AI features are also Microsoft's excuse for trying to force customers into a $100/yr subscription model.

Yes, old news is now new news.

Seriously, this has been posted 4 times a day for 2 weeks now.

There is exactly one place where I want ai: in its browser window that's directed at the service of my choice (ideally something self hosted).

I don't want an ai sidebar.

I don't want ai search summaries.

I don't want ai assisted shopping.

I don't want ai snooping in my photo gallery.

I don't want ai in my emails.

And I don't want to watch other people's slop. I can prompt my own, fuck off.

This has been part 3 of a series of comments on my nuanced opinion regarding ai.

There is always a good argument for symplicity and AI is not simple and has uncertain security.

Similar thing with IDEs and editors when coding. I have always prefered an editor except when the IDE does exactly what I want which is often not the case.

Honestly, yeah - in the same way that being "completely offline" is also a feature in this day and age.

The deliberate exclusion of a feature can itself be a feature, especially when desirable to the group your product is aimed at.

With so many things if you want to use AI you can just use AI and input the result into whatever application you are using. Having these AI widgets built into everything is unnecessary and annoying. But of course the reason they exist is because they want you to use THEIR AI shit.

Documents are not transmitted to remote services for processing, and no component of the suite requires network access to function.

The tech sector needs to burn to the ground because this should be an absolute baseline, not a grand argument