Discussion
Microsoft renamed the whole Office suite to Copilot. 🤣
Please bear in mind that calling "AI" output "slop" makes Satya Nadella sad. Under no circumstances should you call their office suite "Microslop Slopilot". That would just be mean and you're better than that.
*) Copilot might not be your favorite app.
It's not AI slop! That makes Microsoft's CEO sad.
Instead, call it Nadella. (Or Nadella Bukkake if you're feeling rude.) He'd appreciate being recognized as its promoter!
@rysiek I tried to start a Nextcloud instance, but was able to run only certain services - no luck with the office suite and Talk app unfortunately.
It is difficult to ditch MS services if you need online cooperation
@filiplachert that's true, and part of the reason for that is all the ways Big Tech was able to create friction for anyone who doesn't want to use their software their way.
Not sure what you tried, but I know Hetzner and other providers have some managed Nextcloud products that are solid. I'd need to check about the office suite and Talk in them, though.
I'd love more communities – hackerspaces, for example, or communities built around fedi instances – to provide well configured Nextcloud.
@rysiek the managed solutions are prohibetely expensive (ie. More expensive than commercial solutions) I spent a weekend trying to set up an instance on cal.pl - they prepare the basic setup, I managed to get storage, email and some basic services up and running. But with the office suite and Talk - no luck.
@filiplachert yeah, I am not saying the situation is great – far from it. It will work for some, but not for everyone at this stage. But I think it's important you tried.
Bad words (in Italian)
@rysiek
I'll continue to call it Co-pirla. Way nicer, in Italian.
_ https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirla
- (rough translation) https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/italian-english/pirla
@rysiek
"Slop 365" also has a nice ring to it.
@rysiek
... and when the LLM-bubble eventually bursts: NOpilot.
@rysiek
Talking about that Copilot, that's sloping around on GitHub? 😂🤣
Fuck, they are all doomed.😂🤣
@rysiek
… love that nick „Microslop Slopilot“!
@rysiek Make it stop. Please. As if MS wasn't already just completely effed to have to deal with, now this??!?! They sure put the work in work.
@rysiek did you mean Slopia Slopdella? The Slop slopperating sloppicer of Sloproslop?
@rysiek
Slop
slop
slop
slop
slop
slop
Slopilot
Slopty slop, wonderful slop!
@rysiek @trendytoots Back in the 1980s, the then owners of the Jack in the Box fast food chain worked up a new sandwich which had Monterey Jack cheese. They called it the Monterey Jack and in their excitement, perhaps bolstered by positive focus group response, there were reports they were going the change the name of the whole chain to Monterey Jack.
The sandwich came. It was okay. They didn’t change the name of the chain. The sandwich left the menu.
So, Copilot, not Office. La de da.
a rose by any other name is still AI slop...
Install bonfire.cafe
Get the full app experience
@rysiek It's been really frustrating as an IT professional working for an organization that uses a Microsoft stack to constantly change our links, shortcuts, etc., to evade Microsoft's increasing attempts to point everything at Copilot. We used to be able to tell users to just go to Microsoft365.com to access their e-mail / documents / etc., online, but now, even though you still CAN do that, it's almost impossible to find as they turn the whole site into a giant Copilot input field and partition the other (much more useful) apps into submenus and further submenus.