Technology

Tip for any future product designers: Just because it looks cool in a movie, doesn't mean it'll translate well into reality as a useful product.

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

The vision of an AI PC, where it may or may not launch the app you tell it to, where one plus one may or may not be two, where deleting a file may delete the file you see, or a random different one.

Sounds great! /s

Imagine the cost of cloud AI on PCs. That only works too some degree for cloud data and being even more wasteful for the rest.

Every document you have, legal and medical, finance and personal, will all interface with the cloud. With numerous parties en route, visible and hidden, and a massive system you may or may not trust.

If a tech executive says we're on the cusp of a technology breakthrough it means less than nothing and we should be more suspicious of it than already. These are people who don't know how to manage an organization based on the frequent layoffs (2009, 2014, 2023-2025 over 20k workers). People get fired because they fuck up, management layoff people because management fucked up.

And I would like Microsoft to go fuck itself. 🖕🥰🖕

"Open the browser. No, not explorer, Edge! Open Edge, god damn it! Go to CNN.com. why did you open another browser window? No, I don't want to open another browser window. Open the news "Everything sucks and we are all going to die". Why did you open Bing? Stop asking for confirmation for everything...

My penguin doesn't listen to what Microsoft wants.

ai is the 3d movies of this age.

I hate any voice-activated programs. Sometimes I'll ask my phone to call someone, and most of the time it does. But every now and then, it seems to completely forget my voice, the English language, how to access my contacts, how to spell anything, etc. I end up spending five minutes trying to force it to dial by my voice, screaming and cursing at it like a psychopath, when it would have taken me literally 3 seconds to just make the call manually.

If you try to do some sort of voice-to-text thing, it ALWAYS screws it up so bad, that you end up spending more time editing, than if you'd just typed it yourself in the first place.

Fuck voice-activated anything. It NEVER works reliably.

I don't want a fucking experience I just want a computer that works you stupid capitalist fuckhead.

Switch to linux, use open source AI. It's better and private.

I see no legitimate reason to let ANY AI have full access to my computer. It's just unnecessary.

If I need to ask an AI to proofread something, or I need help sorting through a programming error. I'll go to its website and ask it.

There is no reason (for me) to let it sit there chilling on my computer 24-7 doing good knows what.

Oh look it's Cortana 2

I have not touched a Microsoft product or service for my personal life in 10 years. Last year I was fired, thus no longer being forced to use Teams.

Which means I haven't touched a Microsoft product, at all, in a year. Love it.

Honestly, people are rightfully concerned about Microsoft locking down machines, and hackers, and rightfully so, but I think the real insanity is that I do really think LLMs is a tech bubble that I fully expect to burst, and attempting to redesign our lives around it will feel as silly as web3 in 2025.

How can a company grow so out of touch with its customers?

Fuck this then. I guess I'm going for linux

The way that all this "AI" processing has been trained, it almost always fails for anyone who doesn't fit the white middle-class aesthetic. Voice-to-text generative AI processing will screw up for people with accents, including non-native speakers; also someone who slurs their words, or talks in African-American Vernacular English. Also, it requires someone to know how to speak and listen in a language. Clicking on icons and inputting commands is the same regardless of what language you speak. This just reeks of out-of touch nepo-baby executives.

Well, Microsoft can eat a bag of dicks.

What. Could. Go. Wrong.

I wonder when they start removing being able to make administrator account on regular licences and make you beg the ai for anything that requires elevated rights.

Yes, "control." That's what Microsoft wants you to have over "your" computer.

Yeah, and I'm sure it also wanted middle managers to write COBOL.

I don't even talk to my cat, I can mute for a day. why would I talk to a clanking metals.

I can only imagine the utter chaos this would cause in a cube farm.

But, the only place where talking to your computer at length makes any sense whatsoever is where you're alone in a private office and nobody outside of the office can hear you. Nobody wants to hear other people talking to their computer, and nobody wants other people listening to what they're doing on the computer.

My spouse and I both work from home and keep our office doors open so that the cats can come and go. We have absolutely no interest in hearing each other work. I know couples that share a home office. It's like these fucknut executives at M$ think everyone either lives alone or has a private office in the east wing of their McMansion.

And all of that is ignoring the fact that you shouldn't need AI to interpret what somebody wants a computer to do. Discreet commands for discreet tasks have been a thing for as long as computers have existed and there's no reason for that to change, regardless of the input method. Making commands fuzzy and open to interpretation is not an improvement.

Beyond that sounding tedious as fuck, how much will that actually improve workflow? Or is this one of those features that sounds good to people with C level intelligence, and the rest of us just have to pretend we're using.

Microsoft has no say what happens on my workstation, and never had any.

HOT CILFS IN A 3 MILE RADIUS WANT TO TALK TO YOU

Yes, I do honestly want a computer I can command with my voice. One that understands my needs and the context of the things I say.

However...

• That PC should not be tethered to the cloud. It must be capable of doing all that on its own.
• It should not fold me into some subscription model to some corporate entity.
• It should be open source and under my control, not opaque and subject to the whims of a corporate entity.
• No, it doesn't have to be FOSS. I would pay for it, once. It just needs to be OSS.