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Re:Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Suppl... by ulfw on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:57AM (#47974261)
There is no GUI in anything you're saying. How is this 'the new GUI'?
Re:Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Suppl... by dumbmrblah on Friday May 01, 2026 @10:14AM (#47975048)
I have a similar set up. I communicate/chat with the Hermes agent via Matrix chat client.

So rather than having to go to a bunch of different websites or apps to get things done, I've linked them all to Hermes (via skills) and chat with the Hermes agent on my phone.

I want a movie? I just say download XYZ. Shows up in Plex 5 min later.

I want to research something with multiple different perspectives? Rather than going to OpenWebUI and using that, I just asked a Hermes agent to examine an issue from multiple different viewpoints and get back to me with a conclusion.

Re:Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Suppl... by bitwize on Friday May 01, 2026 @11:03AM (#47975622)
It's the next paradigm in how people interact with computers.
Re:Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Suppl... by apexalpha on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:54AM (#47983992)
100%. It's so natural, even to complete noobs that's it's hard to go back.
Re:Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Suppl... by bitwize on Saturday May 02, 2026 @05:42PM (#47990858)
Except it's not. Even though us commandlinebros made fun of GUIs back when they came out, GUIs still have the property of being precise and unambiguous (to the machine, to the human requires design finesse and clear guidelines). There's no "Oopsie-boopsie! I made a little fucky-wucky and accidentally your entire production database, even though you told me not to do that!" with a CLI or GUI. With CLI and GUI, screwups of that sort are entirely PEBKACs. The fucky-wucky factor needs to be controlled in LLMs so that it's possible to communicate your exact intent to the machine and get the expected result every time. Of course if that's ever achieved we will have reinvented command processors "with extra steps".
Re:Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Suppl... by apexalpha on Friday May 01, 2026 @02:39PM (#47978392)
Is a webapp with a frontend not a GUI? Thats what I meant.