Inclusion of AI isn’t meant to be a selling point to product buying customers but to convince retail investors who throw money at anything with AI into buying up shares of stock.

And some companies like NVIDIA and micron have reached a point where retail customer revenue is a rounding error compared to direct corporate sales, so there’s no need to cater them and for some no need to even sell to retail customers anymore.

As things get more expensive it helps create a rental economy, so people having to rent leads to companies able to make money selling to companies that are making money providing subscription services to consumers who have been priced out.

Kind of like the housing market in a way.

Extent of my comfort with AI is through website and interaction is limited to copy and paste or upload. Capabilities not running on a system level.

But, when it comes to actually running on hardware and being able to do things by reading what is on the screen or hearing what is said I don’t trust AI to be secure or privacy respecting. When it comes to that type of functionality I’ll only trust ones that is compiled myself to run locally as opposed to provided by a corporations who are largely in the business of data collection.

Been wondering the same. If the console gets opened up I’ll be rushing to get a PS5 to get one with old firmware that hasn’t had the exploit patched out.

You just come off as unusually worked up about the Microsoft criticisms is why I ask.

Its not even a lemmy thing exclusive either. From reddit to youtube there’s been lot of criticism of the direction of consumer Windows 11 that there’s people providing guides now on getting LTSC.

Are you upset at people criticizing Microsoft? Is that the point you are trying to make?

Switch to Windows LTSC. Doesn’t have copilot, no store, no onedrive, no candy crush and tiktok on a fresh install, and no need to figure out an account bypass.

Its the closest thing to what Windows was up to Windows 7 of a boring OS that you use to launch programs without it trying to be helpful or encourage you to login to an account.

Steam Xperia Linux phone would be a dream. I think if a Steam phone did well then other companies like Asus would jump into Linux phone.

Then suddenly we get mainstream alternatives to Android.