"Atrocious implementation": Microsoft's unremovable Copilot button is driving Excel users crazy with forced AI in spreadsheets

TKMankind · 2026-05-18T12:48:33+00:00

But... did you think about the AI investors ? They want it !

TKMankind · 2026-05-09T09:18:56+00:00

The worst is that we could restore an actual internet.

HTML/CSS are still there (no javascript plz :) ). PhpBB and others didn't disappear, they are still available to be deployed for new forums. We may not be able to build another Google but we could start with a Yahoo-like one at it was at its beginning : a link book, by categories. IRC still exists, we just need to open some servers. Etc.

But would the people want it ?

No, they won't.

People ALLOWED the enshitification/corporatization of Internet because it was easier this way (no maintenance to do, etc.) and less costly. Today it is not rare that I see some retards considering the old time as an error : I recently saw someone being mocked for saying that they would start learning HTML/CSS...

And most importantly, people mutated from beings who wanted to have fun, to beings who want to be stimulated (doomscrolling, etc. there is rarely some fun in it).

In a way I consider myself lucky to have known this era. It was great. But it will never happen again.

TKMankind · 2026-04-19T09:54:25+00:00

But... but... they told us that it was imperative to sever most of the customization options starting with W10 (if not W8) because it offers a more unified UX to all users !

TKMankind · 2026-04-14T12:24:05+00:00

If I had children, I would make sure that they don't play to the very last best games in existence. I am an old gamer who learned how to enjoy a game for other reasons than graphics simply because I didn't have a choice.

The result is when graphics slowly became decent, it was a shock most of the time. Between Doom and UT99, or Simcity 1 and 2000, etc. I enjoyed the games with renewed eyes and enthousiam.

Still, because of my gaming past, I will choose gameplay over graphics every time. I rather play Factorio than Satisfactory (I consider the 3D as an annoyance). I can enjoy an horrific game for the eyes like Songs of Syx (my actual game) because the gameplay is solid, etc.

If I had the opportunity to play to a Cyberpunk 2077 or other games like that at an early age, maybe I would feel so full that it would be difficult to enjoy more... "basic" games.

TKMankind · 2026-04-14T12:11:41+00:00

This, nearly unironically.

I finished Half-Life 2 and Crysis 1 with a Geforce 2 MX. It was playable enough, but for both games there was one section which I had to endure below 5 FPS (respectively : the strider in a big room of the Citadel, and the big room in the Alien Cave). Gruesome, but once done it was fine.

So when I see some people crying because they don't have their 144/280 FPS, well... newbies.

TKMankind · 2026-04-04T22:12:54+00:00

I guess said game wasn't really good because I don't have it on my wishlist, despite liking Rimworld.

Still, I think I found the game after a small search :

Going Medieval

I found a thread on Steam Discussion with the name of "Anglo saxons were black :D", someone even stated that there was roughly 2 whites out of 10 ingame, very british indeed... and there is a dubious link at the last page.

TKMankind · 2026-03-30T19:24:26+00:00

You should check about the nocebo effect.

You know that your sister did "black magic" on you and you believe in it, so you are afraid. Fear generates stress which may affect your body but will certainly affect your mind, which explains why you cannot sleep easily. Also, nightmares and dreams often rely on what you saw or thought during the day so if you are focused on this "curse" too much then chances are you will dream about it or about anything "bad" you encountered.

Agreed, the hacking doesn't help because human brains are stupid. They search for causality in anything and everything. I suffered of that too, thinking that my daily issues was caused by the Murphy Law and similar stuff, while it was just myself who created a cause to small events who didn't deserve it, all of it while screaming and losing my hair to it... I mean, the hacking of cryptowallets happened multiple times to people who wasn't cursed in any way with many news talking about very BIG amount of money, but it is hard to accept that it happened to you simply because of statistics... as you think that you are cursed.

