• Veneroso@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 days ago

      My WebEx client (a program for making phone calls and text messages) added a damned AI button last week.

      Why!?

      • stringere@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        7 days ago

        Why? Because they can and some c suite said to do it because buzzwords.

        Turns out, it is actually kinda useful for summarizing conversations and bringing you up to speed.

        • Veneroso@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 days ago

          I guess that that second part makes sense.

          It’s the buzzword part that irks me. All I want is a video card under $500 that actually works…

          I’m hoping that AMD gets some progress in the graphics space and the AI space. And as much as it pains me… Intel too.

          • stringere@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            7 days ago

            Intel, AMD, almost anyone else. Nvidia can keep making AI calculation cards while the rest of us get perfectly serviceable graphics cards at affordable consumer prices .

  • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    I’ve made a quantum leap in food technology: I have invented french fries with a dedicated AI… let’s say napkin. Not like it matters. It costs 450 dollars per month and requires the area of a small town’s worth of rain forest to be razed in order to produce a single one. What does it do, you ask? It’s AI, it does AI things, you bumpkin. You wouldn’t understand with your uncultured peasant brain but if you’re not on board, the evolution of civilisation will leave you behind in an instant.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 days ago

    F-ck those superflous buttons. I’ve got a mouse with an extra button on the left side. Otherwise, this is a good mouse, but someone had the stupid idea of putting this button where it can easily be activated with a brush of the thumb, and another had the equally stupid idea to make the default function the “back” in the browser.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days ago

    Meanwhile the MX combo can’t fucking switch both devices between computers using the keyboard button. Still have to change it on both, like yeah I really want to turn my mouse over and I really care about being able to independently switch the two of them.

  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml
    68·
    8 days ago

    This reminds me of the crypto/NFT days where everyone and their brother added a special “blockchain” feature in their product, even when it didn’t make sense or was completely unnecessary.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40·
      8 days ago

      At least that can be turned off in updates.

      All these hardware additions, the AI buttons, even Windows taking away the right CTRL key for Copilot, are ugly appendages that, in 20 years, when were clearing out the equipment closest, we’ll see some of these and go “oh yeah remember when that bullshit was as a thing for a few years?”

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    36·
    8 days ago

    It’s just like ten years ago when everything was about “the cloud”. I can’t wait for the industry to move on to another gimmick to force down the consumer’s throat.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 days ago

      The cloud at least made a bit of sense. Offload the requirements of hosting an app or colocating a server to other folks, and you just use it. It’s somebody else’s computer, and it’s their problem if something goes wrong.

      The problem is that the MBAs making the decision didn’t understand what was going on in the first place, so “the cloud” because a catch-all buzzword for anything they didn’t want to think too hard about.

    • Gsus4@programming.dev
      4·
      8 days ago

      I mean… having a chokehold on cloud computing is still very much a source of the dominance US and Chinese companies have to shape world markets these days…

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    321·
    8 days ago

    Don’t forget the part where Logitech now requires you to use a web app (that only works on Chromium) to adjust settings or pair dongles now.

    Just find a new peripheral manufacturer.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
      112·
      8 days ago

      I’m not defending them here but I use a company-provided Logitech keyboard and mouse and there is dedicated software (called Logi Options+)

      I don’t think it needs Internet access and it definitely doesn’t run in a browser. I downloaded it with Firefox

  • s_s@lemmy.one
    322·
    8 days ago

    Silicon Valley is honestly worthless.

    We have an entire industry based on innovations that are 30-50 years old.

    How long until Wall street finds a new investment vehicle and San Francisco is the next Detroit?

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    19·
    8 days ago

    Not that I would ever buy it, but I can totally picture myself accidentally pressing that button all the fucking time.