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macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage

74 pointsby 2h agoreddit.com
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1h agoHN ↗

This type of stuff gives me PTSD flashbacks from trying timo de-crapify Windows.

59m agoHN ↗

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?

56m agoHN ↗

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

49m agoHN ↗

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

46m agoHN ↗

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?

30m agoHN ↗

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.

30m agoHN ↗

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

33m agoHN ↗

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.

23m agoHN ↗

How many apple devices exist globally?

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

11m agoHN ↗

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

42m agoHN ↗

Yeah, I’ll wait to update my computers until Apple gives us an actual choice.

5m agoHN ↗

Time to permanently offboard from Apple ecosystem then

27m agoHN ↗

Off topic. Since old.reddit is now login walled - is there an alternative frontend?