Technology

Yes, I do honestly want a computer I can command with my voice. One that understands my needs and the context of the things I say.

However...

• That PC should not be tethered to the cloud. It must be capable of doing all that on its own.
• It should not fold me into some subscription model to some corporate entity.
• It should be open source and under my control, not opaque and subject to the whims of a corporate entity.
• No, it doesn't have to be FOSS. I would pay for it, once. It just needs to be OSS.

So basically what they got in XP (or earlier) already but 1000x the power requirements.

I already have a computer I can talk to. I call it a useless sack of shit every day.

Yikes.

I am already uncomfortable when my mom talks with her phone to search Google. But hey, she is 83 years old and her health is declining. Maybe she does not need so much privacy any more.

But here is a sad story: I have two friends, a couple. Both are automation engineers. They could not have kids, which was their life dream. So instead, they re-purposed their energy and built their dream house. A beautiful house. And, of course, with a lot of automation and logic programmed by them. Shutters which open in the morning and close when it is stormy. A shower which plays the right morning radio program. Extra settings for when parents-in-law visit.

But what makes me uncomfortable is voice control by speech recognition. All that cortana/siri stuff. For everything, even switching on the light. I don't like that when I visit people. For me, it is like somebody is always listening, even to stuff that is meant only for my friends ears.

I have not told them, but I don't like that house.

ironically im sorta hoping to see this with linux were even installation uses a small local chatbot that guides the installation and then the os is chatbot centric where one of the things you do as you use is allow it to use additional resources to get more capability.

And I would like MS to fuck off. I’ll even ask nicely.

Why would you ever want to talk to your computer beyond the obvious "oh for fucksake, now what" and "shit, that shouldn't happen"?

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Electric companies after Microsoft announced AI PC.

He's been saying this for about 2 years now. This cusp is lasting a really long time.