You also need to go through the settings with an electron microscope and turn off all the data collection stuff. The text prediction, dictionary, pen and tablet stuff, it all collects and sends data to MS. There’s a bunch of services that you need to turn off as well- some of them you can’t.
Optimally you would take a scalpel to the registry and group policy editor.
There’s a bunch of super useful scripts you can find on github, too!
Edit: Oh shit how could I forget, remove all the microsoft bullshit rules in the firewall as well.
Do those all degrade the speed of copy and paste as well?
I have no clue, but it sure as fuck doesn’t improve any performance metric.
Maybe it’s an O365 thing. I don’t have any Copilot options in Word, checked instructions from various sources, nada. But it is slow to paste. Oh well, got the license free from work, not a subscription. Only use word for unserious shit like making a flea market sign.
Once again, a “Windows evil” post that I cannot replicate, don’t have the invasive things I’m supposed to be seeing, no issue. I have a feeling I disabled a bunch of BS on the original install, which started on 10, same SSD in 3 PCs. Also, it’s a vanilla ISO, that probably helps a lot.
If you use Wireshark you can see what is going on.
TLS encrypted traffic
To be fair, you can see TLS traffic. It isn’t invisible, just opaque.
A stream suddenly as soon as you paste that goes off to Akamai is certainly suspicious, and probably related.
You can use Charles Proxy with their certificate on windows
Netsh trace
Soon we will need a program to make settings in our program.
A “Windows Manager Manager”
I have to use Teams for work. Every time I upload a PowerPoint it’s 30s of waiting before I can put it into presentation mode, and the error message if I hammer the button is " we’re still loading your PowerPoint", and I can SEE it’s already loaded. The event that marks when I can hit the button? Is when the search bar turns into a copilot prompt bar.
User/IT error.
Don’t you ever get sick of just being the eternal contrarian for absolutely no reason?
I’m not in the mood today, CallMeAnAI. Go troll somewhere else.
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How does one disable copilot in Word? The things I’ve thought of don’t seem to work or it wouldn’t let me do.
Installing Libreoffice should work
Work computer. Not allowed.
Then it’s work’s problem. Don’t use it for personal things (which, really, you shouldn’t do anyway for basically the same reason).
True. I keep that shit on-campus and don’t cross-contaminate.
Also pretty funny when coworkers are annoyed by work emails showing up on their phones and I’m just like “give me a work phone, then.”
Open a request ticket. You never know until you ask.
I would specifically add details about how Copilot is interfering with your work flow by causing the software to lag every time you paste something. Add some back of the envelope math showing how much time and money it’s costing them per day/week/month to have you let copilot lag your computer.
They won’t even let us have Firefox.
PortableApps. Scoop.
Switch workplaces
/s but honestly do it if you can
Honest answer? Uninstall and reinstall with modified install instructions to only install the last version pre-copilot integration and disable updates.
The other options are more like ‘turn off this copilot button’ not an actual disable.Thanks! I wondered if it would be something like this.
Ditch word.
Windows is malware.
Yes, and it won’t get better. There is no effective regulation against this kind of stuff. US big tech companies are basically (not theoretically/legally, but in practice) allowed to steal everything from their consumers what they want these days, just like AI companies violate copyrights on a massive scale.
In the EU, the US big tech companies already managed to pull off a regulatory capture of the Irish Data Protection agency, the one responsible for all US big tech companies operating in Europe, the one that is theoretically supposed to ensure data protection. Because that agency is being headed by a former Meta lobbyist. That means there will be effectively zero repercussion for US big tech breaking copyright, privacy, data protection or other such laws in the EU, despite the EU having some of the strongest data protection laws in theory. They will all be not mostly, but fully, ignored. There were never many repercussions before, and fines had symbolic character at best, but now they can all go completely unhinged, and on top of that the US will also add political pressure on countries which dare to hold US-based companies accountable under local laws. Since many EU countries and/or UK are essentially digital colonies of US tech companies I don’t think there will be much resistance. There are tons of self-inflicted painful dependencies on the dollar, on SWIFT, on US-based credit cards, on US-based cloud providers, … for the EU, the US turning rogue is massively painful, but this outcome was already predictable decades ago, yet nothing was being done about it.
And so MS will absolutely enshittify Windows even more to harvest more and more data and feed their AI models, and there will be zero repercussion, except that Windows will continue to slowly decline and desktop Linux will continue to slowly climb up. It’s just a matter of time. It’s just sad that MS gets away with all that crap. The people who value data protection or privacy have already left the MS world long ago. The rest will simply get looted - all your personal and work life belongs to MS (and, by extension, to the US) if you continue to use their software and services.
Finally someone who agrees with me! Windows itself is a virus that has spread too wide, but thankfully we got a cure that is slowely but surely starting to work
I’ve said it for decades. It checks all the boxes for being classified as a virus.
It self propagates? Well that’s new.
Windows 7 users found themselves on 10 somehow
Always was.
