That annoyed me with Windows too, however, Active Hours adjusted to the times that I actively used my PC. As I kept my PC up to date and never kept it running while not in use for too long, I’ve never been threatened with a forced restart randomly. That being said, a user should have full control over their PC. They will though in turn be responsible for any poor outcomes due to making poor decisions.

I ended up choosing a Linux distro over Windows because I have absolute control over my PC at all times. Freedom to modify, to potentially break, but also easily recover my distro if I truly fuck up.

I don’t mind the changes they are proposing for the Photos app; the current version annoys me as there is no way to sort photos by recent to older. For whatever reason, the oldest photos are on top while the most recent are in the bottom. It drives me mad, at the very least a proper chronological sorting option is very much appreciated. Everything else, I can adjust, since I don’t have a strong Apple Muscle Memory.

Until they can protect the hinge better, I wouldn’t be able to purchase one of these over a slab style phone. A grain of fine sand would ruin this phone’s life. I’m waiting on the time when foldable devices improve drastically enough for me to get one.

It is an old game, but The Fun Pimps have been working on it the whole time; the old console version was the only one that wasn’t getting updates because the studio that maintained it went under. It’s still surprising for me, even, that the 1.0 is releasing on July 25th.

I’ve been playing 7 Days to Die, the experimental 1.0! It’s been a fun but challenging experience. I’ve logged about 72 hours now (I had some play time before starting on the Experimental 1.0). I plan on playing Spirittea again on Xbox because they dropped the Fishing Update finally (Microsoft took their sweet time in evaluating the update).

Yikes, Taboola is the scummiest advertising company in my opinion! This is such an out of touch move, its likely making them a boat load of money (this is all they care about).

As LLMs haven’t been able to pass a Turing Test, I can’t quite let the ‘AI’ descriptor go unchallenged. It doesn’t sit right with me; I’m not comfortable with the intentional dishonesty that conflating LLMs with AI. However, I do understand your exhaustion with trying to correct that mistake.

As for the usage beyond spellchecking and grammar checking; it is up to an individual if they want to make more usage of it despite the ethical, privacy, and security concerns surrounding LLMs. I made my choice due to this, even that makes me feel occasionally uneasy. Making a decision with all the information is far better than falling for the hype surrounding LLMs at the moment.

If techbros weren’t trying to conflate LLMs with AI, I’d mostly have no issue with them. Still have concerns with the lack of security first and dubious means that are being implemented to gather data. LLMs are a useful spelling and grammar checking tool, so there are practical uses for them.

I wouldn’t yet use them for any other purpose until truly ethical practices are implemented. Also, the weird generative quirks are smoothed out.

Only the techbro shills, the executive class, and a few people who don’t know or care how the sausage is made want AI Bullshit. I want this AI bubble to not only burst, but also burn every techbro and make them shut up. Real AI is going to be a multi-discipline and multigenerational project that will take a lot of time and research to reify. This gassed up LLM bullshit is not it!

Damn, that’s lame! Domino’s used to be cheaper than Pizza Hut and decent pizza. I’d be annoyed too. If not for the sensitivity to food smells, you’d have saved money!

Thank goodness I switched to Apple before this nonsense got deployed; their Apple Intelligence is opt-in and not being forced on users. Google and Microsoft truly botched the deployment of their LLM experiments by forcing it into first party apps and not giving users a choice.

For the moment, they are simply better than the competition in regard to LLM ambitions. I got tired of Google being incompetent and not supporting an app/service for more than a few years. Google is chasing after a viral hit app without showing they could actually maintain it for more than longer than a year, at best. Apple is stable, they have a plan to keep their main services stable and useable! I switched to an iPhone last year, it’s a stable experience, if not a bit bland at times due to a lack of serious customization elements. Since moving away from Windows and going to Ubuntu, I even plan on getting a Mac Mini to manage my iPhone (since Linux doesn’t have those tools readily available). I don’t like Apple persay because I don’t trust any corporation, in a market with little choice; I chose them for the time being. When Linux phones are ready for the general audience that is when I will jump ship.

