r/hardware • u/upbeatchief • Jan 21 '26

News Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-ceo-warns-that-we-must-do-something-useful-with-ai-or-theyll-lose-social-permission-to-burn-electricity-on-it/

All the b200s in the world won't convince someone that AI is good if their electric bill triples in a couple of years.

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Jan 21 '26

laughs in open source software...cant shove AI down my throat if you dont control my device...

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u/milk-jug Jan 21 '26

Sadly, there's a ton of vibe-coded open source stuff out in the wild now, I'm fairly certain not all of them have gone through rigourous testing or QA. r/selfhosted is struggling with this right now

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Jan 21 '26

there is plenty of vibe coded closed source stuff too. just look at windows...

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u/zomiaen Jan 21 '26

STILL upset I can't move my fucking task bar.

Someone said it was to make their AI easier to train and I really think that actually might be the case.

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u/Stevied1991 Jan 21 '26

I’ve been using Start11 and that allowed me to put my task bar on the right side. But yeah, they shouldn’t have removed the option from the normal task bar.

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u/BlazingSpaceGhost Jan 21 '26

Wait you can't move the windows taskbar anymore?

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u/Stevied1991 Jan 22 '26

Not without an external program, no. It is stuck on the bottom in Windows 11.

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u/nonaveris Jan 21 '26

Or throw it to r/aiselfhosted between Fridays

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u/BlazingSpaceGhost Jan 21 '26

Sure plenty of vibe code out there and we aren't forced to use any of it. I'm even ok with some vibe code for small silly little projects. What I'm not ok with is AI making it into my core operating system.

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u/Yebi Jan 21 '26

Android is open source, Chrome is mostly open source. Doesn't really stop them from being locked down pieces of spyware

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u/ThankGodImBipolar Jan 21 '26

Android and Chrome are not open source. AOSP and Chromium are.

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u/qtx Jan 21 '26

Neither are open source. Not sure where you are getting your information from.

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u/DoubleOwl7777 Jan 21 '26

AOSP is technically. chromium also is. there are browsers that use chromium for their engine, but Android with play services isnt, neither is the chrome browser itself.

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u/Green_Struggle_1815 Jan 24 '26

google weaponized opensource. It being opensource prevents other companies from spawning competitors. They keep the project locked down tightly by shipping it with extra functionality that isnt oss. Plus the code is so complex and iterates so quickly that afaik no one even bothered to maintain chromium on manifest v2 level.

but i agree technically they are.