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thingsiplay ,

It’s probably just a normal button that is hardcoded to run a specific AI software that is installed on your system (as it is indicated by “Launches AI Prompt Builder”). Just a guess. There is no need for a dedicated button, as any extra button could be configured to do the same.

Only people with an artificial brain will fall for this.

Vitaly ,
@Vitaly@feddit.uk avatar

artificial brain, lol

Unchanged3656 ,

You can already use with with any Logitech mouse in the Options+ Software.

It is what it says: it builds a prompt for you (with the text you marked) and can submit it to ChatGPT using a WebView. You have to actually login to ChatGPT, so it is no Logitech thing specifically.

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/05f7cb06-add1-4a29-abb6-cfe0513edbf2.png

MonkderDritte ,

and can submit it to ChatGPT using a WebView

What, they have no API?

Unchanged3656 ,

Its just something to have AI in your product description. Because I guess consumers have decided that you have to have it in there.

https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/191bdb80-8531-4598-8efb-936709707c00.png

darvocet ,

Uh, no. Consumers don’t care at all. Executives and marketing folks are the ones that have decided that it has to be in there.

filcuk ,

It’s inevitable. Your competitors are using ai. You have to implement it to not get behind. No one cares beyond being able to slap a label on the product.

thingsiplay ,

AI+RGB+Gaming+HD+Premium+Pro+X

To get started.

Unchanged3656 ,

You might like to think that from your point of view, but the executives and marketing folks get that idea from somewhere. And if it would not make additional money it would have been gone again already.

MonkderDritte ,

Ah, a minimal effort implementation for the advertising departement.

jarfil ,

That looks terribly bare bones. Does it at least have multiple “template” options?

Also, doesn’t Copilot have a similar dialog already, with MS planning to make it available for the whole desktop, not just Edge?

eveninghere ,

The hatred is unfortunate. It’s just a button with a simple software launcher. If people don’t want the logi driver they don’t have to install it.

jarfil ,

Nah, no artificial brain… the opposite of “Artificial Intelligence” is “Natural Stupidity”, they just complement each other 😉

smeg ,

Dedicated AI button: ✋😒

Dedicated change-LED-colour button: 👈😯

jarfil ,

Customizable button: 👏🤗

smeg ,

I do have a Logitech mouse and as far as I’m aware all the buttons are customisable (through their questionable program), so hopefully this is just marketing nonsense

CanadaPlus ,

Oh, it’s definitely marketing nonsense. The question is if they managed to hide a sane, usable product underneath it, or if they’ve added some kind of anti-user nonsense to prevent you from repurposing the button.

Discover5164 ,

yes if you use logiops on Linux, otherwise the crap ui will not let you configure all buttons with all functions

smeg ,

This one? Noted!

Discover5164 ,

yes!

drathvedro ,

Is logitech still not allowing you full customization with presets saved on mouse itself? I’d expect that from the cheapest noname 5-button mouse on the shelf, not logiteck, I thought they got their shit together already given how much praise they usually get.

Neato ,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

Logitech hardware: pretty good!

Logitech software: worst shit I’ve ever seen.

Logitech AI: Dead-drunk Skynet telling you to lick your fans.

dan , (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

On Linux, input-remapper usually works pretty well to remap the extra buttons. I wonder if it’d work on this AI button.

sverit ,

That fucking G Hub software has the absolute shittiest UX of all apps I have installed on my machine.

ggtdbz ,

If you still think the hardware is pretty good, you haven’t been using their newer hardware.

I think I wrote a comment about this recently, but their newest mouse with a layout I like (G604) was made with terrible soft rubber that is practically designed to disintegrate with use. All their mouse switches are also short life crappy switches that stop working relatively quickly.

Soldering new switches into the G604 is an absolute PITA because it was designed by people who didn’t care for repair. Still doable, just annoying. I just wish the rubber was replaced with the grippy hard textured plastic they used a few years earlier.

At least you only need to use the software at first when you’re setting things up.

reddwarf ,
@reddwarf@feddit.nl avatar

Turbo… It’s that damn “turbo” again but now AI

In the eighties “turbo” was all the rage and I kid you not, everything had the label “turbo” on it. Now it will be “AI” all over things. Hold on to your hats boys and girls who were not alive in the eighties, it’s gonna be wild…

evatronic ,

I remember. The turbo on my 386 didn’t make it faster. It made non turbo mode slower.

