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Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery (www.neowin.net)
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[–] 55 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Well, stupid people want it and they do use it when its shoved in their face. Like how samsung updated and BLATANTLY made their peice of shit AI button TAKE OVER THR POWER BUTTON so when you try to turn off your phone little old granny gets confused that an ai agent pops up and starts recording you. Absolutely infuriating and I wish torture on whoever implemented that shit.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Like how samsung updated and BLATANTLY made their peice of shit AI button TAKE OVER THR POWER BUTTON

    Was that part of OneUI 7? I'm so glad I never installed that downgrade.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It was. I'm struggling to find anything that was an actual improvement in the UI. Most of the changes were trivial and change for change's sake; but some were awful, and none are clearly better.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's not a new updated it's been that way for years.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bixby was not llm based, originally, and sometimes updates will rewrite a user's custom settings. For instance, I had a galaxy on which I made pushing the power button three times turn on the flashlight. An update occurred that overrode that setting by deleting it and turned on five presses to call 911. I ended up accidently calling 911 at 3am (accompanied by a blasting alarm sound) trying not to wake someone by turning on the light.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Bixby was not llm based

    I'm not really sure how that really makes any difference though. I'm not defending their decision I'm just saying that it's been around for a while now.

    I've just pressed my power button five times and it does call, what I'm assuming is, emergency number. It's the wrong one for my country (genius Samsung) so God knows what that would actually do, but it doesn't auto call I have to actually press the call button. Maybe they received some user feedback?

    Seems a bit pointless given the fact that I have to press the button five times to call the emergency services but their phone number is only three digits long.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    That's goofy as hell that the emergency number isn't localized. I think the idea that pressing a physical button 5 times quickly is faster than having to look at the phone and select options. Idk, though, I don't use it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    No my s23 has no bixby buttons. Just power and 2 volume. Samsung DELIBERATELY updated so the POWER BUTTON activated their shitty agent. Only software shutdown was avilable until I changed.

    Getting a linux phone when this dies. Fuck samsung.

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