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This FTC has the balls for it, too.

Amazon. Apple. Who’s next?

How many ai "improvements" do you think are based on ideas generated by ai at this point?

The answer is definitely not zero. Which is pretty fuckin weird, the more I think about it.

if they use an LLM to make the suggestions then it’s possible it ends up suggesting websites that don’t even exist. or it could accidentally suggest a malware website, or make a typo, etc.

this could be dangerous if they aren’t very careful

Obligatory people getting mad at you for people suggesting you stop using software that is openly hostile toward you response.

"Hey, I see that it looks like you're having fun and fun and relaxing in a few days so I don't have a chance to get the remainder of the time in the past"

Dialed up to Windows 11!

Capitalism be like.

Since you asked, and I commented on Lemmy about this before.

Back in the Windows XP and even Windows 7 days Microsoft was trying to sell computers to people. It had to convince people why computers are worth their time.

Fast forward to Windows 10 and now it's, "ok we now got an audience that's addicted to our operating system, lets see what we can get away with. We might lose like 1% to Linux and like 5% to mac doing some of these while most of everyone won't switch at all. and we increase our profits."

We got click-baited into reading about Microsoft doing shady shit with their browser default settings (again, no less!), but that part wasn’t even mentioned in the article.

corporations are people when it comes to "free speech" (read: political bribes) but they aren't when it comes to accountability. this is what happens when you don't treat corporations like people and fucking jail them for shit like this.

also, [use Linux instead]

How about using M$ Edge on Linux? /s

Seriously though, one of my friends uses Edge on Windows, Linux, and Android. I still couldn't wrap my head around his decision.

Corporations are so large now they can do outrageous things like this and they will still have millions or billions of users who don't care. Plus they have learned that bad press is free advertising.

I moved from Windows 10 to Fedora/Debian recently. Dual-booting them until I figure out which one I want to use. I've used Debian on servers for 20+ years, but Fedora seems like a great distro too. I switched to Fedora at work too, and I'm enjoying it. At work, I can choose between a MacBook with MacOS, or a Lenovo ThinkStation or X1 Carbon / P1 with Windows or Fedora.

The only Windows-specific app I really cared about was Visual Studio, but Jetbrains Rider is looking like a good replacement. I don't really do any PC gaming any more.

They pushed me to Linux (Arch btw).

They aren't targeting people like me though. They are targeting people like my wife that doesn't read what she clicks and just accepts it.

Microsoft are being really very pushy to get people to use Edge.

It reaches through your monitor and slaps you.

PDFs are... Not an image format? It's a document format that is difficult to edit, and thus mostly meant to be read-only, but a document nonetheless.

An image viewer can't open a pdf, unless for some ungodly reason it also has a whole pdf reader built into it, which just sounds inane. Defaulting to a browser is icky, and I think stems from browsers having gotten good PDF support before Microsoft could figure it out. This is something that ideally belongs to a reader, either dedicated to PDF, or supporting similar formats, be it documents or ebooks.

That's like saying that a 3D project file is basically an image format, if it's built to be rendered out from a viewpoint into an image.

I find it wild that, to this day, Windows defaults to opening them in a browser. Windows has an image viewer right there.

Can that image viewer extract text so that a user could easily copy/paste it? I think if whatever pdf I was opening didn't allow me to do that I would be really frustrated.