workflow to oss back in ~2006 or so and the entire process was hilariously hosed, absolutely nothing, from top to bottom, worked. not just at first, it never worked, for the three or so years they remained as a company, until the partnership dissolved. none of this was my mess, but i was a "computer guy" the partners knew and would occasionally be tasked with trying to fix something the brain genius that sold them on the system couldn't figure out. as far as i can tell, very little has changed the minute you get a use case beyond "writing more linux software"
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:also to be 100% clear i hate open-/libreoffice also for the much more simple reason that it is the poster-child for the impulse "lets do open source to create a shittier version of something incredibly mundane and dull", almost all corporate in this instance, but i have zero love for corporate open source lovely software clone gambles. It's not just libreoffice either. If you want to make an office suite your options are either to try to be compatible with word and be lovely or make a clean break in which case nobody will use your software because they need compatibility, so most sane people just don't try to make an office suite at all. mystes fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23944124/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-free-employee-removed lmao microsoft is for whatever reason removing the free perk of a $15/month sub to all its employees
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infernal machines posted:it's worse than office if you expect a feature to exist for any length of time. generally the places i see it used are startups staffed by people too young to remember the internet before google and for some reason, a workgroup within a major national telecom the company i work for uses gsuite and tbh most people like it fine, the major exceptions being finance and accounting, which... fair. we get them office licenses the live collaboration features are actually very good, and if you’re a company who does not live and die by office productivity suite output, and don’t care about office compatibility, it’s honestly pretty good i get the “but it’s google” thing and all, but gsuite is like the one product they actually sell for real money so i doubt it’ll disappear (famous last words)
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:because i am an idiot i use linux at work, which, as a university, does o365 throughout. and honestly, i think the compatibility is the least of my issues with libreoffice. this is partially through me having managed to violently suppress the self-loathing i feel for every document looking wrong, and every person i interact with being able to tell that i am putting in extra effort (using garbage) to be the one causing formatting to now and then be poo poo. but having suppressed the loathing i can live with that. Can’t you just use office online?
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nobody writes an office suite for fun and the value prop for creating a corporate-backed oss office suite isn't there either, it's like launching a multi-billion dollar startup to revolutionize printers or something. office license pricing is "reasonable" more or less so companies put up with it. what i don't get is why a bunch of engineering firms don't all get together and make their own cad system so that they can tell autodesk to go pound sand. or idk a bunch of graphic design shops make their own replacement for photoshop so that they can tell adobe to go do one. or something. fair enough, cad packages are used to design bridges and stuff so there's some legal liability there (although good luck proving that autodesk is at fault for a bridge collapsing in a court of law, they have way more lawyers than you) but come on, photoshop? an alternative that is slow and unresponsive and crashes occasionally but mostly works (i.e. isn't krita or gimp) would probably be good enough.
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Sapozhnik posted:what i don't get is why a bunch of engineering firms don't all get together and make their own cad system so that they can tell autodesk to go pound sand. or idk a bunch of graphic design shops make their own replacement for photoshop so that they can tell adobe to go do one. or something. fair enough, cad packages are used to design bridges and stuff so there's some legal liability there (although good luck proving that autodesk is at fault for a bridge collapsing in a court of law, they have way more lawyers than you) but come on, photoshop? an alternative that is slow and unresponsive and crashes occasionally but mostly works (i.e. isn't krita or gimp) would probably be good enough. there's a lot of multi-platform cad software out there. real, commercial stuff, not someone's spare time hobby project (bricscad for example). the problem is that autocad has been around for a long, long time, and trying to break the inertia is like rolling a boulder-sized lump of lead uphill e: which isn't to say that it can't be done. it's not unusual to see blender used in places where, a decade ago, you wouldn't have seen anything other than 3dsmax or maya The_Franz fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Sapozhnik posted:nobody writes an office suite for fun and the value prop for creating a corporate-backed oss office suite isn't there either, it's like launching a multi-billion dollar startup to revolutionize printers or something. office license pricing is "reasonable" more or less so companies put up with it. just use pixelmator op
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its really hard to break an entrenched monopoly, especially in a space where there isnt much potential for growth (like office suites). every percentage point of market share you earn has to be ripped away from the dominant player indesign replacing quark as the primary software for publishing is about the only example i can think of, and that was only possible because quark fumbled the ball in the most spectacular way imaginable
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Pinterest Mom posted:https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23944124/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-free-employee-removed there's no time to play games when you could be spending your evenings adding more bing buttons to windows
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Pinterest Mom posted:https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23944124/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-free-employee-removed I heard that Valve employees still get 90% off on Steam games take that, MSFT
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Pinterest Mom posted:https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/2/23944124/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-ultimate-free-employee-removed I mean it's still probably over a million a year in theoretical costs, if everyone uses it whether or not that's meaningful, well, our multinational only pays for office for managers and admin, so they aren't alone at least e: but then they also bought us laptops for 10k each (which featured in an LTT YouTube video "the laptop you want your boss to buy for you" or something like that) with the reasoning of, eh, it has enough ram for your IDE/VMs - nevermind that most of the cost is one of the industrial nvidia GPUs which we have zero use for Private Speech fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Private Speech posted:I mean it's still probably over a million a year in theoretical costs, if everyone uses it wtf is a 10k laptop the most expensive current macbook appears to be an already ridiculous 7.2k maxed out (i didnt add the software titles)
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Private Speech posted:e: but then they also bought us laptops for 10k each (which featured in an LTT YouTube video "the laptop you want your boss to buy for you" or something like that) with the reasoning of, eh, it has enough ram for your IDE/VMs - nevermind that most of the cost is one of the industrial nvidia GPUs which we have zero use for so uh what’s the battery life like on a monster like that
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I've only ever used it plugged in really for WFH or docked in the office, maybe for a short while here and there, but I think it's sub 2 hours it's mostly the quadro GPU making up the cost, though there's a colour accurate 4k HDR monitor too. I think apple doesn't do expensive gpus in general (not that they are any use for me) not this exact one, but it's this: https://youtu.be/-TWj-biXpLo to be clear it was only our dev team that I'm aware (though maybe it was originally for the UI people and we ended up piggybacking or some such, since it was mentioned it's on some approved list), but it's very indicative of the general attitude before that it was surface books, which is funny because I have one myself that I bought with my own money (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Private Speech fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Nov 4, 2023 |
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I still remember my coworker going "well I know what the most expensive thing in my house is now for contents insurance"
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Carthag Tuek posted:i just reached for apple as the platonic "expensive laptop" yeah it's one of the biggest tech youtube channels but they are like that Private Speech fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Nov 4, 2023 |
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