I mean I absolutely want it but also understand your apprehension.

I mean imagine every person having a personal assistant in their pocket who can draft emails on your behalf based on other emails in your inbox, remind you of things without actually creating a reminder, fill out forms for you, answer texts for you, write software for you, create automations for you, etc. etc. I mean the possibilities are endless for increased productivity.

On the other hand, in order to do those things, they have to have access to just about everything, which is scary to me, personally. But I think the vast majority have made it clear they don’t give a single shit about privacy.

This is so fucking stupid. All Gemini (and every other LLM) does is find info on the internet and regurgitate it back to you. The LLM part just does it’s best to narrow it down to the specific answer you’re looking for much more quickly and summarize it. It has no way to disseminate fact from fiction.

Same goes for the Google search engine. Does it suck? Yes. Is it worse than it used to be? Yes. Is that Google’s fault? Not necessarily, it’s moreso the rise of AI just uploading mountains of bullshit to the internet. Every other search engine has the same problems.

Although I am in no way advocating for the use of Google search…

Sounds typical. Pretend to care while gov is standing on their necks. Forget about it as soon as they turn around.

Autocorrect 😛

That’s what I was referring to about versatility

I think most of us moved on to x86 by now.

Price of ARM chips has gone up. Price of x86 has come down. x86 comes with a small energy penalty for a huge boost in speed. Also just a more versatile architecture, since most servers run x86.

You’re literally lying about how default settings work. Everyone knows how they work. Who do you think you’re fooling with your bad lying? ROFLCOPTER

I also don’t think LTT ever calls anyone out about anything, ever.

…what? Have you ever watched the channel? He has entire videos dedicated to calling out a wide variety of OEMs. Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Google, MS, etc. etc.

He calls out more OEMs than any I’ve seen.

Steve of course is more thorough but LTT will complain all the livelong day.

Influencers only get paid if they do and say what the sponsor paying them wants them to do and say

I mean that is patently untrue. LTT says negative things about Nvidia on a regular basis and they still sponsor him. And Intel. And probably AMD at some point.

Other reviewers like J2C straight-up stop accepting sponsorships from companies like ASUS.

No it does not. Not after you restart the machine.

Why are you still lying?

I’m “reluctant” because I’ve used a dozen of them. None of them had this option. No sense in wasting time arguing about something I already know you can’t do.

I did not say how to change them. I said how to change the default device. Not sure why you feel the need to lie about this.

Every time I turn on my PC it defaults to the wrong audio device and the wrong power profile and I have to change it back. I can Google a dozen different commands that do nothing but give me some sort of generic error.

It’s not

How about setting the default audio device?

How about changing the default power profile?

Just for starters…

…except it’s not?

That sounds a lot like fiat.

Agree to disagree, I suppose. If I have to go into the terminal to do anything, that’s unacceptable. And I have to do it for everything.

“Too far” is what they’re looking for. In other words, “How much bullshit can we cram down their throats before they’ll spend an absurd amount of money on a disposable Macbook or spend their days becoming a sysadmin so they can use Linux?” Doesn’t seem that they’ve found that line yet. They’re still looking.

It does.

I don’t know how many different ways I can explain this. It doesn’t matter how cheap it is when no one is buying it.

I mean it is a problem in the sense that any legitimate crypto is immediately written off.