macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage
75 points by ano-ther 3 hours ago | 19 comments
jtbayly 44 minutes ago
Yeah, I’ll wait to update my computers until Apple gives us an actual choice.
replywahnfrieden 8 minutes ago
Time to permanently offboard from Apple ecosystem then
replythih9 29 minutes ago
Off topic. Since old.reddit is now login walled - is there an alternative frontend?
replylotsofpulp 2 hours ago
This type of stuff gives me PTSD flashbacks from trying timo de-crapify Windows.
replythewhitetulip 2 hours ago
I am tired to fight against every platform that I have to use
replyDe macify Mac Degoogle Android Demacify ipad DeLLM chrome browsers local llm
Can we expect sane decisions from corpos about what we want rather than what latest thing they want to push on us?
jhack 59 minutes ago
Apple says their users make 2.5B Siri requests per day. Sounds like people want it?
replytiborsaas 36 minutes ago
Do they have a breakdown for platforms? iOS vs. macOS, I'd bet most of it is iOS.
replyI don't have Siri enabled, I've never felt the need for it on desktop.
thewhitetulip 25 minutes ago
How many apple devices exist globally?
replyDoes everyone use siri? How about keeping it opt-in?
GuinansEyebrows 49 minutes ago
i wonder how many of them are like 100% of my requests?
reply- "set a timer for 14 minutes"
- "remind me to make a doctor's appointment tomorrow at noon"
- "turn off the bedroom lights"
that don't require any form of AI and have functioned perfectly well (aside from having a hard time when i mumble) for years on non-AI versions of Siri?
thewebguyd 33 minutes ago
I suspect even some of the more "advanced" queries they demoed off, i.e., "what was that restaurant John and I talked about last week?" also not require LLMs whatsoever and could have been accomplished with a simple search.
replyexographicskip 33 minutes ago
This matches my use cases. Poor speech to text recognition so I don't trust siri to do anything non-trivial
replyezst 25 minutes ago
KDE. KDE is all you need.
replyGinger-Pickles 14 minutes ago
One arguably don’t even need KDE any more; the coding models will throw together a perfectly adequate desktop environment.
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