People aren't anti-AI because of model performance. They're anti-AI because LLMs are being shoved into absolutely everything.

So yes, this is also about Copilot, but not in the way you think it is.

There's multiple reasons. An older family member told me she dislikes AI because she's worried it will give her wrong information or make stuff up.

The hallucination issue put a big dent in AI's reputation for non-technical older people who do not take kindly to being lied to by a machine.

I live in the Mac world. LLMs aren't shoved into absolutely everything. I do not have experience with Windows.

Maybe, but LLMs solve but one issue (maybe two). Take me, for example. I am highly proficient regarding software development in most aspects. Except for that tiny problem: I wouldn't even know what to build. And at least for me, LLMs could not help with that.

The whole side project or even private project thing doesn't just hinge on being able to produce software. There's a lot more.

Well, yes, DuckDuckGo is not Google. You have to accept that. Not just surface-level, but for real.

What made this easy for me is that Google is also no longer Google. Ever since it started basically ignoring my actual search query, I stopped using it. I used to be very good at using Google, too.

DuckDuckGo is quite bad at times, yes. But then, so is Google. If I need to find something I cannot put into search terms, LLMs are helpful. From my trial experience I would say Kagi is also a capable search machine, for some niches.

It's not just local apps that are potential consumers of this information. Websites would also be interested.

The "why" is also clear: deflecting/shifting responsibility.

Yeah, same. I use an extended keyboard layout on my PC. I'm so used to it I have to actively decide against using proper quotes and dashes and whatnot. I don't bother on mobile, though.

Every time someone states they stop reading when they encounter proper typography, I feel attacked.

Highly unlikely they did. Just because it’s in the privacy notice doesn’t mean they actually gather or store this information.

And indeed, fingerprints are only accessible using privileged access. Not even you, the passport holder, has access.

They probably did not. Privacy notices are usually written by non-technical people. They include a lot more than what is actually stored. I’d also be very surprised if they actually interacted with the digital passport (NFC) as part of the process.

I was once part of the process of creating one. After two rounds, business decided too much money is wasted here and all the nonsense will stay. Better to have too much listed than too little.

They won't do anything. Had this exact scenario with two Shopify-based sites where my address somehow ended up with the second shop. Reported it, shop 1 investigated themselves and found themselves to be innocent, case closed.

Shopify shares these I think, no?

That would be illegal. I doubt Shopify are to blame here, it's more likely one of the gazillion plugins that every shop uses was the vector. Either way, it's highly likely the shop owner is the data controller, from a legal perspective.

(Scenario: E-Mail address A with shop A, address B with shop B, then received a newsletter I did not subscribe to [already illegal] from shop B to address A. Only common data point: PayPal account.)

You can have that, and in an even better way: Simply disable the blight that is Windows 11 context menus and go back to real context menus.

I’m not even joking, they are basically superior in every way. They open faster, they have only one visual axis and they support all the shell extensions you remember. (Too many shell extensions could make them just as slow though.)

It’s not. And it gets worse. A WinGet package can suddenly be introduced for software you have already installed and then the next "update all" will install whatever. Could be something completely different!

WinGet is not only unreliable, it is but one step removed from Remote Code Execution as a Service. Well, maybe one-and-a-half, if package repo maintainers were to pay attention, but that’s not realistic.