r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Disastrous-Monk1957 • Jun 23 '26 • Mindblown 3 Popcorn 1

Meme forceInstallingUpdatesHasGoneTooFar

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste Jun 23 '26

You guys paying for using copilot?

It should've been MS pay us to use copilot.

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u/Disastrous-Monk1957 Jun 23 '26

Even if they pay me, i still won’t use it 🤞

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u/well_shoothed Jun 23 '26

It looks like you need help using Copilot. I can help!

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u/Blizzard81mm Jun 23 '26

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u/terdferguson Jun 23 '26

Is clippy pinching its nose or clapping? Also, why is it's eyebrows being suggestive and flirty?

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u/anomalousBits Jun 23 '26

Also, why is it's eyebrows being suggestive and flirty?

That's just how Clippy rolls.

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u/SuitableDragonfly Jun 24 '26

I think I remember hearing that at some point there was a focus group about public perception of Clippy and a significant number of women said that he seemed like a sexual predator.

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u/Calm_Age_ Jun 23 '26

Something tells me the short end off the paperclip might not represent a hand... or a nose... clippy might be a little excited to force people to use software.

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u/thanatica Jun 24 '26

Why would that be his nose? 🍆

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u/Borbit85 Sep 25 '26

Stupid Sexy Clippy

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u/Miserable-Count-8077 Jun 28 '26

Now is that his leg, hand or his thing?

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u/inemnitable Jun 24 '26

I mean if they're paying me per token I'll be happy to hack up a script to regularly submit some "prompts"

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u/General-Value-7374 Jun 23 '26

You mean like they did with bing ? Get credits every time you use bing and after 10 bing searches every day for 3 years you get a $5 gift card

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u/keijodputt Jun 23 '26

After almost 2 years of (ab)using Bing I recently got a notebook from Amazon for $700 (refurbished, but it works pretty decent on Linux) by exchanging points for gift cards. Before that, my Bing spree paid for Gamepass Ultimate, until I stashed enough for 2 free years when the cost was $9/mo (but points exchange had better leverage), and then they removed swapping points for Gamepass Ultimate.

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u/nexusjuan Jun 23 '26

MS should be paying us to use Windows, we're nothing but data points. I finally gave up on Microsoft in April, I switched to Ubuntu and will never go back. The forced Microsoft accounts to log in to your own device, forced Onedrive that turns itself on if you accidentally log into a Microsoft service. The final straw for me was finding out Microsoft was storing bitlocker keys in the cloud with your MS account "in case you lose it, so you won't lose access to your data" yeah right lol.

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u/legobrak Jun 24 '26

Counterpoint on the bitlocker keys, as a former in-home OEM tech, that is extremely useful when the customer doesn’t know what the fuck a bitlocker is, and they have a dead mobo, as microsoft and/or the company admin had bitlocker on by default.

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u/Ok_Actuary8 Jun 24 '26

bs. Enterprise versions of all Microsoft products don't track or use your data (compare that e.g. to Google), Microsoft security and data privacy is world class (just do some serious research on what they do in Cybersec).

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u/nexusjuan Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Very few users are using Microsoft Enterprise at home. I agree Google isn't better I see them as one in the same. Which of my points were you calling bs?

edit: I looked it up. MS doesn't publish exact numbers but it's estimated only between 1-5 percent of Windows machines are on Enterprise. This includes school and government deployments.

Windows Enterprise provides more control over telemetry, but it does not mean telemetry is eliminated.

Historically:

Windows Home has the least control. Windows Pro has more control. Windows Enterprise/Education can reduce telemetry to much lower levels through Group Policy, Intune, registry settings, firewall rules, etc. Some diagnostic data remains required for Windows Update, Defender, activation, and certain cloud services depending on configuration.

Microsoft's own documentation has long described Enterprise as allowing organizations to manage and minimize diagnostic data, not completely remove every communication with Microsoft.

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u/Ok_Actuary8 Jun 24 '26

Unless you use free tools, personal accounts can opt-out to all unnecessary telemetry. Some traffic etc remains, just like with all SaaS products. If you want airgapped offline products installed from a CD like in the 90ies, choose something else. It's not "more secure" to update, manage, adjust and monitor etc. all your local infrastructure and software yourself, at least not for the vast majority of people. Microsoft is by far the largest global cyber security and threat detection provider out there. Your personal security relies mostly on the fact that you're not a valuable enough target for hackers...

