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  • They need an option to completely disable and delete Apple Intelligence.

    A 256GB Mac Mini is effectively unable to use macOS 27 due to this bloated nonsense.

    by VCFundedGenYer
  • This type of stuff gives me PTSD flashbacks from trying timo de-crapify Windows.
    by lotsofpulp
  • How much storage does this save?
    by ebtebt
  • Tangentially related, I've always been frustrated by Apple's refusal to allow sorting photos/videos by file size. It feels like a blatant push to force users towards paying for their cloud storage.
    by jleehn
  • Yeah, I’ll wait to update my computers until Apple gives us an actual choice.
    by jtbayly
  • Worth pointing out that the Foundational Models can be used by more than just Siri - apps, shortcuts, etc can call/run those models for local inference.
    by happyopossum
  • 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:

    https://pogueman.substack.com/p/125-tests-of-the-new-ai-siri

    by hbn

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