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Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings (www.cnet.com)
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"We set out to solve one of the most common frustrations we hear — finding and changing settings on your PC — using the power of AI agents," Navjot Virk, corporate vice president of Windows Experiences at Microsoft, said in a blog post on Tuesday. "An agent uses on-device AI to understand your intent and with your permission, automate and execute tasks."

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[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 31 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

Ah Christ. We’ve collectively regressed so much in computer knowledge that people can’t even find a settings menu? Even I have trouble believing that one.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

The problem that i cant find the setting, or it's in a different app or intentionally cant be changed easily. I want to limit my battery to charge only when below 30%; but i cant do that in battery or power settings. I want to disable some "feature" where windows randomly adds a new keybord layout to windows, but this is not a setting but seems to be a bug. I want to completely disable usb- or lan-wakeup, but despite changing settings in the device manager my desktop is sometimes turned on in the morning after i set it to hibernate the night before. I dont want one-drive or cloud, but this is also not a setting but a design decision by the MS marketing department to make money with their half-baked cloud solutions.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Well, there's the small issue of Windows now having control panel the settings app and some shitty third thing sprinkled in there somewhere. There are some things that should have settings but don't. You can no longer simply disable Windows update on your own, because Microsoft has decided they know best.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 hours ago

kinda fair considering windows has like 20 control panels that should all do the same thing but at the end of the day you still need to use regedit.

[–] Biyoo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 9 hours ago

Finding settings in Windows is pretty hard

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 17 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

The last time finding settings in Windows was straight forward was Windows 95. Since the stupid dumbed down 'settings' app was vomited upon us, it has been nearly impossible to find the thing you know is there but has now been renamed and moved, and isn't even indexed in the settings app search bar.

[–] FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The registry never has and never will be simple nor usable. Windows is rotten to the core.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Have you tried to configure gnome beyond what is offered in its GUI ?

[–] Mesophar@pawb.social 2 points 1 hour ago

The reasoning I moved from Windows to Linux was this right here.

If I'm going to be fighting with Windows anyway, because of the registry giving me issues, then the drawback of "but Linux hard! You have to configure things!" was moot.

[–] FurryMemesAccount@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

No, I'm a happy i3wm user.

Because I've tried to get GNOME to do what I wanted. (Also it was too slow on the machines I was using at the time).

And that's besides the point: on linux you can just use a good DE without messing with much -- KDE, cinnamon, etc...

[–] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Just to be the devil's advocate here: There are way more settings now than back then. That interface wouldn't cut it either.

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The problem isn't the new coat of paint - it's more that Microsoft keeps painting half the building then starting over for the new OS. It's frustrating that the key to finding a setting is knowing when it was developed to know which UI you need to be digging through.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Even on 11 hit winkey+r then type in CONTROL

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Not convinced the number matter as much if settings are indexed and thus searchable, which they probably are now otherwise the "AI" wouldn't be able to access them. So... just more convolutions for the end user?

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

You know that windows 10 still has the original control panel hidden deep in there.

Why do that