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Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] the_q@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now is a great time to give Linux a shot. I recommend Pop! OS.

[–] mofongo@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Does pop os also have a copilot?

[–] Massada42@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No. However, it also lacks ads.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 9 months ago

Double bonus!

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You really, really don't need an AI assistant for regular computer usage. It's a solution in search of a problem.

There are genuinely good reasons to use GitHub Copilot if you're a developer, but otherwise, I think they're way more trouble than they're worth.

[–] mofongo@lemm.ee -1 points 9 months ago

I mean I could see myself giving copilot some prompts when doing office stuff, like styling and formatting.

This should really simplify office usage especially for people who only use it sparingly and then don’t remember every function.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No Linux distro has, as M$ hasn't made their AIs open source. But there are people working on open source alternatives.

[–] mofongo@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ok that sounds awesome do you know any open source copilot projects by chance?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not open source but free; https://codeium.com/

Not open source, paid; https://www.tabnine.com/

FOSS; https://github.com/THUDM/CodeGeeX2/blob/main/README_EN.md

https://github.com/madox2/vim-ai

[–] mofongo@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Thx for the suggestions! I’ll check them out

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Theres paid ai .. like this

https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter

Give commands to chatgpt in the the terminal. Then it executes it. It can generate files, etc as well. Using python iirc.

[–] mofongo@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Looks really cool! Thanks for the suggestion

[–] Jocker@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, YOU stay with windows.