Samsung is working on a new AI experience for its devices that will help you use your phone without ever accessing the Settings menu.

Samsung is working on a new AI experience for its devices that will help you use your phone without ever accessing the Settings menu.

  • @ChocoboRocketEnglish
    36•2 months ago

    I fully hear you and agree.

    Every 5 days there’s a software update, for something that just changes one or two things slightly - but rarely if ever is it an improvement.

    Oh, you want to do this simple thing you were able to easily do 3 days ago?

    Now you have to change 4 nondescript settings, use 3 separate hotkey commands, watch a YouTube video, and troubleshoot for hours to get a once basic function to preform correctly.

    I’d bet that the AI system will be used exclusively to identify + paywall things you’ll want/need to use your phone.

    seems like you want volume control, based on your history you want 1% volume. Subscribe to" basic functions" package to unlock a volume option. Upgrade to “basic functions premium” for up to 5 volume adjustments a week!

    Still not enough AI control? The “basic functions unlimited” fully unlocks both volume buttons and for a limited time unlocks the spacebar for 5 minutes an hour from midnight to 6am!

    • @[email protected]English
      12•2 months ago

      Most of the software updates you see are a result of CI/CD processes. The industry claims it makes good design patterns to get features our faster and more reliably. In reality it is just a rushed shitstorm that results in half-assed Friday releases that aren’t fixed until the following week.

      I’ve long turned off auto update of my apps. Too many times I’m on a trip or other scenario where my tool is meant to be a tool and not some tech bro’s rented wet dream, and the tool is broken.

      But here’s the kicker. CI/CD exists for another reasons or so:

      • Frequent updates tend to reset review rankings in app stores. Not only does it offer plausible deniability to the app company, but it also screws with the review scores in their favor, as well as other rankings.
      • Great way to help nudge along planned obsolescence. All that pointless rewriting of flash storage on a daily basis.
      • Psychological manipulation, it gets notifications in your face to try and increase app engagement, which ensures it is fresh and running gathering user telemetry to sell as a side-hustle, as well as direct-interaction telemetry and getting more ads in your face.

      It’d be better if we all just went back to landline phones some days. Modern tech is too noisy, abusive, and intrusive.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 months ago

        CI/CD processes.

        What does this stand for, and what are these (in layman’s terms anyway, not expecting a deep dive)?

        • @[email protected]English
          12•2 months ago

          Continous integration/ Continous delivery basically they keep pushing the latest developments as soon as it’s avaliable and passes the tests.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•2 months ago

              My favorite podcast app, Overcast, recently had a huge overhaul and it went from working perfectly to being utter broken garbage for a couple months.

              They definitely didn’t do tests. I think they just rushed it out to meet some deadline.

              It’s usable now, but it was really gnar for a while.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 months ago

          Old software - Do an annual release but make that release as bug-free as possible

          New software using CI/CD - Push software updates as fast as possible to show high productivity. Bugs? We will get them in the “next” update.