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I was a heavy voice user of the old Google Assistant, as well as Google Home/Nest speakers, and have really grown to hate its Gemini based replacement on my phone. So often it screws up with basic commands that were intuitive and reliable on the old Assistant. It's also slower and feels like a waste of resources to query an LLM for simple device and smart home commands

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I occasionally used the Google-owned (but abandoned) Snapseed for photo editing on Android, particularly of RAW images. Recently I discovered Snapseed has stopped being able to export Jpegs from RAW files, which was the last straw for me. This open source app can, and can do a lot of other useful things too! Might not be 100% feature parity with Snapseed, but good enough for many I think

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[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Gemini soon to be rebranded Allo Assistant All Access Chat

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago

It's an example of why monopolies are harmful. They create distorted economies that don't serve consumers. Like ecosystems overcome by a monoculture, monopolies are inherently less resilient, less functional and prone to sudden disruption.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

My previous place heated up very slowly, so I started saving the cold water in a bucket to water my plants because it felt like a waste

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

Running natively rather than on the xamarin/maui framework would hopefully mean it's more responsive. It is a bit sluggish to load right now

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

Edge is branding itself "The AI Browser". Chrome has plans to embed LLMs for text input. Opera, the browser which was commandeered from the original Vivaldi team and turned into a crypto/VPN gimmick browser, is of course among the hardest leaning into the LLM trend.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Seems quiet to me, in a metaphorical sense, if they delete something from PR page which they previously considered important enough to have as a campaign position, but without articulating a new position. They are obscuring their position.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

The anti-vaccine movement has been fighting their pro-disease fight for decades now

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

These people have no idea what their music is about, it seems. I normally have trouble understanding lyrics and have to look them up, but Green Day's are pretty straightforward

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago

They don't want children to be educated about sexual activity because that usually is correlated with effective family planning, which means fewer children, which means women having more time for personal empowerment rather than simply being vessels for childbirth, which again means fewer children. Fewer children means fewer minds to convert to the religion that motivates the whole exercise. Many 'successful' religions aggressively propagate themselves, even if it's at the expense of the well-being of the believers themselves.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 133 points 2 years ago

She's literally their marketing officer

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 70 points 2 years ago

I care about anticompetitive behavior from tech companies

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 98 points 2 years ago

Maybe the Pixel team didn't talk to the Maps team. Maybe they did and the maps team said they didn't care. Maybe everyone involved in all of these features has since left the company. With Google, who knows?

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