My non Linux savvy spouse is currently dual booting Linux Mint because Windows has become so frustrating to use.
Mint isn’t perfect. We’ve run into a few bugs and shortcomings. But there’s a big difference between dealing with genuine issues in an OS and using one that feels actively hostile and designed to exploit the user.
If both experiences can be frustrating, why choose the one that’s frustrating by design (unless you absolutely have to) ?
I’ve used Linux for a decade now and windows is so much more buggy and shortcoming. Including new bugs.
Instead they made me addicted to Linux.
do you really wanna be admitting that addiction is your goal?
A $6 Million Jury Verdict Ruled Social Media Is Addictive.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/03/30/a-6-million-jury-verdict-ruled-social-media-is-addictive-now-what/That kind of fine is a pittance.
true. but this one wasn’t a class action, either… just one plaintiff.
I will never EVER give an AI agency over any of my personal accounts.
You are not the target audience.
Oh we’re the target, just not the customer.
Someone else has probably already done that for you.
If they want people addicted to an AI, it’s going to have to be a lot better than fucking Copilot.
As slop generators go, it’s about the sloppiest.
Maybe their target audience are masochists?
Well, as a Windows user I can see the appeal
We’re going to MAKE people ADDICTED by
making a REALLY Good Product!SOLVING annoying Problems!TREATING Customers respectfully!FORCING ourselves Onto people like Donald Trump on Little Girls!Hahahaha suck it, Microslop. I look forward to your Chapter 11 filing.
Yeah, we know
Duh. I wouldn’t have called it “addiction”, but dependency was clearly the goal, otherwise they wouldn’t take away classical search.
I thought that was obvious from the start.
Did they try making it good?
That’s the beauty of it (from their viewpoint), they don’t have to make it good, just unavoidable.
yes, good at self-destructing.
Create a captive audience through monopoly or near monopoly on a given market, then charge them more for a worse version of the product, reducing costs and maximizing profits, it’s always been the goal with corporate capitalism, look at the whole Copilot and GitHub situation right now.
Legitimately most modern games or all of social media.
No shit, Sherlock.
And people would actually happily get addicted to an AI assistant which is reliable, safe, capable, kind, and fast.
They really should try making a great product. Then they don’t need any tricks. People love great products.And local and under your control. As a “second brain” that isn’t sentient but intelligent to assist you AI has great potential. In a few years we’ll probably have the models and new hardware to run good enough models locally on cheap enough hardware.
But by then they’ll have drummed enough support for “muh copyright” to buy legislation for AI licensing and make all AI models have to pay a license fee to… “someone”. Like that poor writer who had his work illegally read by an AI. So then no open source models can exist and they have the monopoly. Big win for the little guy lol.
The answer to “copyright” overreach is just piracy. I can play pirated games, watch pirated movies, listen to pirated music… Of course, I will be able to just use a pirated model locally. Or I can just use a Chinese or Russian one - they can speak English just fine.
Oh they’re making me addicted alright. I can’t stop installing Linux on things. Its like a new vice for my devices
At least they’re honest (internally) about their intentions. Obviously this is also the goal of the other big AI foundries; it either already is or it will be in the future.
Luckily Microsoft is famously bad at this, but Google and perhaps OpenAI will be more successful. We’re still in the subsidized honeymoon phase, but this window is closing with the increasing pressure to return profit.
As a skeptic, I’m not worried about myself, but I’m scared for the people who will get addicted and then ruined by full prices or devastated when their mind drug is taken away again.
seems like google and OPENAI have the same problems, just as a slower decline. google trying to force gemini into all thier services. anthropoic isnt doing any better either.
Agreed, but I give Google a better chance with Google, Android & Gemini to actualy make an “addicting” chatbot.
