• ivan@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    I actually don’t see any issues with AI in Ubuntu as long as it’s not like Microsoft’s “here’s Copilot absolutely everywhere, even in Notepad”. I mean, there’s also no way they can shove it up users throats like that too, even their so beloved snap can be removed from the system quite easily.

    But implementing that would still certainly require some constructive discussion with userbase, and it’s already off to a rough start. 🌚

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      5 hours ago

      Where there a will to enshittify, there’s a way.

      They could weave dependencies in such a manner as to prevent other critical stuff from running without it, or straight up build it into something that would prevent the system from running properly if you remove it.

      Of course, they’d lose the vast majority of their userbase, but short term profit line must go up according to the idiots with MBAs.

      Edit: fixed a typo

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        5 hours ago

        Or they can do it more slowly, more insidiously, so that people on the internet will say, “oh it’s just one snap, just remove it, no big deal.” Turn the heat up slowly, always be not quite as bad as Microsoft.