This literally happened to me today while driving
Me: Text wife Gemini: Texting wife, what would you like in the message? Me: Can you pop my lunch in the microwave? I am going to be home in 5 minutes. Gemini: While I can’t put food in the microwave for you, I can set a reminder.
What the fuck?
Today was the first day I noticed Gemini instead of assistant, and from the other complaints here, I am not looking forward this. Assistant worked just fine.
It’s really bad.
ITT: “how could Google ruin shit and foist worse shit on me!?!”
Bruh, it’s Google.
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.
Because it makes you feel sick, in so many words?
It’s a shame, now I’ll never get to try it…
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
Because it doesn’t know what time is or how to measure it or even how to count for that matter.
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
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.
You might have to remap the home button to Gemini maybe?
Tried that but gemini seems incapable of placing calls
It also can’t connect to Google home without being unlocked nor set your navigation to an address in your contacts, or as far as I can tell do anything useful at all.
Oh and I almost forgot it will also fucking block other apps from doing shit that they used to be able to do because it decided that something in your phrase is a key word.
Just… perfect Google. Bravo.
Never used it. Always first thing I disable
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.
If it makes you feel better, I’m sure someone in Google got the promotion they so desperately needed.
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.
“Look, everyone is using YouTube Music! We are successful and smart!” [because we shut down Google Play Music and forced users to install YouTube Music, and measured the stats before they all uninstalled it]
Fuck everything about this: Gemini sucks!
What even is ownership?
Local-first for life.
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.
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.
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.
