That's because I want my computer to do what I tell it to, not to fucking guess.
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Oh, I care. I would not buy one.
I came here to say this.
There are two things I like:
- AI grifts failing
- Cheap aarch64 laptops
This story has it all!
I thought that was pretty obvious by now? Based on how much the companies are trying force feed people their latest version through constant notifications about assistants, assisted search, etc.
It's one of the greatest flaws of relying on social media for market research: Tech-bros being overly loud about things like AI, NFTs, etc. trick companies into thinking more people are interested.
Now they've invested tons of money and people aren't biting, so they're constantly nagging people to engage so they can justify their expenditure.
Hence why it is important not only to deny the parasite profits but also engagement 🐸
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*actively don't want
This. There's a huge difference between not caring and intentionally avoiding.
I'm waiting for all AI "features" to be isolated onto a single chip which I can just reach into the case with a pair of plyers and crush into dust
Then you'd juat have to deal with errors from processes expecting it to be there. Probably better to instead not use software that implements it, which I assume you're doing anyway.
What benefit is there?
AI basically takes what I already see in search results and tries to make it a conversational summary. I don’t want a conversation or to read a made-up wiki summary, just give me the correct and pertinent result. Problem is that they put AI first and search result quality has been deteriorating for years, so two wrongs don’t mean forcing it on users is right.
I'm in the same boat. Besides some image generators my kid and I used to create some avatars, I don't get it. Don't need a conversation, just give me search results. Don't waste my time.
I switched to Linux over Copilot.
Fuck AI.
Same here. I don't want shit pushed on me. I love the freedom of Linux.
also no one has money to buy new laptop
also no one has money ~~to buy new laptop~~
FTFY
Don't lump me in with you. I'm well on my way to a massive fortune. I work hard everyday and everyone around seems to be less well off. I probably die in the lap of luxury. Sorry, my manager is asking me to clean the bathroom again. Ill finish my thought here in a second.
I bought mine in the fall, and holy smokes, the same model costs 30% more now.
Absolutely insane.
Trump did that
The hype around this shit is astounding. That people who make decisions about products from huge brands keep buying in is shocking to me. How can something so useless (to most people) capture the imagination of educated and intelligent people? It's a sign of how broken capitalism is. Rational thought is replaced by fear of missing out.
Not educated and intelligent people, wealthy investors.
We're sighing at having to build all these features the boss wants and we know they are stupid and we see the lost oppertunity cost that could have been used to improve other things instead. I'm tired and the job market is so ass right now.
Most of the concrete value that can be delivered by connecting things to the Internet and simple algorithms has been extracted by silicon valley. The only capital extraction mechanisms left are difficult things that only a government has the capital access to make real progress on (e.g., AGI, advanced robotics, self-driving vehicles, space exploration, etc.) and hyped up garbage that big investment firms think they can extract value out of either the public (through scams like cryptocurrency) or other investors (through LLMs and AI hype) and sell before people figure out that it's smoke and mirrors.
We made real progress on the backs of mostly government-funded research projects like DARPA and GPS. The industry was able to optimize and innovate the shit out of the earliest computing breakthroughs where now you have a device in your pocket that can hold several libraries of Congress and beats anything put out in desktop form 20 years ago. But since the tech companies that matter are all giant, there just aren't ways for them to grow market share (everyone's their customer) or get many more dollars out of their existing customers. All that is left are scams and bad business practices. That's why we're in the golden age of enshittification.
Ugh, I don’t want to be forced to build a laptop to avoid all this battery blasting garbage.
If you boot aarch64 linux instead, you’ll actually get amazing battery life on these. And probably better app support than Windows ARM
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Is it even feasible to build your own laptop? As far as I know most of the laptop builds are proprietary.
It was as of 10 years ago, but I abandoned the project while in its infancy because it was such a headache. I’d fully believe that the practice died out, and the market with it.
I worked in IT for 12 years, and even i don't give a shit. AI is stupid and it's not even AI
Can’t wait to buy a used laptop with an NPU and a bunch of ram for my home lab to run private LLMs on. Just gotta be patient. 🙃
Leave it to Microsoft to waste yet another effort on things people don't care about and ignoring the things people do care about.
As they write in the article... What's a compelling app? In fact what even uncompelling software (copilot aside) makes use of this?
From what I understand, this is the trend because Apple Silicon works. It has well integrated GPU with CPU with great memory for AI tasks on a minimal case. You can run DeepSeek (the 671B one) on it. Who wouldn't want that? The problem is that those companies hardware, specifically the firmware, is not to be trusted.
Imagine a world where you would have to jailbreak everything on your PC for it to work. I think that's what they're going for. AI is really useful, and if they can make something like Mac Studio cheaper, it has obvious value.
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