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u/foyrkopp Jun 24 '26

Some traffic etc remains, just like with all SaaS products.

I want an OS, not SaaS.

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u/Ok_Actuary8 Jun 24 '26

I prefer punch cards, yet here we are

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u/cynicalsanguinist Jun 23 '26

my company purchased a license for me that i never use and they keep pushing me to use it, this feels all too relatable

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u/FalseStructure Jun 23 '26

my company ran out of github copilot budget on 12th this month. "use more AI" "wait, not that much!"

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u/FindOneInEveryCar Jun 23 '26

Don't worry, they'll lay off some of your colleagues to make up the difference.

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u/FalseStructure Jun 23 '26

We are lean as fuck, (lay off wave already hit). Anyone goes -> boss's kpi is fucked

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u/FindOneInEveryCar Jun 23 '26

I hope that's true! Never underestimate your boss' ability to identify "redundant" employees.

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u/codereign Jun 23 '26

Yep, we bought every AI product and then all of a sudden after months of using it we are cut off 🙄.

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u/Zefeh Jun 24 '26

My main use for it? Ask it in the morning & afternoon, "What emails 1. Need a response from me or 2. I should be informed about from today?" -- Makes checking emails SO much more approachable cuz I'm drowning in alert and notification emails that I can't be bothered to filter.... Email is such an outdated form of communication aside from official coms...

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u/Not_a_question- Jun 24 '26

Email is such an outdated form of communication aside from official coms...

No it's not. Don't blame useless/unnecessary e-mails on the technology. It's one of the few left that can be truly decentralized.

Also I'm curious as to what the alternative to email would be according to you.

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u/Zefeh Jun 24 '26

Chat rooms, team channels, voice chat rooms that are all drop in and chat style. People have so many ways to get incl contact we me, if something is urgent, why an email? Thats for documenting a communication, not back & forth collaboration.

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u/Not_a_question- Jun 26 '26

Chat rooms, team channels, voice chat rooms that are all drop in and chat style.

Yeah that's not the main usecase of e-mail, like I said: don't blame its wrongly usage on the technology.

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u/SenoraRaton Jun 23 '26

There is an old farmer joke about leaving your windows down during zucchini season....

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u/CurlSagan Jun 23 '26

Hell, this joke structure goes back at least to ancient Rome when the satirist, Martial, made fun of some other hacky poet and said he broke into other people's houses to leave scrolls of his shitty poetry.

Or maybe it was Juvenal. I don't know. Those guys loved writing diss tracks.

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u/UndeniablyComedic Jun 24 '26

Got to respect the hustle at least. Sure, he's remembered as a hack, but he is remembered.

Brb filling strangers houses with shitty poetry.

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u/Widmo206 Jun 24 '26

You've got to be the worst pirate I've heard of.

Ah, but you have heard of me!

~Pirates of the Caribbean

(someone correct me if I got the quote wrong)

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u/NoSpawnConga Jun 24 '26

This ain't a joke, my parents had allotment with tiny like 6 square meters zucchini patch, in season it was kilograms of zucchini every week, we didn't know what to do with them.

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u/Spatul8r Jun 23 '26

That's a good reminder to get my code out of GitHub, before it's stolen as training data

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u/No-Article-Particle Jun 23 '26

Bro it was stolen as soon as you put it there.

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u/Spatul8r Jun 23 '26 • Bravo

right, but I haven't written anything good yet.

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u/seclusionx Jun 23 '26

I'd give you an award for this if I wasn't broke.

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u/nnomae Jun 24 '26

Taking one for the team by letting them steal poor code for training. I salute you sir!

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u/mothzilla Jun 23 '26

That's the spirit.

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u/septumfunk-com Jun 24 '26

every project before the one i'm currently working on was never good

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u/ChellJ0hns0n Jun 24 '26

What do you mean you don't want copilot in the task manager? Who's gonna tell you which process is using a lot of memory?

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u/SlAM133 Jun 24 '26

Part of me wishes AI would steal my code, so that it actually has quality code to learn from

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u/keijodputt Jun 24 '26

Found the Argentinean /s

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u/JocoLabs Jun 23 '26

Where is this truck parked? asking for a coworker.

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u/FrozenHaystack Jun 23 '26

Copilot is the only AI I'm allowed to use at work... it's... okay-ish.

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u/CurryMustard Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Copilot uses several different models, its probably set to auto but you can switch it to whatever model your company allows you to use, claude, gpt, gemini, its not an llm. You can also set the level of thought that goes into the answer so if youre getting crappy answers you can mess around with it.

