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hbn 35 minutes ago [-]
I'll say they definitely need to let people disable/offload the model, but if you haven't tried the new Siri, it's been great. Obviously it's not a state of the art LLM, but it's good enough, and the fact that it can search and take actions on your local data makes it incredibly useful. I definitely use it more on my iPhone where it's slower to get things done the traditional way, but I use it all the time now.
"What was the quote for my insurance claim?" - it'll look through your emails and pull the number with the source email so you can jump right to it.
The other day I asked "when did I arrive and leave Mexico City on my trip at the end of 2024?" and it nailed it based off my flight receipt.
Since learning Spanish I get a lot more Spanish stuff in my feeds, and if I e.g. don't understand a meme I'll just ask "explain the joke here" and it reads the screen and explains it.
You can have an article open in Safari and say "remind me to read this tonight" and it'll make a reminder with the link. Or you can modify reminders - "move my reminder to get groceries to tomorrow at the same time". Yesterday I told it to make me a reminder and it did, but I worded it in a clunky way so I followed it with "reword that to sound more natural" and it did it.
We've been trained for a long time to think Siri can't do anything but I urge you to try it once you're on the new one, it's quite good. And I'm sure I've barely touched all the things it can do. David Pogue published a pretty thorough test other day:
Apple intelligence is listed as 29 GB in the Storage settings. Which should be the amount of space you get back.
MacOS 27 is also diffrent in that it does still downloads the data for EU users and removes or hides options in menues to dissable functionality. This means users lose the said space when upgrading to 27.
fundatus 31 minutes ago [-]
Apple Intelligence is available on macOS in the EU. It's only disabled on iOS/iPadOS.
Yeah, I’ll wait to update my computers until Apple gives us an actual choice.
kristofferR 50 minutes ago [-]
macOS 27 is way faster and more stable than macOS 26 though, so unless you are on an ancient version it doesn't make sense to not upgrade.
seam_carver 43 minutes ago [-]
macOS 15 still gets security updates.
CodingJeebus 43 minutes ago [-]
I've hit some really weird window/workspace UI bugs so far in MacOS27. It's not no-brainer update yet, IMO.
worldsavior 1 hours ago [-]
Though what about security fixes?
sleepybrett 43 minutes ago [-]
why is a local model any different than any other file they want to install with their os?
hbn 31 minutes ago [-]
Well because it could be an extra ~20GB which is not nothing if you have a 256GB disk.
njovin 25 minutes ago [-]
It's 14GB of something I don't want, need, nor have any use for, on a machine that is notorious for making storage upgrades difficult.
soapdog 28 minutes ago [-]
because some people don't want AI and would rather even the files were not present in their computer.
wahnfrieden 1 hours ago [-]
Time to permanently offboard from Apple ecosystem then
jtbayly 1 hours ago [-]
Perhaps eventually. I know I’m in a “closed ecosystem,” and that removes a fair bit of choice in a variety of places. But Apple is known to walk bad decisions back at times. This update is an example, with liquid glass. Another recent one was the iCloud private email planned domain change being scrapped.
lotsofpulp 3 hours ago [-]
This type of stuff gives me PTSD flashbacks from trying timo de-crapify Windows.
thewhitetulip 2 hours ago [-]
I am tired to fight against every platform that I have to use
De macify Mac
Degoogle Android
Demacify ipad
DeLLM chrome browsers local llm
Can we expect sane decisions from corpos about what we want rather than what latest thing they want to push on us?
agoodusername63 1 hours ago [-]
no. buy a linux compatible laptop and deal with the UX downgrade.
jhack 2 hours ago [-]
Apple says their users make 2.5B Siri requests per day. Sounds like people want it?
vitalrune 12 minutes ago [-]
The issue it's they make it very hard to remove it to clear the space used by it, i think you got to boot into recovery mode and do some risky crap, my macbook is almost out of space just from development cache..
tiborsaas 2 hours ago [-]
Do they have a breakdown for platforms? iOS vs. macOS, I'd bet most of it is iOS.
I don't have Siri enabled, I've never felt the need for it on desktop.
moribvndvs 2 hours ago [-]
Even though I do use it, a choice would be nice.
Hodgewocket 2 hours ago [-]
Are they aware?
javier2 57 minutes ago [-]
I dont even have Siri enabled, but even less so on macOS.
a1o 46 minutes ago [-]
If you have a car you are forced to because you can’t use Apple Car Play if you don’t enable Siri.
I also don’t use but I have to have it enabled to be able to use Google Maps, and Siri occasionally mistakes a conversation for being invited to listen and speak.
pesus 39 minutes ago [-]
I get forced to use it While using CarPlay. I don't particularly want it, though, considering it still regularly fails at basic tasks like adding the currently playing song to a playlist.
thewhitetulip 2 hours ago [-]
How many apple devices exist globally?
