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Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension (www.pcworld.com)
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  • A Chrome extension called “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest against the company’s aggressive AI integration.
  • The extension reflects widespread user frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extremely low adoption rates and growing privacy concerns among Windows users.
  • Many users actively seek ways to remove AI features from Windows, highlighting significant backlash against Microsoft’s AI strategy despite CEO dismissals of complaints.
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[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damnit I just switched to Ubuntu. That explains why I kept getting lost. What about Debian?

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Debian and Mint are both good. The former is aimed at servers and the latter is aimed at desktop use. They are otherwise very similar under the hood.

That explains why I kept getting lost.

Anything specific I could help out with?

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hmm, okay. Yeah I was trying to set up an environment to dabble with machine vision and had trouble finding good instructions or guidance for programming env setup. I think in college we used something-Unix but it's been so long I don't really have a frame of reference anymore. So I'm looking for a low-overhead daily driver that's also relatively common or amenable to maker communities

If that makes sense.

[–] SuperUserDO@piefed.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If you install Ubuntu already your fine.

Personally I don't want to spend time working on my computer (that's work me), so I use mint. Just about any flavor of Linux can have a basic development env configuration done.

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

Cool thanks, I'll stick with it! At least until I'm familiar and want to try something new

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Hmmm, now that is not something I'm qualified to answer. Hopefully someone else speaks up.