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thewhitetulip 7 hours ago

I am tired to fight against every platform that I have to use

De macify Mac Degoogle Android Demacify ipad DeLLM chrome browsers local llm

Can we expect sane decisions from corpos about what we want rather than what latest thing they want to push on us?

agoodusername63 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

no. buy a linux compatible laptop and deal with the UX downgrade.

hattar 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are definitely some cool features missing, but I'd take KDE over any other window manager without a second thought if it were possible.

drooopy 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What downgrade? A typical Gnome desktop is far more coherent than Windows or even macOS in some regards these days.

ezst 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

KDE. KDE is all you need.

Ginger-Pickles 6 hours ago | parent [-]

One arguably don’t even need KDE any more; the coding models will throw together a perfectly adequate desktop environment.

regenschutz 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why should one use something adequate when something amazing exists?

ezst 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure what the point of this would be? Devalued street creds for running something nobody else does? Who cares?

bitwize 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Well, it's literally the reason Omarchy exists so some people like it...

jhack 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple says their users make 2.5B Siri requests per day. Sounds like people want it?

drooopy 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Never met anyone who used siri out in public, to be honest.

quaddoggy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Timers. Easily >50% of these requests are people setting timers.

tiborsaas 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Do they have a breakdown for platforms? iOS vs. macOS, I'd bet most of it is iOS.

I don't have Siri enabled, I've never felt the need for it on desktop.

nozzlegear 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I use it on the desktop.

moribvndvs 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Even though I do use it, a choice would be nice.

Hodgewocket 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are they aware?

javier2 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I dont even have Siri enabled, but even less so on macOS.

a1o 6 hours ago | parent [-]

If you have a car you are forced to because you can’t use Apple Car Play if you don’t enable Siri.

I also don’t use but I have to have it enabled to be able to use Google Maps, and Siri occasionally mistakes a conversation for being invited to listen and speak.

officeplant an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>you can’t use Apple Car Play if you don’t enable Siri.

It works for me, but I'm using wired carplay on an iphone 11 w/ios27. (In the US, Swapped to Siri Classic, then disabled it.)

Looking around online it seems doing it wired can bypass the Siri requirement. Which may work in my case because in the Ford headunit I can force wireless projection to be off and blocked (including turning off the wifi for the headunit). So some cars might be forcing wireless Carplay and triggering the Siri requirement.

cromulent 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Curious. I have Siri turned off (just checked again) and I use Apple CarPlay daily. Maybe an EU thing.

GuinansEyebrows 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i wonder how many of them are like 100% of my requests?

- "set a timer for 14 minutes"

- "remind me to make a doctor's appointment tomorrow at noon"

- "turn off the bedroom lights"

that don't require any form of AI and have functioned perfectly well (aside from having a hard time when i mumble) for years on non-AI versions of Siri?

thewebguyd 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I suspect even some of the more "advanced" queries they demoed off, i.e., "what was that restaurant John and I talked about last week?" also not require LLMs whatsoever and could have been accomplished with a simple search.

anamexis 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you're going to need some kind of ML to turn that question into a structured search, and interpret the results.

regenschutz 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Not necessarily. NLP is possible to do without any ML. See ELIZA [0] as an example, which used pattern matching and substitution to process natural language. A few simple rules can cover a majority of requests. It's still AI, but not ML.

Though I do agree that the ML-based NLP thst we have today is much more usable, albeit more compute-expensive.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

exographicskip 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This matches my use cases. Poor speech to text recognition so I don't trust siri to do anything non-trivial

dreamcompiler 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Siri was always AI, but the popular connotation of "AI" changes all the time. It now means "LLMs built with transformers."

pesus 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I get forced to use it While using CarPlay. I don't particularly want it, though, considering it still regularly fails at basic tasks like adding the currently playing song to a playlist.

thewhitetulip 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How many apple devices exist globally?

Does everyone use siri? How about keeping it opt-in?

mathisfun123 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 2.5B Siri requests per day

that's like one request per day per user lolol

vitalrune 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The issue it's they make it very hard to remove it to clear the space used by it, i think you got to boot into recovery mode and do some risky crap, my macbook is almost out of space just from development cache..

basisword 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You don't need to. Use the alternatives.