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Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

575 points · 397 comments · privacyisntdead

  1. _pdp_ · · focus · HN ↗
    I don't understand why you would want to remove well-balanced and relatively small local-inference models that ship with every mac.

    Sure, not frontier levels but fine for basic tasks and they are off-the-cloud.

    1. _nothing · · focus · HN ↗
      I don't use and don't want to use any feature that is listed there. I don't use Siri on my Macbook, I don't need writing tools run on every single thing I write, I hate text predictions, I don't want summaries on the content I want to read, I don't need models analyzing my photos in the background.

      In fact I don't want models doing anything in the background that I didn't explicitly ask them to do.

      1. dominotw · · focus · HN ↗
        i am looking forward to building safari extensions by typing words
        1. dwayne_dibley · · focus · HN ↗
          You see I find this interesting, as I don't run any extensions these days, so have no idea what I'd. ask for. What am I missing?
          1. hlynurd · · focus · HN ↗
            I've recently had a hard time reading black text on a white background due to eye floaters so global dark mode is amazing for me.
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