Clent

@Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all quietly integrating NPUs into their devices, and implementing the software infrastructure in their operating systems to do on-device classification of content:

  Too late. Apple has had an NPU in their phones since 2017. It’s been standard on flagship android devices since 2020 with various amd and intel processors starting around the same time.

  I’m not here to defend LLMs or AI feature but for a comment to start with such a misinformed assessment of the state of reality reminds me of someone spouting off about chemtrails and weather machines.

  At least NPUs actually exist.

  If someone wants to avoid this stuff they are going to need to pick an open source platform that does not use these processor features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon CEO Andy Jassy plays up his retail rivals’ worst nightmare: Trump’s tariffs may actually strengthen Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So buy directly from China using AliExpress (fuck temu) and cut out the Amazon tax?

  When America companies do this, it’s white labeling and they sometimes adds a warranty, better package etc.

  With Amazon you just pay the Amazon tax. The products they are describing aren’t coming next day. It’s literally the same speed as AliExpress with a worse return policy. AliExpress will refund and let you keep the item.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And self driving cars were five years away a decade ago.

  This isn’t a public company. He can say a lot of bullshit and twist those numbers in ways he could never get away with for a public stock like Tesla but I don’t doubt there are some rich fools looking to swap positions with the current batch of rich fools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple desperately needs to enter the smart tv market so these shitheels have something to copy.

  All these smart tv interfaces are trash and now that Walmart is positioning itself as a market leader with its purchase or Vizio and Amazon already entrenched, it’s time for a real tech giant, one that has been designing interfaces for decades to step in and show them how it’s done.

  Having a retail giants own the experience is an idocracy distopia. If Apple did even a tenth of the shit these tv manufacturers were actively doing, the internet would be flooded with Apple-Bad™ articles.