How did this thread blow up so much?
this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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sometimes a thread breaks containment, the "all" algorithm feeds it to even more people, and we see that Lemmy really does replace Reddit
Year of Linux
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.
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!
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
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
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
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