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Like all macos features you used to like/depend on...

"privacy is a right"

becomes

privacy is a "defaults write <obscure-key>"

Not sure if I want Siri to know my prescription medication.

The Apple Intelligence Shortcuts creation is great as well. I never had a desire to learn their visual programming language so I mostly ignored Shortcuts. Now it's one-shot some really handy utilities for me.

Not the Gmail app, but a Gmail account, yes. You have to at least have the default Mail app installed and signed in for it to be able to index the emails.

I was skipping Tahoe too after seeing all those posts about the differently rounded corners.

This time I took the plunge and upgraded, and I have to admit the whole system, especially Safari is much more snappy than before.

Being short on disk space is a pretty good reason to not upgrade.

I would rather keep my personal picture library on my local disk (with backups, of course) than gigabytes and gigabytes of Apple models.

They were the ones who thought that 256Gb was a reasonable number. And it actually did work pretty well, until they wanted to fill it with models.

On one of my machines, I don’t know if I could even make it fit. So it’s a no-brainer to not update on that one, if they are going to force an extra 14GB download on me.

macOS 15 still gets security updates.

I've hit some really weird window/workspace UI bugs so far in MacOS27. It's not no-brainer update yet, IMO.

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.

Well because it could be an extra ~20GB which is not nothing if you have a 256GB disk.

By that logic why not fill the hard drive with OS data? This is a company mind you that still sells some laptops with a base configuration of 256GB, so 10-20GB isn't an insignificant amount to many users especially when it's taken by a feature they may not even use.

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.

because some people don't want AI and would rather even the files were not present in their computer.

Friendly reminder:

Many apps (like dictation apps) ship with their own models totally separate from Apple Intelligence.

For example, Co-Typist [1] is very useful, but it requires a model installed with it, ranging from Gemma 3 1B at 0.8 GB to Gemma 4 26B A4B Pro at 15.7 GB. It recommended Gemma E2B (3.2 GB) for my 16 GB, M1 Pro MacBook Pro.

It works really well; the autocompletion is so good, it knows what I'm going to type before I do!

Here's the thing: you may not be aware of the amount of storage being used by models in various 3rd-party apps.

The open-source app What The Model [2] scans your machine and reports all the models it finds and gives you the total amount of storage being used.

[1]: https://cotypist.app

[2]: https://github.com/powtac/wtm

Apple Intelligence is available on macOS in the EU. It's only disabled on iOS/iPadOS.

That's not a reliable source or reference. Read the disclaimer at the bottom.

If you meant this extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... - it doesn't work. I still get the javascript crappified "new" Reddit.

There are definitely some cool features missing, but I'd take KDE over any other window manager without a second thought if it were possible.

What downgrade? A typical Gnome desktop is far more coherent than Windows or even macOS in some regards these days.

One arguably don’t even need KDE any more; the coding models will throw together a perfectly adequate desktop environment.

Timers. Easily >50% of these requests are people setting timers.

Never met anyone who used siri out in public, to be honest.

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.

Even though I do use it, a choice would be nice.

Are they aware?

I dont even have Siri enabled, but even less so on macOS.

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?

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.

How many apple devices exist globally?

Does everyone use siri? How about keeping it opt-in?

> 2.5B Siri requests per day

that's like one request per day per user lolol

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..