Looking at new phone cases today and there’s are some that “have ‘AI’.” It’s just a marketing buzzword now. Like “green” or “cloud” or “blockchain”
All this “AI” shoehorned into everything is making me increasingly want a phone that does absolutely none of that. No LLMs and especially no assistants that scrape my phone and upload things to their servers to “process ai requests in the cloud”
@roguecnidarian I mentioned this somewhere before, but this is kinda what led to me dusting off my (homebrewed, well-cared-for) 3DS (pedantic: New 2DS XL).
Especially compared to the whole always-on, your-console-is-a-cloud-client model of newer tech, having stuff be fully offline, having full confidence in my data, and having it just work is... fucking liberating right now.
@roguecnidarian Like, I think that we kind of peaked at that idea that portable devices could be allowed to be offline some or most of the time. And so much of the software-as-a-service-but-AI-to-sell-your-data-back-to-you brainrot comes from giving that up.