Every day I become more grateful my computer is ‘incompatible’ with Windows 11.
Every day, I feel more vindicated in my choice to switch and wipe my windows partition even with compatible hardware.
Same. The only thing that’s mildly inconvenient is there seems to be no way to remap the buttons on my 8bitdo controller in Linux.
I fire up a Win10 VM for just this purpose. I pass-through the USB and the 8bitdo software is able to change settings just fine. I really wish there was a build of the software that ran on Linux.
Edit: Spoke too soon! I searched again and found this write up for getting it working with WINE. I haven’t tried it yet, but it seems reasonable. https://gist.github.com/pocobio/3921e097d0f8fb36f34a3d90a61d5e84
Ooooh. Have to try this. If it works, windows goes bye bye. I never boot it anyway.
I’m riding out windows 10 to the end of 2026 when security updates stop. My plan is to switch to the hopefully released Steam OS for desktop Linux. Already have amd cpu and GPU for Linux compatibility.
That’s for my gaming desktop computer. I already run Linux Mint on my laptop. My desktop is pretty much just for gaming.
Why wait?
Dual boot CachyOS now, to get accustomed to it; it’s more-or-less exactly what SteamOS will be. It’s built on Arch, too. They ship a bunch of extra Proton stuff with the OS. There’s even a “deckified” kernel option.
It’s built on Arch, btw?
Hi. I’m both retarded and interested in making this change. Can you recommend a decent transition guide?
Google search doesn’t factor in user experience over ads and sponsors, otherwise I would look there. The purple crayon tastes the best and Coke and Pepsi are the same thing.
The wikis are very good: https://wiki.cachyos.org/installation/installation_prepare/
And more general info: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
They’re official, so that’s the first place to look.
But in general, I guess it depends on what you already know and have. Do you have a laptop with a single disk? Or a desktop with more than one? Do you know anything about disk partitioning and such? Do you want to clean install Windows, or keep it as-is?
My solution to dual booting Windows today would be to generally follow the wiki guide, use refind as your bootloader, KDE as your desktop, read up on partitioning, and make a second EFI partition to install CachyOS onto.
To simplify, an EFI partition is the “thing that your motherboard uses to boot into your operating system,” so you just make two of them so they can’t touch each other.
This is less convenient; if something messes up, you might have to mash a function key on boot to switch between Windows/Linux. But it heads off several potential issues. Like Windows Update messing with EFI randomly so Linux won’t boot (which it rarely does), or your default Windows EFI partition being too small (which it probably is).
Meh. Like I said, it’s pretty much just a gaming PC. I also have a steam deck, my laptop is running Mint, and like 15 years ago I ran Linux Ubuntu. It isn’t that I need to get familiar. It’s that I just don’t want to mess around with swapping an OS again and again. All my games are running on windows and I play a couple games that aren’t compatible on Linux every so often, so I’m not in a hurry to change.
What I did for many games is just leave them on a shared NTFS partition so I can play them on either Windows or Linux.
Or you can literally just mount your windows partition.
I sympathize, I still mostly use stripped Windows 11 for gaming (and Linux for other stuff). But we’re going to have to switch sooner or later, and it increasingly seems to be “sooner”
I know exactly when to switch (November 2026), how to do it, and what to do. I’m not going to screw with dual booting for no reason for only a year, won’t use win 10 after it stops getting security updates, and won’t go to windows 11. In November I’ll switch to a Linux distro and be done with the setup within the day. Whatever distro at the time seems best suited for having as a gaming PC.
Trying to use Linux for gaming teaches you a lot, though.
You might start at least a month early so you can make a more educated switch before you literally cannot fall back to Windows.
What part of I’ve already done this shit are you not getting? Lol
I thought security updates stopped this last October?
there is an opt-in, free, extended update coverage until fall 2026, i think it was in the “updates and security” settings page
Of course the security updates are opt in only, while all their bs is hidden opt out.
There was an opt in for security updates for an extra year (free).
Microsoft is a criminal organisation. Their employees and shareholders should be shunned and shamed by the public.
Word
PowerPoint
Trivago
Eeeeeey macarena!
Venusaur
And my axe!
And my Bunny Bracelet
Excel
Microsoft is run entirely by incompetent idiots.
No, it’s the exact opposite but their end goal is something entirely different than most want them to.
What?
Microsoft isn’t run by incompetent idiots, it is run by people with a malicious agenda.
The purpose is to make a fuckton of money. They do that. Ergo, they are supremely competent. At making money.
OS and software? Not so much. But that isn’t important.
They used to be good at making money. Now they’re mostly good at throwing away what they’ve made chasing next quarter bumps.
Couldn’t happen to a better company. I hope SteamOS destroys these dumbfucks when it gets fully released.
I’m quite sure they still upload it, but they don’t wait for it to process (and give you hints and tips or whatever).
Neovim meanwhile insert Street Fighter Kai music
