AI computers aren’t selling because users don’t care

How did this thread blow up so much?

sometimes a thread breaks containment, the “all” algorithm feeds it to even more people, and we see that Lemmy really does replace Reddit

I am prepping my laptop to have it installed. I think Mint will be my distro.

Great Distro from what I hear. I made it easy for me to play Steam games quickly by installing Pop!Os. You can do the same things anyway on any Distro you pick. I just don’t mess with Arch. I don’t got time for that lol.

Fuck the ai os wave. Do not force that shit into my life. I’m fine with using ai, but ai is not gonna stare over my shoulder. I decide when I use it. Never going back from Linux. Still stuck with a samsung phone but we’ll see

I switched to GrapheneOS with zero regrets. Mainly because Google is deeply embeded in the Android ecosystem. There was no way i was going to add Samdung AI on top of that mess.

Nice. Mine is a work phone so I can’t switch sadly

Question, do your banking apps etc run ok in the sandbox?

I wanted grapheneOS but it is not compatible with my current cell phone.

Even if Microsoft, Apple, et al, drop the ‘inescapable integrated AI assistant’ bullshit in their OS’ it’s almost a guarantee that they will forever reside in some hidden background service quietly sending off reports. The temptation for them is too great, and the legal consequences are nil.

you are right… Linux for the win!

I have a Samsung and it doesnt have ai features (except for google but i can opt out of it)

Older phone? Bought mine last year and it shipped with ai integrated. It’s in search, image editing, it can even scan any part of the screen to tell what it is and do online searches around it. Pretty sure that thing is on even when I don’t ask it to do something

Nah just mid range phone not flagship from 2024

It’s not care. Its want. We don’t want AI.

FR I think more people actively dislike it, which is a form of care.

Depends on the implementation.

Just about everyone I know loves how iPhones can take a picture and readily identify a plant or animal. That’s actually delightful. Some AI tech is great.

Now put an LLM chatbox where people expect a search box, and see what happens… yeah that shit sucks.

loves how iPhones can take a picture and readily identify a plant or animal.

As I biologist I’d like to correct your sentence: “iPhones can take a picture and pretend to sometimes manage to get close to identifying a plant”

It sucks at identification too

Whenever I ask random people who are not on IT, they either don’t know about it or they love it.

That’s a boring perspective fuck you for sharing.

I work in IT and have recently been having a lot of fun leveraging AI in my home lab to program things as well as doing audio\video generation (which is a blast honestly.) So… I mean, I think it really depends on how it’s integrated and used.

Thats an interesting perspective thanks for sharing.

These “AI Computers” are a solution looking for a problem. The marketing people naming these “AI” computers think that AI is just some magic fairy dust term you can add to a product and it will increase demand.

What’s the “killer features” of these new laptops, and what % price increase is it worth?

What’s the “killer features” of these new laptops

LLM

and what % price increase is it worth?

negative eighty, tops

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here’s the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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