This is like the third time in the past two months I’ve seen someone trying to spread FUD around Signal.

If any other messenger had the same issue, Moxie Marlinspike and fans would have an outcry on biblical proportions.

My pc is old unfortunately. I’d hate to upgrade it to support win11 jsut to disable all the ai crap.

Alternatives to soon-to-be unsupported Windows releases exist.

But I hate that my old pc keeps getting updates with copilot without me asking for copilot.

MS replaced Cortana with Copilot, so it’s kida just an update to an existing feature.

I spent a good 20 minutes trying to remove copilot from my windows 10 machine last night.

On Windows 11 you can just uninstall it. I did. Win10 is old and about to be unsupported.

Linux support also appears to be coming along nicely (though not ready yet).

Linux, as in kernel: Yes. Qualcomm doesn’t develop FOSS GPU drivers, though. freedreno only supports older Adreno GPUs.

I switched completely over 6 months ago

There were no Copilot+ PCs 6 months ago. Stop lying.

Isn’t the point of self-lacing shoes that they shouldn’t require manual user input at all? What is the app for then?

Yes, you don’t understand that the story is about the Mac client and then later it was found out that Linux and Windows are equally affected. Did you even attempt to read it?

“they” ist kein Pluralwort.

And yet the grammar attached with its use is plural and that’s super weird. “They goes to the store” is just wrong.

then use “they”

After 30 years of education saying otherwise it is not so easy.

do you speak exclusively with yourself?

I don’t speak English with others at all. I’m not in an English speaking country.

your linguistic choices affect others

Having a hard time grasping completely new concepts is not a choice.

You obviously understand English to a lesser degree than me. I nowhere wrote that I made demands to comply with me. Where on earth do you get that idea that offering a perspective is a demand?

“Busy”, “More busy than usual”,… Not absolute numbers.

So San Francisco just invented the webcam? (Btw, Google Maps already shows how busy establishments are.)

As a non-native speaker, I really have a lot of problems using a plural word as singular. When I read it, I always have to read twice to check whether one or more people are meant. I rather read and use “she/he” even with the additional typing.

Of course that notebook is bad but for the price point of shitty hardware, you get shitty hardware. Apple sells shitty hardware at the cost of premium hardware.

Shipping with Windows S. That’s Microsoft’s version of a Chromebook for some light web browsing for 188 dollars. I wouldn’t buy it but this doesn’t look like a rip off at this price point.