• thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    75·
    6 months ago

    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.

    • Unchanged3656@infosec.pub
      45·
      6 months ago

      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.

        • Unchanged3656@infosec.pub
          19·
          6 months ago

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

          • darvocet@infosec.pub
            24·
            6 months ago

            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@lemmy.zip
              7·
              6 months ago

              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.

            • Unchanged3656@infosec.pub
              3·
              6 months ago

              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.

      • jarfil@beehaw.org
        6·
        6 months ago

        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@beehaw.org
        1·
        6 months ago

        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@beehaw.org
      6·
      6 months ago

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

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    58·
    6 months ago

    Dedicated AI button: ✋😒

    Dedicated change-LED-colour button: 👈😯

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        13·
        6 months ago

        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@lemmy.sdf.org
          10·
          6 months ago

          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@lemm.ee
          2·
          6 months ago

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

          • drathvedro@lemm.ee
            2·
            6 months ago

            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@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    48·
    6 months ago

    Logitech hardware: pretty good!

    Logitech software: worst shit I’ve ever seen.

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

    • sverit
      4·
      6 months ago

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

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      6 months ago

      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.

    • dan@upvote.au
      3·
      6 months ago

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

  • reddwarf@feddit.nl
    37·
    6 months ago

    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…

    • DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      6 months ago

      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@beehaw.org
        6·
        6 months ago

        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@discuss.tchncs.de
        5·
        6 months ago

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

    • evatronic@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

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

  • Auzy@beehaw.org
    26·
    6 months ago

    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@lemmy.zip
      16·
      6 months ago

      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@lemmy.zip
        7·
        6 months ago

        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@lemmy.ca
    25·
    6 months ago

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

    • Midnitte@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      6 months ago

      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…

  • Kairos@lemmy.today
    16·
    6 months ago

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

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    11·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    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@beehaw.org
    5·
    6 months ago

    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.