Does everyone use siri? How about keeping it opt-in?
GuinansEyebrows 2 hours ago [-]
i wonder how many of them are like 100% of my requests?
- "set a timer for 14 minutes"
- "remind me to make a doctor's appointment tomorrow at noon"
- "turn off the bedroom lights"
that don't require any form of AI and have functioned perfectly well (aside from having a hard time when i mumble) for years on non-AI versions of Siri?
thewebguyd 2 hours ago [-]
I suspect even some of the more "advanced" queries they demoed off, i.e., "what was that restaurant John and I talked about last week?" also not require LLMs whatsoever and could have been accomplished with a simple search.
anamexis 1 hours ago [-]
I think you're going to need some kind of ML to turn that question into a structured search, and interpret the results.
regenschutz 41 minutes ago [-]
Not necessarily. NLP is possible to do without any ML. See ELIZA [0] as an example, which used pattern matching and substitution to process natural language. A few simple rules can cover a majority of requests. It's still AI, but not ML.
Though I do agree that the ML-based NLP thst we have today is much more usable, albeit more compute-expensive.
This matches my use cases. Poor speech to text recognition so I don't trust siri to do anything non-trivial
mathisfun123 53 minutes ago [-]
> 2.5B Siri requests per day
that's like one request per day per user lolol
ezst 2 hours ago [-]
KDE. KDE is all you need.
Ginger-Pickles 1 hours ago [-]
One arguably don’t even need KDE any more; the coding models will throw together a perfectly adequate desktop environment.
regenschutz 46 minutes ago [-]
Why should one use something adequate when something amazing exists?
ezst 42 minutes ago [-]
Not sure what the point of this would be? Devalued street creds for running something nobody else does? Who cares?
basisword 2 hours ago [-]
You don't need to. Use the alternatives.
kotaKat 46 minutes ago [-]
without a reddit account:
... can you also force Siri off by using Screen Time controls? I noticed that in the Screen Time menus, "Content and Privacy" restrictions can be toggled on. From there seems to be an additional "Siri" menu that lets me change the allowed Siri version from Siri Classic to Siri AI as well as options to turn off the global writing tools/assistance (which turns off the annoying Siri bubble on every textbox now).
I suspect forcing Siri off via those controls would work easier than using Low Data Mode or trying to force Siri to disable via language selection.
"What was the quote for my insurance claim?" - it'll look through your emails and pull the number with the source email so you can jump right to it.
The other day I asked "when did I arrive and leave Mexico City on my trip at the end of 2024?" and it nailed it based off my flight receipt.
Since learning Spanish I get a lot more Spanish stuff in my feeds, and if I e.g. don't understand a meme I'll just ask "explain the joke here" and it reads the screen and explains it.
You can have an article open in Safari and say "remind me to read this tonight" and it'll make a reminder with the link. Or you can modify reminders - "move my reminder to get groceries to tomorrow at the same time". Yesterday I told it to make me a reminder and it did, but I worded it in a clunky way so I followed it with "reword that to sound more natural" and it did it.
We've been trained for a long time to think Siri can't do anything but I urge you to try it once you're on the new one, it's quite good. And I'm sure I've barely touched all the things it can do. David Pogue published a pretty thorough test other day:
https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri
MacOS 27 is also diffrent in that it does still downloads the data for EU users and removes or hides options in menues to dissable functionality. This means users lose the said space when upgrading to 27.
De macify Mac Degoogle Android Demacify ipad DeLLM chrome browsers local llm
Can we expect sane decisions from corpos about what we want rather than what latest thing they want to push on us?
I don't have Siri enabled, I've never felt the need for it on desktop.
I also don’t use but I have to have it enabled to be able to use Google Maps, and Siri occasionally mistakes a conversation for being invited to listen and speak.
Does everyone use siri? How about keeping it opt-in?
- "set a timer for 14 minutes"
- "remind me to make a doctor's appointment tomorrow at noon"
- "turn off the bedroom lights"
that don't require any form of AI and have functioned perfectly well (aside from having a hard time when i mumble) for years on non-AI versions of Siri?
Though I do agree that the ML-based NLP thst we have today is much more usable, albeit more compute-expensive.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
that's like one request per day per user lolol
... can you also force Siri off by using Screen Time controls? I noticed that in the Screen Time menus, "Content and Privacy" restrictions can be toggled on. From there seems to be an additional "Siri" menu that lets me change the allowed Siri version from Siri Classic to Siri AI as well as options to turn off the global writing tools/assistance (which turns off the annoying Siri bubble on every textbox now).
I suspect forcing Siri off via those controls would work easier than using Low Data Mode or trying to force Siri to disable via language selection.