this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's not care. Its want. We don't want AI.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

FR I think more people actively dislike it, which is a form of care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Whenever I ask random people who are not on IT, they either don't know about it or they love it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

That's a boring perspective fuck you for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago

Thats an interesting perspective thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Depends on the implementation.

Just about everyone I know loves how iPhones can take a picture and readily identify a plant or animal. That's actually delightful. Some AI tech is great.

Now put an LLM chatbox where people expect a search box, and see what happens... yeah that shit sucks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

loves how iPhones can take a picture and readily identify a plant or animal.

As I biologist I'd like to correct your sentence: "iPhones can take a picture and pretend to sometimes manage to get close to identifying a plant"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

It sucks at identification too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I imagine it’s paying a premium for issue

[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

Do they care? No! Will they push more AI? Yes! Will they listen to the consumers? I don't think so.
Same thing happens with lot of products over the years. Companies push new stuff that we don't want, and a year later becomes a regular thing! They push AI day by day, from websites AI chat help to in app AI assistant. Do consumers like it? No, but still you gonna find it everywhere! and now they push it in computers and looks what it happens! No sales!

Call me crazy, but at some point, they need to look at their data or their consumers and do the right thing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

It's maddening that they did actually take away the headphone jack from all modern phones and there's nothing we can do about it even though it objectively sucks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

You can still buy phones with a headphone jack. It's just that most people buy the one without because most people have a wireless headset they use with the phone.

It's SUPER simple: if something new comes along and sells, it will become the standard. If it doesn't sell, it won't.

Removing the headphone jack allowed manufacturers to make phones thinner/lighter/cheaper/whatever and people didn't vote against it, therefore it stays.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

most, Sony still has them

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

But there's no space on the new thin phones.

STFU yes there is. Gimme my 3.5mm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

@V0ldek

Does anyone sell a case with a built-in USB DAC and 3.5mm jack?

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