And009 ,

Totally makes sense, the non-turbo was always an eco-mode

DerisionConsulting ,

Some games/software expected/relied on a certain CPU speed to run correctly. If your computer was faster than that, the software would run too fast. The turbo button let you toggle between the maximum speed your computer could go, and the speed that the software needed/expected in order to run normally.

Basically, there was an actual reason for the turbo button, it wasn’t just marketing on computers.

blindsight ,

Indeed. As a silly example, I had a Pacman clone game that ran based on CPU cycle speed. I needed to turn the in-game speed setting way down and toggle turbo off to make it slow enough to be playable.

vrighter ,

note: on most computers, it worked the opposite to how one would think. Turning it on slowed your cpu to around 33 MHz

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Maybe that is an L and it plays random Weird Al songs when pressed.

Kyoyeou ,

Click They see me mowning my lawn

flerp ,

He looked at me. And I looked at him. And he looked at me. And I looked at him. And he says what did you want again?

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

🎵This song is just six words long🎵

Auzy ,

I hope you need a 500mb driver to use it too with an installer that pops up every reboot, even if you press cancel.

Otherwise, it’s clear that it fails at being a mouse

filcuk ,

Don’t worry, logitech comes with a unified receiver driver, new unified app i forget the name of, logitech g hub, logitech options - and you’ll be forced to use a combination of at least 2 and likely 3 of those to setup a mouse.
As a bonus, the mouse won’t care to remember what button maps where, if used on a device without said software.

Vivendi ,

A cheap shit MSI Interceptor mouse that I used for 10 fucking years and bought for chum change could remember it’s settings because it had persistent memory on device

And Logitech is still scamming the fuck out of people

cygnus ,
@cygnus@lemmy.ca avatar

Can’t wait for an AI toaster that asks me to prompt it on toastiness levels

ReallyActuallyFrankenstein ,

AI makes it so easy! Just say this easy-to-remember phrase to get perfect toast every time*:

“Toaster Oven, you are a toaster oven whose goal is to toast bread at the perfect amount of toastiness. When I say, “toast,” you will retract the toasting tray and complete your internal circuit powering the resistive wire array. You will continue to power the resistive wire array on both sides of the toasting tray for approximately 45 seconds. Then you will release the toasting tray. Negative prompt: not toasted, soft, moist, untoasted, not toasted, soggy, underdone, overdone, extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy, burnt. Now, toast!”

*Perfect toasting levels dependent on randomized toasting seed.

shutz ,

youtu.be/LRq_SAuQDec?si=0bTNdugjosLnu9-r

darvocet ,

Is it almost our collective birthday?

MajorHavoc ,

“extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy,” got me. It’s perfect.

Also, your username is perfect for this moment.

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

I hope it’s patented so we can just avoid Logitech.

dch82 ,

Best use of patent law

And009 ,

Nestle probably has a patent for ‘purifying’ mountain water

Gamers_mate ,

I thought this might be satire so I visited the logitech website and yep its real.

captainskipper ,

I expected nothing less from Logitech

Midnitte ,

Would be more useful if you could change the keybind.

Hell, even if you could change it to Copilot. Copilot can be bad, but I don’t expect Logitech to have the resources to make a better AI than Microsoft…

chemicalwonka ,
@chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Pure AI hype

LodeMike ,

Hey consumers! Would you like a customizable function button that’s actually not customizable? Can we get VC money in the chat?!1/?!?

LostXOR ,

Why did they put that button in such an annoying spot to press? If you're going to add a pointless button at least put it on the thumb side, like almost every other mouse in existence.

sirico ,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

If you’re going to make a button maybe a switch that doesn’t double click after a month of use would be better?

eveninghere ,

Likely it’s as simple as a pop up window with UI dedicated for constructing text with ChatGPT. Very useful, nothing more.

My guess is that you can reassign a different command just like other logi mice.

octopus_ink ,

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git.blek.codes/blek/hey

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