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I am so tired of Microsoft cramming Copilot into everything. Search at $dayjob is completely borked right now. It shows a page of results, but the immediately pops up some warning dialog you cannot dismiss that Copilot can’t access some file “” or something. Every VSCode update I feel like I have to turn off Copilot in some new way. And now apparently it’ll be added to Excel as well. Thankfully I don’t have to use anything from Microsoft after work hours.

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> Every VSCode update I feel like I have to turn off Copilot in some new way.

This has genuinely made me work on switching to neovim. I previously demurred because I don't trust supply chains that are random public git repos full of emojis and Discords, but we've reached the point now where they're no less trustworthy than Microsoft. (And realistically, if you use any extensions on VS Code you're already trusting random repos, so you might as well cut out the middle man with an AI + spyware addiction and difficulties understanding consent.)

Same. Actually made me switch to neovim more and more. It's a great time to do so, with the new native package manager (now working in nightly 0.12)

There is an actively maintained VSCode fork without all the Microsoft features. https://vscodium.com/

RE: VSCode copilot, you're not crazy, I'm seeing it too. And across multiple machines, even with settings sync enabled, I have to periodically go on each one and uninstall the copilot extension _again_. I'll notice the Add to chat... in the right click context menu and immediately know it got reinstalled somehow.

I'd switch to VSCodium but I use the WSL and SSH extensions :(

Thankfully I don’t have to use anything from Microsoft after work hours.

There are employers where you don't have to use anything from Microsoft during work hours either.

Everything except the best thing they could have brought back: Clippy! </3

So Louis Rossmann put out a YouTube video encouraging internet users to change their profile pictures to an image of Clippy, as a form of silent protest against unethical conduct by technology companies, so it's making a comeback!

The coercion will continue until metrics improve.

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