Canonical is ‘ramping up’ AI in Ubuntu this year

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu-ai-features

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f1error@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 129d (1 reply)

Fer fucks sake Canonical, read the room.

Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club · 0 pts · 127d

Sadly, Lemmy nerds do not constitute the whole room. Your perception is influenced by everyone here vomiting up a constant stream of anti-slop comments.

Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 130d

Looks like my Ubuntu machine won't be running Ubuntu for much longer.

e0qdk@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 129d

Better out-of-the-box text-to-speech voices would be very welcome. The defaults are pretty painfully robotic... (Try spd-say "Hello world" if you don't know what I mean.)

Trivial to use on-device dictation software could also be useful.

The capabilities of models like qwen3.6 to do things like on-device image analysis are pretty incredible if you have hardware capable of running it -- I've run it on a Framework Desktop -- but I have no desire to expose my systems directly to AI agents. That's just asking for trouble... If an AI agent can fuck up, it will fuck up eventually, and I'd rather it not have the ability to delete my files when it does.

LordCrom@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 129d

By Odin's beard.... Ill have to switch to a new distro. Avoiding AI shit is one of the main reasons to use linux