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Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all (www.heise.de)
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[–] 2 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

Exactly. I have always had Siri turned off, ever since my very first apple devices, and never had a reason to turn it on. Same with all the AI features. I don't want them so I keep all AI options turned off, always.

I still have a couple devices on the cloud but only for shit I don't actually care about, and whenever I get around to cleaning those up I'll get rid of it there as well. Still on the original 5GB, too: I don't believe in paying others to store my data when I can and should store it myself.

When it comes down to it I don't even know why I started turning all that shit off, beyond the fact I found it annoying to speak twice (or more) when I could just quietly type once. I'm no prescient genius, but I am now very glad of whatever luddite instinct made me shut it all off, lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

    I turned it all off as even to this day, I use obsolete kit. My newest Mac is a 2010 MacBook Pro, running dosdude1's unsupported Mojave, as I require the 32-bit support for my ancient copy of Photoshop CS3. Siri was a non-starter and I just brought that habit forward when I got my iPhone. I wouldn't say it's being a Luddite so much as it is making my machines run as quickly as they can with the OSes I installed. Gotta cut the telemetry and cloud shit out as much as possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago

    Great minds think alike: I have a MBP only a few years younger running the exact same OS, but for CS5. I use old hardware for as long as I can keep it running. But yeah, all the bloat gets cut out or off, first thing. The MBP doesn't even hit the wider net unless I specifically allow it, so it makes sense to turn off anything that is forever phoning home (aside from the CS5). It's great having old machines like these around.

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  • [–] 2 points 19 hours ago

    The only useful things I miss with Siri is starting timers when cooking, running quick match and conversions, and texting my wife that I’m on my way home when I forget to do it before starting to drive. All of those I can do without it, but I can’t deny was useful hands-free.

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