Linux has no AI features
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2026
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TLDR: it's a """news""" article about a Reddit post and does not remotely represent the average Apple user
futurism.com "articles" as we know them. I don't care if they are in line with my views or not. It is cheap engagement slop.
What! This is outrageous! Or Acceptable! I don't even know anymore. Thanks Algorithm!
I am whelmed
I’d love for a law that made it illegal to use “X users” and require absolute numbers.
Is all rage bait. 500 real users on a forum isn’t a useful cohort.
There are dozens of us!
DOZENS!!!
How is this rage bait? It is simply properly used English language...??
Edit: To the lurking downvoters: Since when people started interpreting "mac users" to mean (according to the context here) semi-all? A qualifier of "some" i guess is what you would like, but it's not incorrect.
It's proper to just say "mac users", or for example "fishermen use worms as bait". Or maybe you'll like this example more: "linux users write open-source firmware for wifi routers"
Apparently an unpopular opinion here but I highly appreciate the move by Apple to embrace local AI. Sure it’s not perfect in any sense, but I like the direction.
Even for the off-device stuff it usually gives a direct answer, without fluffing up the user, and almost always mentions double checking validity or speaking to a professional for advice (such as medical advice).
I don’t need to tell people here how terrible AI like ChatGPT is at confidently misleading people and pretending to be a users friend.
I don't think that's unpopular at all. Local AI is the only AI future worth pursuing.
Same here. Local is not the problem. Control is.
I’m curious what this tool does that is different from turning off Apple Intelligence in the Settings because they already give you some degree of control.
The problem is there is no single switch to turn it off. You have to go to each nook and cranny in the settings and toggle a switch. And if you miss anything, that 20 something gigabytes of space doesn’t free up. I’m all for local AI features, but it should be a one toggle switch to turn it off or remove it.
The reddit user featured in the article had to create a script to automate it and keep it off.
But not curious enough to read the second sentence of this article.
Disk space it seems.
No.
I highly doubt it. Knowing apple users its a small minority of technical users doing this while rhe rest of users happily outsource thinking to siri and apple intelligence
The only people I know who use macOS are technical in a domain
I don’t know where the reputation of Mac users don’t know how to use a computer comes from
I know one single person who uses a Mac as a personal device that isn’t involved in some sort of deep internet technology field. He works in biotechnology and got tired of wasting time and effort on Windows problems.
As for the rest? They use windows systems every day for work, where they’re often either fixing the internet or fixing people’s windows computers. They just prefer Mac for personal use.
I’ve begun to feel like people who trash talk Mac users are the ones who aren’t technically capable - or at least not adaptable. I can fix almost any Mac or Windows issue, and can muddle through most *nix problems. I just don’t want that to be my identity. I got more important things to do.
I’ve had the same MacBook Pro for 5 years now. I code on it, do graphic design, 3d model, play Steam games, and obviously use it as an internet device. It’s never given me a problem, and I imagine it’ll keep going for at least another 3-5 years. It’s fucking awesome, and “just works.”
My parents have used Macs exclusively for the last 20 years or so because they don’t require much technical knowledge. Before ChromeOS, smartphones, and tablets, they were the closest thing to an internet appliance. Most Mac users I know fall into that category. Heck my dad and older brother were both very capable and knowledgeable with PCs but Macs are so frictionless that they no longer feel like they need to know how it works. It just works.
Apple used to brag that its products just work. Now your expensive Mac comes with a bloated AI experiment you didn’t request, can’t fully remove, and are expected to thank Tim Cook for. When customers start writing tools to delete your flagship feature, that’s not innovation.
Wasn't it always Apple's position: "We know better what users need and if we don't have some feature it just means that users don't need it"?
What's really crazy is that apple had this obnoxious attitude that "they know what users really want", the users would disagree, they'd complain loudly, then they'd use the software and say "damn... Apple was right, this is better."
But... That was all before 2010. I can't think of a single software innovation the company has had since then. Apple used to deliver overpriced, outdated hardware and they only managed to sell it by packaging it with the slickest OS on the market. These days the situation is reversed, Apple is developing their own silicon, they have some of the fastest consumer chips around, and they need it, because their software is nothing to write home about and their prices are still high.
The lack of AI was actually a huge selling point for me with the Neo (even though the price was already a huge sell). It's a shame that they're now falling for the same trick as the rest of the industry.
I think you mean Tim Apple
It’s John Apple now!
(Tim Cook resigned. John Ternus is the current CEO of Apple)
What if it's a Dread Pirate Roberts situation, and every subsequent Apple CEO automatically becomes "Tim Apple"?
Then they should definitely all be Steve Apple.
No, for two reasons. First, there are already two Steve Apples, from the same time, no less. Second, because we don't really want one of those Steves back. Great marketer, shit person.
I wish I could do the same on iOS...
Yes, there are dozens of them. Dozens!