• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    4 hours ago

    Wouldn’t say they are anti-ai but at least you get the option to turn it off.

    Best you can hope for these days, really.

    The phone app I use to turn my lights on and off is now calling itself an “AI life assistant” and has an AI prompt box front and center that I can’t get rid of. But at least I can ignore that and still use the real function. Which, to be clear, is a fucking light switch. I use this app exclusively for turning a single light on or off. It does not need a LLM ‘assistant’ built in. But that’s just what you get these days – it’s shoved into everything.

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      3 hours ago

      Apparently I’m the Luddite here for sticking with the light switch on the wall that has always just worked. ;p

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        2 hours ago

        I exaggerate slightly, I guess. It turns the light on and off and also changes colors.

        It’s definitely possible to do color changing LED lighting without an app. Half of my room is lit that way, and I love it. But it’s more expensive and more complicated to install, so when I went for a second light, I just went with the app-controlled bullshit.