What is even the point of an AI coprocessor for an end user (excluding ML devs)? Most of the AI features run in the cloud and even if they could run locally, companies are very happy to ask you rent for services and keep you vendor locked in.
Please stop shoving ai into everything,please give us opt out from AI icons and stuff /srs
even better: opt-in, over opt-out
none of these fuckers want to go for that, because it’d make their darling shitpile look oh so bad
but it’s also a stark thing: ~20y ago tech actually asked first, and (mostly) fucked off if you told it to
the way a lot of tech companies approach consent (and how users have been primed following that) right now is some mad toxic fucked up bullshit
Yep
What the hell is an AI computer? Like one with a beefy GPU?
“coprocessors, but matrix-math specific”
the various *PUs are “things that help a lot of ML models run faster” sidecar chipset designs
it’s actually kinda hard to get concrete details, afaict. I’ve had a bit of a look around for silicon teardowns and shit, and haven’t really found any good ones yet
I bet they’re not even special, just normal computers with some low-power AI soft and a chunky price tag to match the hardware they totally sport.
nah, there’s definitely an actual something there - there’s concrete actual physical extra silicon, with a design and a (marketing?) purpose
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?
Year of Linux
I am prepping my laptop to have it installed. I think Mint will be my distro.
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 have a Samsung and it doesnt have ai features (except for google but i can opt out of it)
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.
Question, do your banking apps etc run ok in the sandbox?
I wanted grapheneOS but it is not compatible with my current cell phone.
Same
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!
Hell yeah
It’s not care. Its want. We don’t want AI.
Speak for yourself.
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
Hotdog or not hotdog
Whenever I ask random people who are not on IT, they either don’t know about it or they love it.
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.
“I work in IT” says the rando, rapaciously switching between support tickets in their web browser and their shadow-IT personal browser
“I’ve been having a lot of fun” continues the rando, in a picture-perfect replica of every other fucking promptfan posting the same selfish egoist bullshit
“So… I mean, I think it really depends on how it’s integrated and used” says thee fuckwit, who can’t think two words beyond their own fucking nose
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mmmm, yes, being told what I don’t know… oh yes, that’s the stuff. best kind of thing to read after the kind of week I’ve had!
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look, I’ll do you the disfavour of giving you an actually detailed reply
you know exactly fucking nothing about me, about what I do, and about my competencies. if you did just a liiiiiiittle bit of work you might get an inkling, but: I know you didn’t, and I know you don’t.
that’s not a judgement, that’s just fact.
trying to flippantly rage at my derision of your shitty post… I mean, points for effort? but… be more interesting…? you’re factory-line-identical outrage, and it’s boring
para (2): sure, I made some inferred guesses. still don’t think I’m wrong (and your little tagline ragefest there isn’t helping, either)
paras (1) and (3): I lul. once again, if you knew anything about me…
but sure, go off queen. I’m sure your emanated bilge will be received with vim and verve.
That’s a boring perspective fuck you for sharing.
Thats an interesting perspective thanks for sharing.
Do they care? No! Will they push more AI? Yes! Will they listen to the consumers? I don’t think so.
Same thing happens with lot of products over the years. Companies push new stuff that we don’t want, and a year later becomes a regular thing! They push AI day by day, from websites AI chat help to in app AI assistant. Do consumers like it? No, but still you gonna find it everywhere! and now they push it in computers and looks what it happens! No sales!Call me crazy, but at some point, they need to look at their data or their consumers and do the right thing.
It’s maddening that they did actually take away the headphone jack from all modern phones and there’s nothing we can do about it even though it objectively sucks
You can still buy phones with a headphone jack. It’s just that most people buy the one without because most people have a wireless headset they use with the phone.
It’s SUPER simple: if something new comes along and sells, it will become the standard. If it doesn’t sell, it won’t.
Removing the headphone jack allowed manufacturers to make phones thinner/lighter/cheaper/whatever and people didn’t vote against it, therefore it stays.
most, Sony still has them
But there’s no space on the new thin phones.
STFU yes there is. Gimme my 3.5mm.
“The perfect size of the screen is ((3.5 + (year - 2010) * 0.5)) inches.”
STFU. Make phones small like iPhone 4 again.
Does anyone sell a case with a built-in USB DAC and 3.5mm jack?
there’s nothing we can do about it
Outright rejection of their shit, I won’t buy new smartphones from them. Currently using a dumbphone although the case is breaking and they don’t make this one any more. Nokia could work but costs quite a bit tbh. Getting rid of the phone entirely is tempting.
If I ever buy a smartphone again it will be the cheapest second hand thing I can find. Maybe don’t even take it out the house, it can stay at home like a landline and will be restricted to at most LAN connections only.
Microsoft pushing a feature that most users will never use or care about? Never!
Laughs in Window 8 optimized for touchscreens
It’s because they’re looking at data and a lot of you forget that. They don’t care if realistically everyone hates it if the data says everyone would use and benefit from it. Why is this so much more important? If you looked at the marketing behind AI they faked this entire industry by showing companies the “right” data to have them back them up but it’s just manipulation from the industry to make something profitable like NFTs.
