nixCraft 🐧Mar 11
People are now buying the Apple MacBook Neo ($599 cost) not because it's as cheap as a PC, but because they are fed up with Win11 and its obsession with Copilot. This proves once again that if you push people too far, they will choose an alternative that isn't obsessed with AI or treating paying customers as idiots in paid OS. It is like choosing between two evils. I say go further and *BSD or Linux desktop if you can and it helps you. https://www.pcmag.com/news/asus-co-ceo-macbook-neo-is-a-shock-to-the-pc-industry
Show threadNazoMar 11

@nixCraft Doesn't Apple do their own LLM stuff? (Please don't call LLMs "AI." It only helps those pushing the scam in further tricking people into thinking they are or can ever be "AI.") Or is that only on their phones and tablets? It has an option to turn it off, but last I heard it switches itself back on with every update and possibly sometimes just randomly.

Really, people leaving Microsoft for Apple is leaving the rock for the hard place. Apple is more tricky about what they do, but they're still the same thing in the end, and not just in that.

Show threadnixCraft 🐧
@nazokiyoubinbou yes, they are currently in choosing between the lesser of two evils, but as i said if you can you should move to Linux/bsd desktop provided that you have apps or you don't face any other issues like accessibility.
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Show threadNazoMar 11

@nixCraft My point is it isn't the lesser evil at all...

I'd argue that, by fooling people so well, Apple actually makes the greater evil.

Show threadMark RotteveelMar 12
@nixCraft I recently switched from Windows to Bazzite (because I also like gaming) with KDE Plasma. It's a Fedora-derivative, and I think it's closer to Windows than switching to macOS (which I used for a decade for my work).