Finally a useful feature (no)

Literally no one asked for this.
- Don't question the tech, bro, and the tech bros.
- Microsoft is asking for it. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112500/microsoft-ai-pc-intel-windows-copilot-key-requirements

This reminds me of the crypto/NFT days where everyone and their brother added a special "blockchain" feature in their product, even when it didn't make sense or was completely unnecessary.
- At least that can be turned off in updates.
  All these hardware additions, the AI buttons, even Windows taking away the right CTRL key for Copilot, are ugly appendages that, in 20 years, when were clearing out the equipment closest, we'll see some of these and go "oh yeah remember when that bullshit was as a thing for a few years?"
- Those days? That was a couple of weeks ago.

This is like when Roku remotes had the Blockbuster button on them.

Silicon Valley is honestly worthless.
We have an entire industry based on innovations that are 30-50 years old.
How long until Wall street finds a new investment vehicle and San Francisco is the next Detroit?

It's just like ten years ago when everything was about "the cloud". I can't wait for the industry to move on to another gimmick to force down the consumer's throat.
- Block chain, anyone?
  
  Satoshi is just some dude at NVIDIA
- The cloud at least made a bit of sense. Offload the requirements of hosting an app or colocating a server to other folks, and you just use it. It's somebody else's computer, and it's their problem if something goes wrong.
  The problem is that the MBAs making the decision didn't understand what was going on in the first place, so "the cloud" because a catch-all buzzword for anything they didn't want to think too hard about.
- I mean... having a chokehold on cloud computing is still very much a source of the dominance US and Chinese companies have to shape world markets these days...

Fucking ai on a mouse... Maybe we need AI in my toaster next
- Does anyone want any toast? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec
  
  So what is it?

At first you wonder if this is real or fake, then you look it up.
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/mice/signature-ai-edition-m750-wireless-mouse.910-007396.html

What the fuck happened to "make the buttons do whatever you want"?
- It do whatever you want (but ai)
  
  Sounds like a latency add. I get pissed off when my sensor has angle snapping, prediction, smoothing, or the z-axis bug. I'm the guy who gets in the gmmk customer service and goes full Karen because their very nice spec sheet still doesn't tell me what I want to know and it took some trying to get them to ask their dev team.
  I'm not making this up. I don't wanna ever have the convenient excuse of blaming the controls. https://www.esreality.com/post/2677965/re-mice-using-flawless-sensors-v2/

I just got an MX Master 3S and it's a wonderful mouse, but the Logi Options+ software is fucking TERRIBLE. God it's bad. They are definitely pushing this AI prompt builder nonsense, but the mouse itself just stops working for long periods of time and the the Options+ interface says that the mouse is "unavailable", even though it's right there and I can physically see it with my eyes and move it around with my hands. My computer says it's still connected via Bluetooth, but no, this thing that wants me to create a mouse account and use an additional AI prompt builder says the mouse doesn't work. I ran across a 3rd party program that lets me map the additional buttons on the mouse to the functions I like and am able to get by just fine without any Logitech software at all, and the mouse always works now. This mouse feels like they just accidentally made good hardware in spite of themselves.
- I had to use third party software to assign the buttons on my Logitech trackball because their own software didn't recognize it.
- Haven't had as bad of a time with Options+ but it still sucks. It somehow acts like it's connecting to some piece of complex and archaic industrial test equipment as opposed to a brand new mouse. It often takes longer than a Windows update and restarting the computer. It also causes way more cpu load while idle than could ever be considered reasonable.
  Options was ok, it still had issue and still wanted an account, but it would at least just connect, update, close etc.

Don't forget the part where Logitech now requires you to use a web app (that only works on Chromium) to adjust settings or pair dongles now.
Just find a new peripheral manufacturer.
- I'm not defending them here but I use a company-provided Logitech keyboard and mouse and there is dedicated software (called Logi Options+)
  I don't think it needs Internet access and it definitely doesn't run in a browser. I downloaded it with Firefox

FFS Logitech, all you had to do was release a redesign of the g600 mouse, how hard is that?

I'd love to know how much time and money was wasted on this.
- Tree Fiddy
  
  I ain't givin' no AI shortcut button no tree fiddy!

Not that I would ever buy it, but I can totally picture myself accidentally pressing that button all the fucking time.

"Logi AI prompt Builder". Guess it's time to sell my Logitech stocks

For those times when you need a tomboy in Counter strike
- Whole new meaning to toggling now I guess?
  “HAL, eco-buy and camp long B”
- hey

I'm waiting for my combination AI/blockchain/cordless blender, so I can't even use it because it had a brainfart while trying to make an NFT of my smoothie, dropped its' internet connection and now it won't even charge.

the fuck does it do?
- Loads some chatgpt bloatware of theirs.

NVIDIA stock to the fucking ground!
Ugh

- My WebEx client (a program for making phone calls and text messages) added a damned AI button last week.
  Why!?
  
  Why? Because they can and some c suite said to do it because buzzwords.
  Turns out, it is actually kinda useful for summarizing conversations and bringing you up to speed.

We need a "the future were headed towards" meme with a keyboard that's all AI assistant buttons and no QWERTY

FFS Logitech

Sadly you can use the app on Linux, so no rebinding.
I got a G-502 lightning so... Yeah... I like buttons

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/bofh_2024_episode_11/ "the boss wants an AI pc. This wouldn't rankle as much if the boss had any "I" of his own to work with"
- Simon has been doing this for 30ish years and that one is still spot on. I dig the purple light, too.
  
  I used to go through binges of reading the archives; amazing he’s still writing these!

F-ck those superflous buttons. I've got a mouse with an extra button on the left side. Otherwise, this is a good mouse, but someone had the stupid idea of putting this button where it can easily be activated with a brush of the thumb, and another had the equally stupid idea to make the default function the "back" in the browser.

Ew

lmao at them trying.

I've made a quantum leap in food technology: I have invented french fries with a dedicated AI... let's say napkin. Not like it matters. It costs 450 dollars per month and requires the area of a small town's worth of rain forest to be razed in order to produce a single one. What does it do, you ask? It's AI, it does AI things, you bumpkin. You wouldn't understand with your uncultured peasant brain but if you're not on board, the evolution of civilisation will leave you behind in an instant.

Meanwhile the MX combo can't fucking switch both devices between computers using the keyboard button. Still have to change it on both, like yeah I really want to turn my mouse over and I really care about being able to independently switch the two of them.