If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can’t trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?

It’s really good for generating code snippets based on what I want to do (ex. “How do I play audio in a browser using JavaScript?”) and debugging small sections of code.

Don’t forget the benefit of being able to spite Google!

It won’t do 4k 60fps HDR, but it can play 40 years worth of games, and also do office and productivity work while being portable to take it outside of your home.

I wish they could provide more storage for paid users, or allow users to a la carte add storage. $4/mo to merely match Gmail’s 15GB feels a bit steep, and it must be feasible for them to offer their mail service with 100GB+ for $5/mo.

I think that YT should open up APIs to make a better frontend for third party apps, like what Reddit had, at least to premium users.

If you aren’t signed into an Apple ID it’ll give you nag pop-ups.

If you don’t accept the iCloud T&C, even if you never use it, it’ll give you nag pop-ups.

If you haven’t set up Apple pay, it’ll give you nag pop-ups.

It’ll also give you a double nag pop-up for every new minor iOS version until you update it.

I’m sure I’m missing a bunch here.

Most Android skins. Even stock Android can get naggy at times.

And don’t even get me started on iOS if you haven’t done what Apple wants you to do. It’ll give you a pop-up at least once every day.

Oh, and Smart TVs? Don’t even think about having any control; you are a slave to the OS.

So you’re saying I can get away with anything as long as I somehow legally declare myself a corporation?

I thought Mediatek was even more closed off than Qualcomm.

Patreon, sponsorships, and Nebula

YouTube is totally gonna copy this.

Can we have AI-capable PCs without the cloud nonsense please? Isn’t the whole point of local AI to reduce cloud reliance?

I just want to be able to corner hard and accelerate hard and do some spirited driving in a safe area without that info getting sold to insurance companies…

The NPUs are good, provided that they can be used the same way dedicated GPUs are used: By 3rd party applications to accelerate certain intensive tasks when you demand them.

However, shoehorning AI into the OS itself definitely screams buzzwords. AI and OS’s are polar opposites: You want an OS to be fast, predictable, and reliable. AI is currently slow, extremely unpredictable, and hallucinatory (i.e. unreliable).

Why are people downvoting you? I totally agree with you. Firefox has the upper edge (pun unintended) on the backend technology that causes them to resist Google’s greedy changes, but acts just like a for-profit company when it comes to the UI.

Look how much pointless whitespace their is on the tab bar. It was so “popular” that Chrome recently came in and copied that change. But Vivaldi just goes its own way, trying to make the most competitive browser it can.

For comparison, a single hydraulically fractured oil well uses over 100 times as much water.

Many large creators post on Nebula, and half my YT consumption has been replaced by Nebula

This PC optimizer app screams of the early adware PC optimizer apps.

Unfortunately, it’s Microsoft to blame for it being slow in the first place.

Reminder that because the Windows 11 taskbar is slower and buggier than the Windows 10 taskbar, it uses much more power due to the extra CPU cycles.