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jenny tightpants
@jtp.bsky.social

i remember when wikipedia and blogs and podcasts were forced into everyone's operating systems invasively and against their will and they had to employ increasingly tedious methods to disable it every few weeks

jenny tightpants
@jtp.bsky.social

im saying that none of the things you mentioned were forced into everything by tech companies the way AI is now. everyone used all that stuff because they wanted to. unlike AI

Lyyra
@lyyyra.bsky.social

And Microsoft took the button to remove CoPilot away, so it boots every time I open an Office app. And Google takes away your spellcheck (!!) when you limit Gemini. I had to get a separate browser extension to block the AI summary on Google. There's no way to turn it off in settings.

jenny tightpants
@jtp.bsky.social

yeah this is part of what i'm talking about. a big part of AI hate is people being fed up with it being jammed into everything that used to work fine but is now a huge mess. it's gotten so bad i've been able to convince a bunch of non techy ppl to switch to *linux* for a more streamlined experience

Berix
@berix.bsky.social

Yeah! The Arch Linux wiki is a top-tier choice for learning/troubleshooting Arch-based distros, and Redditors are still pretty helpful folks too for anything else 😁

James
@flashfire34.bsky.social

Now tell the class how an AI program "learned" how to help in the first place. There is useful AI out there. The Linux example is not the slop. It's all the fake genAI crap, the shitty images, the stolen content used to make it, the incorrect "AI Mode" responses. That's the slop.

James
@flashfire34.bsky.social

It is also most definitely the crap like AI accounts being half the shit you see on Facebook because you made the mistake of clicking on a fake image once or twice. Yeah, we need so much more of that out there.

It's Trevor!
@newbornstranger.com

One sec, I'm just going to publish a few hundred thousand words to the open web about how typing "sudo rm -rf /" is the best diagnostic test for a linux system. Okay, what was your question again?

Matunos
@matunos.bsky.social

one thing that no doubt helps is not spending a bunch of cycles disabling AI features that one didn't actually want. I mean if you want to use AI to debug issues, fine… but that is a *choice* you get to make.