• switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    I use GA to spell shit for me because I have senior moments. It’s just easier to click a button and say spell naseaous for me.

    See? Fuck that word. Also fuck Google. For more reasons than just this.

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Can the Gemini assistant set reminders yet? Such a basic function of the old Google assistant and yet Gemini has failed every time I tried it in the past

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      It’s been abled to set alarms for me haven’t tried reminders. I also use it to create events from me on my calendar.

      It connects to my Google home now too, which it wasn’t able to do before

      Assistant tasks like this are probably the only semi reasonable LLM use case. If it was less resource intensive anyway

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    4 hours ago

    My grandmother used it for calling. She’d long press the home button and say ‘Call Aliya’ etc. It has stopped working last week, in both google assistant and gemini. If anyone knows an alternative, please let me know.

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    23 hours ago

    Well this fucking sucks. Gemini is complete garbage in Android Auto, I thought I was stuck with it until I discovered a couple weeks ago that I could choose to continue using the assistant.

    Now it’s being ripped from my hands again.

    This is total ass. Fuck Gemini. Fuck AI. Fuck Google.

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      19 hours ago

      If it makes you feel better, I’m sure someone in Google got the promotion they so desperately needed.

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        Oh for sure. They can proudly tell their shareholders that every one is using Gemini now, which I’m sure they’ll eat that up even though we’re all being forced into it with no recourse.

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    1 day ago

    Well that’s not good. I use it to set alarms fairly often, and up until recently it used to work for navigation. I think me refusing the AI crap made “navigate to 123 main st” quit working.

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    24 hours ago

    I degoogled (mostly) a while ago, but home assistant has a pretty configurable local voice assistant. If you have remote access to your server, I imagine you could cobble together a good keyword based personal assistant that sets alarms, turns lights on and off, and reads you an RSS newsfeed while you drink your morning coffee.

    We’re truly on the technological downslope now. First it was all about the user and making software accomplish a purpose, then it was all about the user as long as it was profitable, now it’s fuck the user - be profitable.

  • darkangelazuarl@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    De-googled my phones when they continued pushing this. Google TV is a little harder but turning off voice input and loading a 3rd party launcher fixes most issues for now.