All of it is. Or pushing copilot into all Microsoft products like anyone is using this shit.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
637 points (96.9% liked)
Technology
61300 readers
2355 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Every time I've opened an Office app this week it has given me some copilot welcome screen and opened it's own sidebar. I tried to use it to proofread a word doc and got prompted to purchase a license. So they basically just filled 1/3 of my screen with an ad.
Problem with Gemini is that is sucks badly in comparison with more mature solutions.
It really is terrible. I've tried a dozen times to get it to do anything that the free version of GPT can do...fails every time on the few things it even tries.
Use a hardened Firefox, use a different search engine
I don't even have chrome installed. I use Firefox and Duckduckgo. It in android phones and gsuite products that people have to use for work.You have to go to extreme lengths to uninstall on desktop as outlined in the article, and cannot uninstall or opt out of on android.
My power button on my phone now opens Gemini... Every damn time it's bumped. Press to wake? Oh hello Gemini
Install LineageOS or e/os/ on your phone and bye bye Gemini 🙂
Somehow I've never come across any of these things in my day to day. I hope I can casually avoid them for a long long time.
That's how it is. I never even set up Gemini when my phone updated. I never used google assistant either.
Wanted to say it feels like Microsoft doing same thing with Copilot, but at least you can disable that. At least on enterprise plans, home / small business apperently is a different story now.
I wasn't able to disable Copilot in Office without threatening to cancel via my account management page. It's only then that they give you the option to fall back to the originally priced plan that specifically doesn't include Copilot. And even after that, Copilot apparently won't be removed from my locally installed copies of the Office apps until my plan renewal date in April! I'm pretty sure I'm gonna use the time to transition all my documents to LibreOffice and fully cancel my MS Office plan before it renews.
They're laying down the road and try to get you to use it. The toll booths come soon enough when every alternative gets blocked as much as possible.
I just tried it for the first time. I like how it tried to educate me
I didn't like the verbosity overall
It felt dumb that using it via android studio it didn't have any capacity. It didn't know I was building for android. It couldn't implement any of its own suggestions and a lot of the suggestions were incomplete.
After asking chatgpt, Gemini and deepseek I still can't get Godot to build an android export that contains the sqlite shared object accessible to the code.
I'm losing my mind.