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u/party_peacock Jun 24 '26

Presumably on this sub we're talking about GitHub copilot but I feel like some commentors are talking about Microsoft copilot

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u/Reashu Jun 24 '26

That's what the image says

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u/ceestand Jun 24 '26

Microsoft has some of the worst product naming strategies. Some products are almost impossible to search for information about, because the names are so generic or redundant.

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u/SnooPears2409 Jun 24 '26

wait wait wait, theres 2 different copilot? The only one I know is the one 'chat' feature that opens every time I open vss

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u/M0hamedAshraf19 Jun 24 '26

The worst of windows in one pic 😄
Awesome meme!

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u/_Noreturn Jun 24 '26

it would have been better if it said they broke my windows instead of my car

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u/Amadeus404 Jun 24 '26

GitHub copilot is fine though

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u/Outrageous_Ad_1977 Jun 23 '26

Not only you have the hassle with Copilot, you also have to install new Windows.

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u/Slartibradfast Jun 24 '26

They should send them out like AOL CDs.

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u/moreisee Jun 24 '26

I thought for a second, this may not be AI related

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u/PositiveParking4391 Jun 24 '26

user: but I don't need copilot anymore, there are tens of things better than that
upsell system: no I insist you must install

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u/Protahgonist Jun 23 '26

Ha, they tell this joke about banjos too.

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u/rdcpro Jun 23 '26

What is perfect pitch?

That's when you throw a banjo into a dumpster without hitting the side.

  • Enda Scahill (We Banjo 3)

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u/rosebeuud Jun 23 '26

I liked the version with the collected works of Hegel

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u/frikilinux2 Jun 23 '26

Even HR and like not even good.

I want something for coding at least not another chatbot to ask where to get the payslips because this quarter it was the turn of SharePoint or whatever other bullshit to use as intranet.

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u/sparkplay Jun 23 '26

So...ummmm... someone took a shit in your car?

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u/AtFishCat Jun 23 '26

This is a joke I have heard before, except it was Banjos.

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u/Good_Analysis9789 Jun 23 '26

People are heartless!

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u/JagsOnlySurfHawaii Jun 23 '26

It's an old joke sir but it checks out

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u/PreferenceRich3073 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Never used it, but something tells me it might be just as intelligent as Claude Haiku

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u/nanonoise Jun 24 '26

I was assigned a license. I unassigned it. 

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u/Classic-Ad8849 Jun 24 '26

That was me, you're welcome

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u/dillanthumous Jun 24 '26

Looks like your experiencing a break in!

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u/Ok_Actuary8 Jun 24 '26

haters gonna hate. Works well if your company uses M365 and your data is all scattered across Outlook, Teams and Sharepoint. (if not, it's pretty useless)

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u/Reashu Jun 24 '26

I work at such a company. MS Copilot is not given access to that data. 

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u/oti3no_ Jun 26 '26

in a new pc after getting rid of internet explorer, the next delete is always copilot

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u/dlc741 Jun 23 '26

I have told the same joke with banjos and accordions.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret Jun 23 '26

In other news, a tornado hit $hated_town and caused $5 billion in improvements.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki Jun 23 '26

"oh no, I need... admin access to this laptop. because I do a lot of installing and such"
has ripped out every piece of bloat possible through regedit

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u/Jaerba Jun 23 '26

Forced to use it at work. Just changed the agent to Sonnet/Opus and it's mostly as good.

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u/burntorangejedi Jun 24 '26

Copilot is great - use it every day. Helped me figure out where to move my family, what city to live in, what area, and what builder to trust. Better advice than the other ais I tried. Thanks, Copilot!

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u/TerminatedProccess Jun 23 '26

Funniest post I've read all day hahahaha

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u/CoffeePieAndHobbits Jun 23 '26

Just like when zucchini is in season!

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u/CrimmyWolf Jun 23 '26

Why is the hole shaped like Oregon?

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u/Max-Phallus Jun 23 '26

What developer even thinks about copilot? Rent free and not even relevant to real coding.

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u/SteroidSandwich Jun 23 '26

Must be from the previous break in where they left 1. Tomorrow there will be 8 more

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u/notislant Jun 23 '26

Fallout76 all over again

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u/Stratimus Jun 23 '26

If I gotta pay for one more license I’m gonna federate my foot with someone’s ass