We need this in the USA too! Innovation is stifled when platforms can directly affect the growth of other services, too bad the majority of our politicians are useless. I will continue to vote those fools out to pave the way for this type of legislation! I’m using Apple due to them not being as awful with LLMs as Google is; however, I don’t approve of their anti-consumer and anti-competition measures in their ecosystem.

I think it’s due to a combination of the tech still being relatively young (it’s made leaps and bounds) and its thoughtless hallucinations that pass as valid answers. If the training data is poisoned by disinformation or misinformation, it makes any output potentially useless at best, at worst it’s harmful. The quality of LLM results purely depends on the people in charge of creating them and the source of its data. After writing it out, I feel that I mistrust the people in control of LLM development because it’s so easy to implement this tech incorrectly and for the people in charge to be completely irresponsible. Since, the techbros behind this latest push for making LLMs into AI are so gung-ho about it, the guard rails have been pushed aside. That makes it all the easier for my fears to become manifest.

Once again, it sounds all well and good what Apple is likely trying to do with their implementation of LLM. However, I can’t help but wonder about how terribly wrong it can all go.

ChatGPT is a disaster in my opinion, it really soured my opinion on LLMs. Despite your educated opinion on the matter of Apple Intelligence; I have deep-seated mistrust of LLMs. Hopefully, it does turn out fine in the case of Apple’s implementation. I’m hesitant to be as optimistic about it. Once this is out in the wild and has been rigorously tested and prodded like ChatGPT; only then might my opinion on Apple Intelligence be changed.

No, I purely meant Apple making AI an opt-in feature is setting is an appropriate choice. Users should and have full control over their data and how a company can or cannot access it. My opinion on AI (LLMs in disguise) is that it’s very much a project which is not ready for general use beyond Autocorrection and Grammar checking.

I am no Apple Fanboy, but a decision like this in regards to Apple Intelligence being opt-in is a better move than what Microsoft and Google have done. I sure as shit will be keeping an eye on Apple as I don’t trust them enough to give them the keys to my data readily. They were a better option at the moment until Linux Phones are amazing enough to abandon iOS.

I 100% agree, LLMs are a security threat at the moment because and need far more work before I would consider them remotely safe! Users who aren’t technically savvy should not be forced to harbor LLMs on their systems. As the risk of a malicious user breaching and siphoning that data off is ever present. There have to be huge guardrails in place which allow users to have precise control over their data and where it goes.

In regards to iCloud, users should always have a choice as to which apps are opted-in to iCloud at start-up. I know they think iCloud is the best shit, however, letting the user decide is king. The same could be said for all the data harvesting enabled by default on iOS/Mac OS (I vindictively turned that shit off making a WTF face).

As for Apple making Apple Intelligence temporarily opt-in, I’m not sure they would do that. As they’ve seen the outrage caused by LLMs, I think Apple might make an exception and remain opt-in. Though, this is only an opinion and could be proven wrong in the near future.

As for Linux, I did switch almost a week and a half ago to Ubuntu because Microsoft pissed me off! I experienced the pain points caused due to reacquainting myself with the OS, found out several tools I loved and used back in the 16.04 days do not play nicely with 24.04; I borked Ubuntu 3 times before getting it right. ROFL Now it works just fine since Canonical pushed patches that solved underlying issues in their code. I was able to customize and play games, it’s just the lack of proprietary software for iPhone management. I’ll have to get a Mac Mini for that purpose.

I think Apple is handling their foray into the LLM space better by making Apple Intelligence opt-in instead of opt-out. I took umbrage with Microsoft and Google due to not being able to at least opt-out and remove the ‘features’ from their respective OS.

Apple setting a better example is a good thing to see.

I’m merely being cautious for the time being in regard to buying games without native Linux support. My owned games that I’ve tried with Proton 9.0-1 have worked fine so far, I’ve not noticed any glaring issues with gameplay. I was having troubles with the OS before Canonical pushed several updates that fixed their code, now everything is fine on that front.

In my case, it’s due to having Ubuntu installed that I can’t buy this game on Steam. Otherwise, I’d have probably purchased this game from Steam instead of for console.