On youtube I see tons of avatars and mentions of clippy, the oldscool windows help tool. Are they protesting something?

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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      Which is super ironic because it’s a corporate mascot that managed to become universally hated by everyone. Then again, those were simpler times, so modern companies would deserve much more than mere hatred.

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        The irony is part of it, from what I can tell.

        That Clippy, the universally hated useless feature, is still less shitty than what these companies are doing today.

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        You could actually turn Clippy off as well. Copilot doesn’t really go away, and you can’t trust Microshaft to re-enable via updates. Out of the two I’d much prefer the maligned Clippy.

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          Unfortunately Clippy would get randomly re-enabled, like all microsoft zombies, after an update. You never knew when it would come back to insult your intelligence.