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Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 (mastodon.gamedev.place)

submitted 7 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t get this. For each of my devices running arch, the only tinkering I’ve encountered were for nitpicky customizations I wanted, which I have to do on another distro. After the arch installation completes it’s given me a fully functional desktop

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

if you don't install the wrong packages or skip a step in the installation lmao

[–] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

🤦‍♂️ of course! I forgot to install it wrong lol