This reminds me of the crypto/NFT days where everyone and their brother added a special “blockchain” feature in their product, even when it didn’t make sense or was completely unnecessary.
At least that can be turned off in updates.
All these hardware additions, the AI buttons, even Windows taking away the right CTRL key for Copilot, are ugly appendages that, in 20 years, when were clearing out the equipment closest, we’ll see some of these and go “oh yeah remember when that bullshit was as a thing for a few years?”
Those days? That was a couple of weeks ago.
Literally no one asked for this.
Don’t question the tech, bro, and the tech bros.
Microsoft is asking for it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112500/microsoft-ai-pc-intel-windows-copilot-key-requirements
It’s just like ten years ago when everything was about “the cloud”. I can’t wait for the industry to move on to another gimmick to force down the consumer’s throat.
Block chain, anyone?
Satoshi is just some dude at NVIDIA
The cloud at least made a bit of sense. Offload the requirements of hosting an app or colocating a server to other folks, and you just use it. It’s somebody else’s computer, and it’s their problem if something goes wrong.
The problem is that the MBAs making the decision didn’t understand what was going on in the first place, so “the cloud” because a catch-all buzzword for anything they didn’t want to think too hard about.
I mean… having a chokehold on cloud computing is still very much a source of the dominance US and Chinese companies have to shape world markets these days…
This is like when Roku remotes had the Blockbuster button on them.
Silicon Valley is honestly worthless.
We have an entire industry based on innovations that are 30-50 years old.
How long until Wall street finds a new investment vehicle and San Francisco is the next Detroit?
Don’t forget the part where Logitech now requires you to use a web app (that only works on Chromium) to adjust settings or pair dongles now.
Just find a new peripheral manufacturer.
I’m not defending them here but I use a company-provided Logitech keyboard and mouse and there is dedicated software (called Logi Options+)
I don’t think it needs Internet access and it definitely doesn’t run in a browser. I downloaded it with Firefox
What the fuck happened to “make the buttons do whatever you want”?
It do whatever you want (but ai)
Sounds like a latency add. I get pissed off when my sensor has angle snapping, prediction, smoothing, or the z-axis bug. I’m the guy who gets in the gmmk customer service and goes full Karen because their very nice spec sheet still doesn’t tell me what I want to know and it took some trying to get them to ask their dev team.
I’m not making this up. I don’t wanna ever have the convenient excuse of blaming the controls. https://www.esreality.com/post/2677965/re-mice-using-flawless-sensors-v2/
You could have gotten the same result without being an asshole…
Do you see that 5 there? That’s how many emails went back and forth. I tried the “not being an asshole” and got brushed off.
Ah, yes. I remember when I was young enough to believe that being polite gets you attention instead of the brush-off.
“Logi AI prompt Builder”. Guess it’s time to sell my Logitech stocks
Fucking ai on a mouse… Maybe we need AI in my toaster next
Does anyone want any toast? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
So what is it?
It’s sliced bread that has been browned by radiant heat, triggering the Maillard reaction, making the surface firmer, crispy, and altering its flavour profile with caramelized sugars.
Not that I would ever buy it, but I can totally picture myself accidentally pressing that button all the fucking time.
At first you wonder if this is real or fake, then you look it up.
I just got an MX Master 3S and it’s a wonderful mouse, but the Logi Options+ software is fucking TERRIBLE. God it’s bad. They are definitely pushing this AI prompt builder nonsense, but the mouse itself just stops working for long periods of time and the the Options+ interface says that the mouse is “unavailable”, even though it’s right there and I can physically see it with my eyes and move it around with my hands. My computer says it’s still connected via Bluetooth, but no, this thing that wants me to create a mouse account and use an additional AI prompt builder says the mouse doesn’t work. I ran across a 3rd party program that lets me map the additional buttons on the mouse to the functions I like and am able to get by just fine without any Logitech software at all, and the mouse always works now. This mouse feels like they just accidentally made good hardware in spite of themselves.
Haven’t had as bad of a time with Options+ but it still sucks. It somehow acts like it’s connecting to some piece of complex and archaic industrial test equipment as opposed to a brand new mouse. It often takes longer than a Windows update and restarting the computer. It also causes way more cpu load while idle than could ever be considered reasonable.
Options was ok, it still had issue and still wanted an account, but it would at least just connect, update, close etc.
I had to use third party software to assign the buttons on my Logitech trackball because their own software didn’t recognize it.
FFS Logitech, all you had to do was release a redesign of the g600 mouse, how hard is that?
the fuck does it do?
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/bofh_2024_episode_11/ “the boss wants an AI pc. This wouldn’t rankle as much if the boss had any “I” of his own to work with”
Simon has been doing this for 30ish years and that one is still spot on. I dig the purple light, too.
I used to go through binges of reading the archives; amazing he’s still writing these!
I had no idea it was still going. I used to binge these working midnight shifts in the NOC.
