Fer fucks sake Canonical, read the room.
this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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Sadly, Lemmy nerds do not constitute the whole room. Your perception is influenced by everyone here vomiting up a constant stream of anti-slop comments.
Looks like my Ubuntu machine won't be running Ubuntu for much longer.
Better out-of-the-box text-to-speech voices would be very welcome. The defaults are pretty painfully robotic... (Try spd-say "Hello world" if you don't know what I mean.)
Trivial to use on-device dictation software could also be useful.
The capabilities of models like qwen3.6 to do things like on-device image analysis are pretty incredible if you have hardware capable of running it -- I've run it on a Framework Desktop -- but I have no desire to expose my systems directly to AI agents. That's just asking for trouble... If an AI agent can fuck up, it will fuck up eventually, and I'd rather it not have the ability to delete my files when it does.
By Odin's beard.... Ill have to switch to a new distro. Avoiding AI shit is one of the main reasons to use linux