Most notably in allowing for different peripherals for the task to be always attached

But I like being able to do cross-disciplinary things on one device. I think it being general purpose is part of the point.

Psst, @atlassian.bsky.social this is about u.

What really got me to start looking in the first place was it ending every request with a "by the way" that was either an ad or a recommended voice command. You can turn it off, but the fact that got turned on and behavior changed long after they were setup really grinds my gears.

I am just so tired of having to talk to it with accentuated spaces. Between. Words. Alexa. Turn. Off. The. Lights.

I'm already planning on replacing it with a local box running the Home assistant stack, but previously hadn't because it worked and I honestly didn't think I could do better.

I never would've thought Alexa getting worse at voice recognition would be what puts me over the edge.

It's not just me, either. My SO and parents have been complaining about it too. We're all from the Midwest, so it's not as if we have an accent that has a vowel shift or blurs words

It's amazing how much code I see that's copy-paste hell or just pile upon piles of technical debt that is making for fires to be put out on the weekly instead of actual progress

Like, unironically, I absolutely can't justify $20/mo on AI BS. But you know what I could justify a $250 yearly license on? Stable software. If you told me I could pay that and get a modern OS with 11's software library but 7's stability and consistent UI, with Linux's deep control? Instant customer

What I don't understand is it can't possibly be good business sense, right? Like, at some point, people don't care about the new features, they just want their shit to work. Why drop billions on AI bullshit when you could invest in making your product un-touchably rock solid.

I remember seeing this back in the day, going from 8 to 10. This is not giving a shit. I cant attribute this to incompetence when we see it in program after program. Its malice on the part of the managers and tech firms that prioritize new features over going back and making the shit they have work

14: If there's no way to back it up, fuck off.

That includes DRM/Activation.

15: If an action actually can't be performed because of something else, don't give me a cutesy error, tell me what the fuck happened.

If there is lag in moving my mouse, I am pissed.

13: If an endpoint doesn't have a consistent ID and no way to give it one, it can fuck off. COM# changing? Dynamic IPs? Nah, fuck you. Everything should always be deterministic. In this house, we know what paths go where or they get killed.

etc. - then don't. Just fucking don't.
I care much more about the page loading quickly and not moving after initial draw than your AI bullshit.
12: If the OS ever, ever, ever lets anything lock up the system, it fucked up. The OS should prioritize user input and output above all.