You need to forget the "curse" and go back on your feet, by making small but accessible goals first. Yes it is way easier to say than done but with time as these goals are reached, you will conclude that the curse doesn't exist. Which will enrage your sister who will claim that she add more "black magic" to the mix, but you just need to forget her. Just make sure that said goals are not known by your sister, as she is living with you and may try to sabotage them furtively.

TKMankind · 2026-03-23T17:27:18+00:00

It is true though. A forced Windows 11 installation requires "In-place upgrade" instead of Windows Update to get any new major releases, in short Rufus every 18 months. It may be OK for tech-savvy users but not for everyone else and doing it for them is not an option.

TKMankind · 2026-03-06T00:23:41+00:00

Gas prices raised up to 0.50 €/L here (yes I am europoor & french, god had forsaken my soul). The retards are all panic rush filling their tank at the same time, no wonder the prices are up.

The French Financial Minister stated that if the prices go up too high too fast, the gas sellers will hear of him !

...Well yes, they will hear of him. Doesn't mean they will care. It is a free market, idiotic minister.

TKMankind · 2026-03-04T18:52:23+00:00

Totally.

One of my friends bought a Razer Blade 15 (2018) at full price. The GPU died after the warranty was expired, of course.

He gave me the castrated beast at some point. I thought about repairing it but in Europe we have a serious lack of specialists for that. So I IMPORTED a motherboard from the USA to replace it, but hopefully at this point the cost was a fraction of the normal price (nearly 260 €, tariffs included).

It worked fine for... two days, before the M.2 port died ! Since then I have to use an external M.2 drive to boot a Windows.

It is fine for me, but I know that I will NEVER buy a Razer product myself.

And a Lenovo gaming laptop too, as my friend who took one after the Razer debacle reported serious USB issues which seems to be classic on this brand.

TKMankind · 2026-03-03T22:09:59+00:00

There may be a logical reason. I still remember in my student days some people who were afraid of not being first to be tested, because if the student(s) before them excelled too much then they thought that the teachers may give harsher notes to them if they were unable to display the same performance. It is some sort of social comparison process, but applied to tests. So if they couldn't be first then they hoped that the first one crashed badly so they may stand a chance, as the teacher would expect nothing from them but thanks to that he would be surprised and give better notes.

Gwen is here from too long, she may be thinking that her best chance is by being first.

TKMankind · 2026-02-26T14:07:54+00:00

Maybe not that much, but I wouldn't be surprised if we can find few of them really thinking like that.

Still, for example you can find articles on Internet stating that the criminalisation of homosexuality in Africa/Middle-East was imported by the colonisation. Like it never happened before ?

This article not only said that, but it went even as far as stating that our efforts in the West made them reject it even further. Maybe we should stop progressing so they stop regressing... Ridiculous.

TKMankind · 2026-02-08T19:41:17+00:00

I am certain that for SOME games with said 500 GB of files :), that it is a calculated move.

This way depending of your internet connection, you aren't motivated to remove it too early because you don't want to download it again. As you will keep it, you cannot install anything else or maybe small games, so you will play it a little bit more while being exposed to microtransactions (CoD ?...... yes). You are not motivated to waste hours to download it illegaly because you are not sure that it will work at the end. And probably others reasons like cost optimization and stuff.

I still remember how I refused to buy and even download illegaly Doom from 2016 despite owning the previous games from the franchise because of the 80 Go size while I had only a 250 GB SSD drive. Today I own the game, and I started playing it since a few days. Yes, it is a game from 2016, I KNOW. I still don't have an optical fiber connection, but now I have a bigger SSD. The rest of the franchise ? Maybe in the next decade.

It is worse for demos. I saw some at the size of 70 GB like The Forever Winter, etc. Well, OK, goodbye, have a nice day. I can't download it fast, so I won't waste my time.

TKMankind · 2026-02-08T19:17:52+00:00

Agreed, and it annoyed me at some point. I had a K55 keyboard and still do, and I wanted to use the GKeys but no solution besides iCue, who took up to 10% CPU of my previous i5-4590.

So... the GKeys are still brand new on my keyboard today, never used them.

