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Samsung is working on a new AI experience for its devices that will help you use your phone without ever accessing the Settings menu.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

What a waste of time and money !

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Man my s24 can't do shit I want easily that my s9 could years ago

How the fuck is "Ai" supposed to improve anything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I guess giving you less control over your device is an improvement for them, otherwise their service wouldn't be obliged to destroy self serviced phones

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Like what? Seriously curious

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Turning off notifications in the top menu for certain apps. They come up saying x is connected and I can't clear that any more.

Turn off Google and bixby rubbish and have it stay off and not come back after every update.

Removing a lot of the bloat apps. Can only disable them now not remove.

They are what come to mind off the top of my head.

Don't get me wrong there are many things better, but I use my phone for basic shit and liked it the way it was earlier *

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Is that first one Samsung or Android?

Like ok Google and Bixby? The only time I remember it coming up on s21 was when I touch earbuds with wet hands.

Yeah that sucks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I'm still rocking my S8 active, and I'll keep doing it until the battery dies or catches fire. Nothing they've added to phones in the last 7 years is worth it, imo

Only problem is that the storage is almost full from apps leaking data into locations not accessible from userland, so I'll have to root it at some point. But I'm confident it got another 2-3 years in it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the reminder to debloat my S23U after the last update with ADB AppControl.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Also check out the Universal Android Debloater, it's FOSS unlike unlike the program you mentioned

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Samsung can eat my dirty asshole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Things that'll never happen for $400, Alex.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

i miss my note but I'll never own another Samsung phone again.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The title is misleading. In nowhere the article say the Settings app will be removed, but an AI that will tweak system settimg based on usage patterns.

I guess it like: I have my brightness set at zero at 22:00, but sometimes I'm still using my phone and it dim suddenly which is a bit frustrating. This AI will learn that not to turn down the brightness when I'm using it, and wait until some other events happened then trigger the dimming. (Auto brightness doesn't goes all the way down that Tasker can do.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

They have(had?) a setting that prevents screen dimming when you are looking at the screen.

There is no value in AI being used as you describe, typical user habit learning that has been a thing for years can do that. Using AI because you can use AI is not valuable to users.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

While the title is misleading, its worse than what you say. They want this to apply to all settings, so it'd be a pain to have to toggle settings back to what you want every time it changes them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

I don't want that though. I'd rather have schedules and toggles than an AI.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They don't want you to disable things they can make money off of you with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When you think about it, you can’t really disable anything.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

That's why I'm running GrapheneOS, where I can actually disable things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

uh that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

Already sick of all this AI bollocks...

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Guys... these phones aren't for people like us anymore. The days of computers being just for techies who like to tinker are over because the market for "normal" people is so much larger, and the causal user just wants to text some people and watch some videos. They neither want nor need the things that we consider fundamental, so don't get frustrated that the shiny stuff now isn't aimed at us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed but I still agree with op :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's a fair point, and I used to read a lot of articles that made me say "fuck off", but eventually I realised it was happening regardless of my grumbles so I may as well not let them stress me out!