I imagine it’s paying a premium for issue
AI on phones peaked with MS Contana on W10 mobile circa 2014. “Remind me to jack off when I’m home”. And it fucking did what i wanted. I didn’t even have to say words, i could type it into a text box… it also worked offline.
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it’s really weird that this turned into a tantrum where you tried to report other users for their jokes???
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Comment removed for being weird (derogatory). I refrained just barely from hitting the “ban from community” button on the slim chance it was a badly misfired joke from a person who can otherwise behave themself, but I won’t object if any other mod goes ahead with the banhammer.
I was vacillating on reply harshness, but “hey tell me when you’re home” … some people just need to get better with informed consent.
(agree that this probably wasn’t banworthy (yet), but close)
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wow, your posts really aren’t good
the fuck? please go be weird somewhere else
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Bad news for people who use google: they’ve removed the same feature, so their assistant is more useless than Cortana a decade ago (only a mild exaggeration)
Seriously missed an opportunity to being that back as their agent.
Legitimately though, Cortana was pretty great. There was a feature to help plan commutes (before I went more or less full remote), all it really did was watch traffic and adjust a suggest time to depart but it was pretty nice.
Say it every time someone mentions WP7/8/10, those lumia devices were fantastic and I totally miss mine, the 1020 had a fantastic camera on it, especially for the early 2010s
I loved my Lumia. I have the windows phone launcher on my phone currently haha
Imagine that, a new fledgingly technology hamfistedly inserted into every part of the user experience, while offering meager functionality in exchange for the most aggressive data privacy invasion ever attempted on this scale, and no one likes it.
I think people care.
They care so much they actively avoid them.
Reducing computer performance:
Turbo button 🤝 AI button
now that you mention it, kinda surprised I haven’t ever seen a spate of custom 3D-printed turbo buttons from overclocker circles
it could turn on the RGB! though that would imply that the RGB could be turned off in the first place, which is optimistic on my part
it’s the button for more RGB
saw a microphone with RGB and i’m like wtf is this thing supposed to do, flash disco lights when you’re on stream shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers
shouting slurs at your esteemed fellow gamers
They’re called “heated gaming moments” /j
reheated gaming moments
Fresh(?) off the PUBG Bridge
nah, just call a fuckwit a fuckwit. even jokingly giving them breathing room is something they know how to abuse.
Same issue from when we had turbo buttons: why have a button for something you don’t turn off?
your comment demonstrates a remarkable lack of imagination
Better option: An array of flip switches for throttling to different speeds.
Best option: Mount these flip switches above you on an overhead control panel.
And a clear lack of understanding of what the turbo button actually did
I thought it makes the game tick faster or slower, such that you have to have it set correctly or it’s unplayable.
Some early PC software, mostly games, were written expecting the computer ran at a fixed speed which was the speed of the original IBM PC which used an Intel 8088 that ran at 4.77 MHz. If the IBM PC was more like computers such as the Commodore 64 which changed little during its production run, that would have been fine. But eventually faster PC’s were released that ran on 286, 386, 486, etc. CPUs that were considerably faster and hence software that expected the original IBM PC hardware ran way too fast.
The turbo button was a bit of a misnomer since you would normally have it on and leave it on, only turning it off as sort of a compatibility mode to run older software. How effective it was varied quite a bit - some computers turning it off would get you pretty close to the original IBM PC in terms of speed, but others would just slow the computer down, but not nearly enough, making it mostly useless for what it was intended for.
Kind of, though it’s about the CPU’s clock speed rather than the details of the game.
So, pedantically? no.
Experientially? yes.
I had one on my PC in the late 90s, early 2000s.
Y’all remember when 3D TVs were going to be revolutionary?
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A friend of mine is a streamer. On his discord, the topic of the Switch 2 came up, and one of his fans stated their desire for it to support 3D TV. Rather than saying my gut reaction – “are you crazy?” – I simply asked why. I consider it a great moment of personal self control.
I mean the thought of big screen 3ds emulation would be pretty fun, but yeah that technology died a decade ago. Thats like asking why the Switch 2 doesn’t have a slot for SNES carts!
3D TVs I can see happening, if there’s some breakthrough that fixes the current tech shortcomings .
But NFTs, and blockchain in general? Hahahahhah.
To many separate components need to improve.
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Hardware. Right now, 3D TV’s require special glasses, or they only support a single viewer in a very narrow viewing range.
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Content. Movies made for 3D with depth effects are better than old shows remastered to have “pop out” effects. I saw Pacific Rim in Imax 3D and it was amazing. I also saw Nightmare Before Christmas remastered for 3 and it was fucking terrible.
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Infrastructure. Cable/Service providers need to provide services capable of streaming 3D movies consistently with solid performance.
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User acceptance. To me, the market is still prioritizing picture, sound, and frame rate over 3D effects. People just don’t care for it right now.
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Turned out all we needed was a higher frame rate.
