- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
This is like when Roku remotes had the Blockbuster button on them.
Literally no one asked for this.
Don’t question the tech, bro, and the tech bros.
Microsoft is asking for it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112500/microsoft-ai-pc-intel-windows-copilot-key-requirements
This reminds me of the crypto/NFT days where everyone and their brother added a special “blockchain” feature in their product, even when it didn’t make sense or was completely unnecessary.
At least that can be turned off in updates.
All these hardware additions, the AI buttons, even Windows taking away the right CTRL key for Copilot, are ugly appendages that, in 20 years, when were clearing out the equipment closest, we’ll see some of these and go “oh yeah remember when that bullshit was as a thing for a few years?”
Those days? That was a couple of weeks ago.
Silicon Valley is honestly worthless.
We have an entire industry based on innovations that are 30-50 years old.
How long until Wall street finds a new investment vehicle and San Francisco is the next Detroit?
It’s just like ten years ago when everything was about “the cloud”. I can’t wait for the industry to move on to another gimmick to force down the consumer’s throat.
Block chain, anyone?
The cloud at least made a bit of sense. Offload the requirements of hosting an app or colocating a server to other folks, and you just use it. It’s somebody else’s computer, and it’s their problem if something goes wrong.
The problem is that the MBAs making the decision didn’t understand what was going on in the first place, so “the cloud” because a catch-all buzzword for anything they didn’t want to think too hard about.
I mean… having a chokehold on cloud computing is still very much a source of the dominance US and Chinese companies have to shape world markets these days…
I’m waiting for my combination AI/blockchain/cordless blender, so I can’t even use it because it had a brainfart while trying to make an NFT of my smoothie, dropped its’ internet connection and now it won’t even charge.
Fucking ai on a mouse… Maybe we need AI in my toaster next
Does anyone want any toast? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
So what is it?
It’s sliced bread that has been browned by radiant heat, triggering the Maillard reaction, making the surface firmer, crispy, and altering its flavour profile with caramelized sugars.
NVIDIA stock to the fucking ground!
Ugh
Don’t forget the part where Logitech now requires you to use a web app (that only works on Chromium) to adjust settings or pair dongles now.
Just find a new peripheral manufacturer.
I’m not defending them here but I use a company-provided Logitech keyboard and mouse and there is dedicated software (called Logi Options+)
I don’t think it needs Internet access and it definitely doesn’t run in a browser. I downloaded it with Firefox
These ridiculous mice with a dedicated AI button are showing up all over now. 😠 I mean … how can you fuck up something as simple as a mouse!?
My WebEx client (a program for making phone calls and text messages) added a damned AI button last week.
Why!?
Why? Because they can and some c suite said to do it because buzzwords.
Turns out, it is actually kinda useful for summarizing conversations and bringing you up to speed.
I guess that that second part makes sense.
It’s the buzzword part that irks me. All I want is a video card under $500 that actually works…
I’m hoping that AMD gets some progress in the graphics space and the AI space. And as much as it pains me… Intel too.
Intel, AMD, almost anyone else. Nvidia can keep making AI calculation cards while the rest of us get perfectly serviceable graphics cards at affordable consumer prices .
I’d love to know how much time and money was wasted on this.
Tree Fiddy
I ain’t givin’ no AI shortcut button no tree fiddy!
What the fuck happened to “make the buttons do whatever you want”?
It do whatever you want (but ai)
Sounds like a latency add. I get pissed off when my sensor has angle snapping, prediction, smoothing, or the z-axis bug. I’m the guy who gets in the gmmk customer service and goes full Karen because their very nice spec sheet still doesn’t tell me what I want to know and it took some trying to get them to ask their dev team.
I’m not making this up. I don’t wanna ever have the convenient excuse of blaming the controls. https://www.esreality.com/post/2677965/re-mice-using-flawless-sensors-v2/
You could have gotten the same result without being an asshole…
Do you see that 5 there? That’s how many emails went back and forth. I tried the “not being an asshole” and got brushed off.
Ah, yes. I remember when I was young enough to believe that being polite gets you attention instead of the brush-off.
We need a “the future were headed towards” meme with a keyboard that’s all AI assistant buttons and no QWERTY
For those times when you need a tomboy in Counter strike
the fuck does it do?