macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage

ebtebt•7 minutes ago

How much storage does this save?

jtbayly•about 1 hour ago

Yeah, I’ll wait to update my computers until Apple gives us an actual choice.

kristofferR•3 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.

worldsavior•16 minutes ago

Though what about security fixes?

wahnfrieden•27 minutes ago

Time to permanently offboard from Apple ecosystem then

jtbayly•17 minutes 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.

thih9•about 1 hour ago

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wrxd•13 minutes ago

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thescriptkiddie•31 minutes ago

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lotsofpulp•about 2 hours ago

This type of stuff gives me PTSD flashbacks from trying timo de-crapify Windows.

thewhitetulip•about 1 hour 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•25 minutes ago

no. buy a linux compatible laptop and deal with the UX downgrade.

ezst•44 minutes ago

KDE. KDE is all you need.

Ginger-Pickles•33 minutes ago

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

jhack•about 1 hour ago

Apple says their users make 2.5B Siri requests per day. Sounds like people want it?

javier2•10 minutes ago

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

tiborsaas•about 1 hour 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.

mathisfun123•5 minutes ago

> 2.5B Siri requests per day

that's like one request per day per user lolol

moribvndvs•about 1 hour ago

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

Hodgewocket•about 1 hour ago

Are they aware?

thewhitetulip•44 minutes ago

How many apple devices exist globally?

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

GuinansEyebrows•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour 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.

exographicskip•about 1 hour ago

This matches my use cases. Poor speech to text recognition so I don't trust siri to do anything non-trivial

basisword•about 1 hour ago

You don't need to. Use the alternatives.

macOS 27: Workaround to avoid downloading AI models and save storage

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