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Re:Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then ... by poly2it on Monday March 02, 2026 @08:58AM (#47218027)
Seriously? Does anybody know what Copilot is? I don't think I have ever seem a "Copilot user", so I don't know what it looks like. Is it the little macro key on new laptop keyboards? The chatbot you get in Bing? A technical philosophy? Or is it in essence just copilot.com, the mediocre chat interface which you used to get free GPT-4 three years ago?
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Re:Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then ... by mghackerlady on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:36AM (#47218467)
The copilot button isn't even a "button" in a traditional sense, it just maps to win+shift+f23
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Re:Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then ... by miriam_catira on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:52AM (#47219541)
I wish. I got a Dell laptop for work and they've replaced the right Ctrl key with a Copilot key, and (because it's a locked-down work sysyem) the only thing I can remap that to is the Windows menu. And I keep hitting it out of muscle memory, interrupting everything. But at least now it doesn't launch Copilot.

Which I could add is "the only AI approved for use by IT" because they hate us.

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Re:Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then ... by 3eb7988a1663 on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @02:20AM (#47229217)
Double check if the (hopefully not locked) BIOS gives an option to customize the CTRL key. I had a previous work laptop which also got cute with the CTRL button, but thankfully did let you remap it.
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Re:Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then ... by wolvoleo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @03:07AM (#47244542)
> Which I could add is "the only AI approved for use by IT" because they hate us.

It's the same at our place. It's basically the lowest effort way as we already have data agreements with Microsoft 365 it eliminates a lot of the paperwork. And they do promise that they won't train on data even in the free (well, included with basic M365) version for corporate users. A lot of others don't unless you pay.

It's too bad because it seems to be the worst AI around. Even compared to ChatGPT itself which uses the same model as copilot in MS Office. I don't really understand why there's such a difference. If you do pay the $30 it's a bit better especially the researcher.

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