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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. dawnerd · · focus · HN ↗
      I don’t know why pro AI people have such a hard time understanding consent.
      1. senordevnyc · · focus · HN ↗
        Did you consent to every other feature of macOS, the many thousands of them?

        This has nothing to do with consent. A product you use is going in a different direction than your personal preference. Nothing new here.

        1. saghm · · focus · HN ↗
          Intentionally eliminating a choice that they used to provide that many people would still like the ability to choose is not a new phenomenon, you're correct. That doesn't make it any less user hostile when it happens though, and I think plenty of people don't think "well plenty of other sucky things happen in similar ways" to be a good reason not to be upset when a new unnecessary sucky thing happens.
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