I don't know what marketer needs to hear this, but every time you promote a new "#AI" feature it drives me *away* from your product.
A tool I haven't used? Hard pass.
A tool I've used and loved for years? Perhaps it's time to reevaluate our relationship.
Sure, I'm one person, but I'm certainly not alone.
AI needs to be something we seek, not something shoehorned into everything on the planet@stevegrunwell I've used iTerm2 on Macs since I started using a Mac. I know I need to opt-in to using AI on it, but just in case I've uninstalled it. Turns out the stock terminal isn't as bad as I remember and works just fine after the same amount of customization I do on a fresh iTerm2 install.
Why a terminal needs AI is beyond me. Will AI make pressing the up arrow to get to the command take fewer presses? I dunno, but I don't want AI there.
@omnicolor I held off on the upgrade for the same reasons.
FWIW the iTerm team has since removed the ChatGPT integration (you now have to install a separate extension to get it), so I'm back to upgrading, but if the built-in Terminal works for you then go for it!
@Sandywb @stevegrunwell it is.
For a couple more years picking up an iPhone 13 is an option that won’t have AI tomfoolery in Apple’s garden.
For ‘droid side sticking with offerings from folk like Fairphone and / or using degoogled versions of Android will be a pretty sure fire way to avoid it.
The hype finally tipped me over and away from Windows. And it was Adobe's antics. So there's a spillover effect too.
@stevegrunwell This a thousand times over. The moment a product has AI added to it my trust of that product immediately hits 0 and I start looking elsewhere.
I have no faith that AI-anything in products won't be data mined to hell and back. I ain't playing that game.
@stevegrunwell I'm with you.
I once paid an online memorial service to host my cousin's late husband's memorial page. It was a useful service, and a way to bring the family together in their time of grief.
Several months later, they sent me an excited marketing email about their new AI obituary writer. Totally grossed me out.
@spellucci holy shit!
“Now that you’ve mourned your loved one, it’s time to make plans for the next: our new ReaperAI will not only predict how you’ll die, but what you’ll need to be prepared!”
@stevegrunwell *this is after - around 6 or 7 years ago I bought a Kindle fire that was the only model they had without an AI of a digital assistant automatically enabled, a few months after purchase, against my repeated refusal to grant it permission to turn on, the AI came on anyways & within a week of my near continually being irked & spooked by this, it dropped from my bag (with my neuropathy I didn't notice it then) & I accidentally drove over it. Even as for a day or so in some regards I was a little more frantic to find it crushed, I was equally relieved, as said device that was disobeying my commands was destroyed.
It's a mainstay of why I no longer have an ebook reader either, as I don't want said mess to repeat itself & why I don't really accept things that are "just grant it permission",as it's not the only AI I've had that's turned itself on, without said permission.
@stevegrunwell it's the same set of medical conditions that make me need a rugged smartphone, to avoid destroying them rather quickly & similarly need to use other adaptations/equipment - like forearm crutches at least a month a year, so it was a happy accident but a real one nonetheless, talking me about 36 hours to realize what had happened.
I need tech that's physically durable, more specifically to 90°F annual temperature changes, 3-20 foot falls to concrete (the smaller the device the higher the fall tolerance) & at least humid air, preferably a cup of water spilled on it not ending it's functionality, not tech that makes me jump or trip & fall in being startled by turning on it's AI without my consent as it starts talk to me, or has an insect in it's touchscreen sensitivity switching apps to turn on a video which startles me just as much. These are very different things & more & more I'm getting the later instead of the former!
@stevegrunwell yesterday I uninstalled a terminal I'd used for a decade because they're adding AI to it.
The feature's optional, but that's not the point - the very fact they're introducing it suggests poor judgement.
@daedalouseros @stevegrunwell
I have been using "Hacker's Keyboard" since the days of Android 2.3 - for more than a decade it gave me a consistent virtual keyboard, with Tab / Ctrl / arrow keys, on devices from many manufacturers.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboard&hl=en_US
It's a lot of work to keep it compatible with Android, and now "it's possible that it will stop working on modern devices or will no longer be updateable via the Google Play store due to minimum API level requirements".
https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard
Specifically since the "AI" feature is either bogus, bad, just a grift to grab my data, or just a renamed feature that has existed for years.
@EA7KRC there are days I really miss my old flip phone. The LG Chocolate had media controls, expandable storage, AIM, and not much else.
Simpler times.
@stevegrunwell I shifted my entire laptop OS because of encroaching AI nonsense.
You are certainly not alone!
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