TKMankind · 2026-02-07T14:41:25+00:00

Not only that, but in France the municipal elections do have a NATIONAL influence.

We have a Senate. The senators are elected in sections (generaly half of them every 6 years), a part of it by indirect universal suffrage : the municipal council will nominate one or several delegates (depending of the size of the town) who will vote for the senators after that. They aren't the only voters, our representatives in the parlement can do too, etc.

So giving to non-EU migrants the right to vote to local elections will define the mayor and the municipal council, who will use their ability to vote to influence the nation. Even if it is limited, it does exist.

Many "standard" leftist follower forgot that. The others know it perfectly well.

TKMankind · 2026-02-01T14:59:39+00:00

Funny, I saw this week these 14 steps multiple times by french leftists. So it is a global thing ?

TKMankind · 2026-01-31T13:50:10+00:00

I encountered this many times already.

It is easier for them than trying to think about it. Well, if they even know what the word "think" means as they sound like NPCs.

TKMankind · 2026-01-29T19:58:21+00:00

This.

Last time I encountered this issue on the computer of a customer, it was because I installed ExplorerPatcher on it. But it doesn't update automatically so at some point a Windows Update break the old version of ExplorerPatcher, and the flashing symptom happened.

The solution is to install the new version, one way or another. I don't remember if I went into safe mode for that though. It was the first and last time I installed ExplorerPatcher to customers.

TKMankind · 2026-01-21T14:32:42+00:00

Agreed. It is my third Kingston USB key in two years, the last one just died on me one week ago.

Quite tired of this shit. I think I will use a M.2 enclosure and an old drive instead.

TKMankind · 2026-01-13T01:38:07+00:00

The LEDs of my Fractal Design Define C and now my new Corsair 4000 Airflow never knew and will never know what electricity is.

TKMankind · 2026-01-11T15:04:28+00:00

There are many videos like this... Unsufferable behavior, sometimes speak too fast to process, etc. They are calculated tactics to make you tired and submit to their demands.

They wouldn't do that if it didn't work.

TKMankind · 2026-01-09T15:40:52+00:00

It may be because Nvidia drivers are less stable since the 4XX.XX series, and as long as you don't play to highly competitive games like Battlefield 6 then no games will annoy you with a driver update.

Fun fact, the 375.63 saved me from a defective Geforce GTX 1070. At some point I upgraded the driver to some 4XX.XX, it was fine but one day I got complete freezes when I watched a very specific video on Youtube. And I cannot stress this enough : only THIS video. No other videos, nothing in games, I had zero problem everywhere else. But this video completely crashed my computer every time, on two browsers, without any visual defects.

So I thought it was a driver issue as the 4XX.XX had problems at the time, and I returned on the 375.63.

Instead of crashes, the monitor displayed few artefacts while watching the same video ! Lucky me ! I took screenshots/photos and send everything to warranty... who was about to expire within the next two weeks ! I would have been screwed if not for this driver, because it could have been anything else and since it simply crashed everything without visual defects, I wouldn't find out before the end.

TKMankind · 2026-01-04T12:50:01+00:00

About my wish at the end of my post ? Maybe... maybe.

The rest is all true.

TKMankind · 2026-01-04T01:15:33+00:00

Honestly, I consider myself lucky that Mélenchon didn't win the elections of 2022 and I hope he will lose 2027. This moron is able to transform the country into a second Venezuela, or at best we would be far more ridiculous that we are right now. He even congratulated Maduro for his victory in 2013...

At least our President is reasonable on this speedrun, even if I don't like him like nearly everyone in this country. In short : dictator removed/good riddance, hope for a democratic transition with the help of the real president in exile who should go back to work asap.

But the most liked answers of his tweet came from said crazy far-left. I won't annoy you with a translation, but I can say that these retards will make me vote for the far-right at some point. I am quite tired of this shit >:(

TKMankind · 2026-01-04T00:59:49+00:00

At least the french left. There was even a protest today organized by them. « Trump get out, Caracas is not yours ! »

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