What is hell is intuit doing telling me I have to upgrade to Win 11, I don't want that POS, they said it's for security, That's OK, i'll take my chances with Win 10.

[M-MTax]

TurboTax users can link their Intuit accounts to ChatGPT, and take tax or financial actions in a secure fashion. ChatGPT can then guide those customers through tasks tied to their TurboTax filings or financial profile without ever accessing the underlying documents. The experience will run inside ChatGPT.

As part of the partnership, users will be able to authorize Intuit to pull the right data and return tailored results, like estimating a tax refund, finding the right credit card, or generating QuickBooks insights off real-time business activity.

Privacy is of particular importance when it involves financial data. A user’s information will stay inside Intuit’s ecosystem, even when accessed through ChatGPT.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/intuit-pays-openai-100-million-turbotax-integrates-chatgpt.html

[skramblr]

"TurboTax users can link their Intuit accounts to ChatGPT"
This seems obvious, but this seems like the most unsecure and dumb thing users can do. Just google if ChatGPT is secure and... yah, its a bad idea.

[M-MTax]

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@skramblr wrote:

"TurboTax users can link their Intuit accounts to ChatGPT"
This seems obvious, but this seems like the most unsecure and dumb thing users can do. Just google if ChatGPT is secure and... yah, its a bad idea.

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Understood, but the operative words are "can link". Clearly, it is not mandatory at this point.

[JohnQT]

Shall we take bets at to whether that "Link to ChatGPT and help us train our AI model" checkbox is checked by default?  😋

[JohnQT]

@dhayman I can't imagine what your reason is for needing VirtualBox version 5.2 specifically, but I know that the v6.x release had "working" compatibility with Hyper-V, and v7.x has mostly ironed out the kinks.  In any case "working" leaves much to be desired, as VirtualBox uses the Hyper-V hypervisor if it's enabled on your PC, and VirtualBox running on top of Hyper-V is painfully slow.  In fact, the CPU icon in the VM status bar will change from a blue rectangular "V" icon to a green "sea turtle" icon when the VM is using the Hyper-V hypervisor, and yes it's slow as a turtle.

To allow VirtualBox to use it's own hypervisor (a much speedier experience) you'll need to take extra steps to prevent Hyper-V from getting in the way.  Which steps to take depend on whether or not you've explicitly installed and enabled certain Hyper-V components in Windows, and also if the (default) DeviceGuard settings are enabled.  This link does a fairly decent job of laying out all the places to look and things to do, however if you search "VirtualBox green turtle" you'll find a lot of pages that focus on specific suggestions: https://superuser.com/questions/1778061/green-turtle-snail-mode-slow-performance-indicator-on-virtua...

And yeah, ChatGPT is a big little liar.  Just wait until it gets ahold of all our tax returns claiming exemptions for pets.  😹

[dhayman]

@JohnQT, not getting into gory details, but I use Virtaluslbox 5.2 to run a Windows 2000 VM running an ancient web server. There is incompatibility when I move to 6.x or 7.x. Since 5.2 doesn’t support Windows 11, I was hoping that a concurrent Hyper-V would allow me to run TT on my W10 machine.

[M-MTax]

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@JohnQT wrote:

And yeah, ChatGPT is a big little liar.  Just wait until it gets ahold of all our tax returns claiming exemptions for pets.  😹

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They'd be better off with Claude. 😉

[M-MTax]

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@JohnQT wrote:

Shall we take bets at to whether that "Link to ChatGPT and help us train our AI model" checkbox is checked by default?  😋

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We'd both be on the same side of that bet. 😉