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Rather than force people into all new hardware, because they were greedy and that didn't work, Cheap $50 NPU cards need to start coming out with 100's of TOPS. Right now the only option is at least $1,000+ and that isn't going to fly.

bogzz•4mo ago

for the laptops to do what?

downrightmike•4mo ago

Exactly, we won't have anything useful until the masses get to use it. Its like sound blaster or GPUs in the early days, you didn't need one, but once they became common, we got more software and use out of them.

roscas•4mo ago

I need AI on my Windows notepad.exe. Also full AI on calc.exe and mostly my critical need is on my solitaire.exe.

vincent-manis•4mo ago

I am very grateful to the Linux folks for including Copilot key support in recent kernels, that way you can remap the key to something useful.

1718627440•4mo ago

Which key does it correspond to? Is it AltGr or the context menu? Or is it a truly novel key?

vincent-manis•4mo ago

F23, in kernels 6.14 and later. You can use standard tools for your environment to bind that to whatever you like.

1718627440•4mo ago

So the keyboards expose it as a separate key?

vincent-manis•4mo ago

By default, the key emits a hitherto unused scancode, 0x6E. Windows maps this to something like `Left Shift+Super+F23', and then allows the user to define a suitable shortcut. For reasons I don't understand, remapping this combo is unreliable in Linux. So the newer kernels emit a plain F23 code, which can be easily remapped. For an older keyboard with no Copilot key, this is all a non-issue. (There are relatively few keyboards nowadays with physical F13 thru F24 keys, though once upon a time they weren't uncommon, so F23 is a suitable choice here.)

hulitu•4mo ago

They are "empowering the future profits" of Microsoft.