Like UI - it is basically what LLM is - translator from human to computer.
I've seen and had way more than enough of this "computers trying to anticipate/foresee/think for me helping me to don't make mistakes/know better than me, what I better going to do/suggest me some" - BS.
Doesn't matter if it was "Clippy" (one of the worst). Some telephone bots "helping" customers to get the quickest, best service, with or without speech recognition. "Support" chatbots. Auto word completion. Auto correction. Auto BS creating "my favorite lists for me". Reminders of I better remove from the desktop. Or just FAQtnaea (frequently asked questions that nobody actually ever asked.)
Now we get this crap also in cars:
All is flashing, blinking, beeping, chiming, ringing, honking, burping, farting...for every BS you do, or not do. This drives me nuts! I need silence in the car, need to concentrate on traffic and the road to drive relaxed, to avoid accidents, and not getting stressed by alarm drills every few seconds for any meaningless BS.
Recently my wife and I were driving in a rented car on a road I've driven a thousand times, and we almost had three accidents on those 100km - because of "accident avoiding systems"!
Imagine a road through mountains full of bends. Oncoming cars cut the corners, coming into my track. I want to steer more right to avoid a frontal collision, but this shit of a lane keeping assistant counteracts, simply increased the force, not let me steer a bit more right. So I needed brute force to turn the wheel,
to avoid an accident, then almost collided with the right crash barrier. Three times on 100km! Where is the point in building in systems I have to pay extra for, that I neither can refuse nor switch off, which
increase the chance of an accident?
While on this tour my wife and I were also trying to talk to each other. Some people do this, you know. Not just staring numbly zombie-like on their tamagotchis all the time, but having a
conversation - more than exchanging two monosyllabically words about basic bodie's needs. Every now and then this shit of a on-board computer butted in, interrupting adults talk, with some unasked, useless BS, like if we want to register now, or if we know there comes a McDonald's Restaurant and if we want to go there for a pause. "NO!! STF-UP you [P'§%$O($&'F''*§S'§%$/]!!"
Since my neighbor has new car he cannot park backwards into his garage parking spot anymore like he did for twenty years. Because this shit not only warns him with lots of flashy and noisy alarms of the post he needs to pass by by 40cm. No, this fancy new car actually
stops everytime, and then he has to wait for ten seconds before his car finally let him park.
That's not a feature. That's terror.
But back to computers:
I have in fourty years deleted a zillion files from storage drives. In those fourty years I had not a dozen situations, when afterwards I realized I deleted a file mistakenly. I never took them out of any "paper basket", because I cannot, because I always empty those directly when I "delete" a file. So on my computers those were always completely wiped clean, because when I want to delete a file, I want to delete that file, and not move it to another directory. If I want to do this I'd say "move", and not "delete".
For to protect me for I may mistakenely delete a single file I have to double-approve
millions of file deletions?
I am the master over my slave the machine.
When I say "delete this file/directory/filesystem" I want it to be
deleted, and not having a discussion about it, particulary not with a machine.
Even if I say
rm -Rf /usr/* that has to be done -
unquestioned.
Since I don't use any DE anymore, but a simply WM, I am finally released of this useless shit.
This was one the reasons to me to dump DEs and use simple WMs, because I not only do not want a paper basket, I want that there is none at all, and I couldn't remove it from the DEs I used.
I do and have BUs to recover from. That's what BUs for. And when 90% of all computer users don't do BUs, or don't even know what they are, than that's their problem - not mine. Why I also have to be put in a rubber room because 90% feel more secure in one, or don't know otherwise?
I don't know, but it seems to me it must be that >90% of all people must be that incredible stupid imbeciles needed to be guarded and protected from themselves continuously 24/7, or they binge-drink toilet cleaner if there is nobody to tell them not to.
But what I know is that I don't drink toilet cleaner. And I don't need nobody to tell me that again every five minutes. I was told so once when I was four. I cannot speak for everybody, but to me that was enough to make me not drink toilet cleaner for the rest of my life. And I also don't need nobody's fancy idea telling everybody every five minutes not to drink that stuff, otherwise one of 8 billion may actually drink it.
You see, I am an adult, not yet suffering from dementia, so fully capable of not only making own decisions, but to take full responsibility for my own actions - meither any software company, nor any car manufacturer take it for anybody anyway.
I am no child who needs permanently somebody by my side, and guard me of all stupid things imagenable I
might do. Especially not a machine, which is less than any human, so not only cannot read my minds, but even not think.
That's why I'm using FreeBSD, and not Windows anymore.
If you like to make sashimi you don't want a speaker telling you continuously to watch out to not hurt yourself, and especially not somebody take away that knife of yours, because it's sharp, and give you some blunt plastic toy knife instead.
You don't have to make sashimi for yourself. There are pros do it for you.
Cut your fingers is part of using sharp knifes. That's why I have plasters ready to hand.
If you worry to cut yourself, that's OK. Then don't use a sharp knife.
But there are others can, want, and are not afraid of cutting themselves.
Just let them keep their knifes as sharp as they are, please.
This story is in deed very funny. And it shows how even errors can be unnoticed.
