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"A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS. "

"We know a little more about Google’s long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS into a single OS thanks to a job listing for a product manager to work on 'Aluminium OS.' The job ad describes it as 'a new operating system built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core.'"

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[–] llama@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

Who wants to click on an icon to open a program when you could just type in the program you want and have it guess what to open amirite?

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 12 points 8 hours ago
[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 13 points 12 hours ago

Sounds absolutely fucking awful.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Another body for the Google graveyard.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.

I would've considered it if google were still anti-evil, after all, Microsoft has fucked up hard enough to push users away from free operating systems. but nope, Linux it will be. somehow to be simpler than dealing with ms or google bullshit

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.

"AI at its core" is a BS marketing phrase. Obviously there is no AI in the actual operating system core.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm aware of that, and it's still a huge detractor for me. clearly they're focusing on non-value-added fluff

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 126 points 1 day ago

Can't wait for Google to drop this after a year leaving anyone who was using it fucked.

everybody definitely wants an even more locked down and ai bloated os than windows

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 22 points 1 day ago

No thanks, I'm good

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago
[–] muzzle@lemmy.zip 58 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A few decades ago I could have excited. A few years ago I would have been interested. Nowadays I'm just "more closed bullshit from google, meh"

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Normally I would be excited. But now they build things with AI integrated.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

You'd be excited for a Linux distro that's less open and owned by Google? Forget about the AI, why would I want Android on my PC where better alternatives exist?

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 29 points 1 day ago

so, AI powered spyware...

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago

I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 42 points 1 day ago

I'd rather die

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They think I am going to touch that after what they did to android, hell no.

[–] moretruth@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Windows will probably add AI too, so the only option without it may be Linux.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] RiQuY@lemmy.zip 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Surprised Google search and YouTube is not on the list yet ...

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Those are where the money comes from, re adsense. Remember, Google is a B2B company, they sell public attention to advertisers.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well if they know that, why spend time and money on all the other consumer products only to drop them a few years later?

It is my understanding that this is a byproduct of Google's company culture. Google hires software engineers, they're incentivized to invent something of their own. They do so. They get promoted. There isn't room in their company structure for anything to be maintained, maintaining someone else's project isn't a path to promotion. So Play Wallet is now Android Pay is now Google Pay is being sunset.

Oh, and Google is an American corporation, so anything that doesn't promise infinite exponential growth in revenue or unprecedented opportunities for cruelty is shot in the head as worthless.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 18 points 1 day ago

I wouldn't touch that with a stolen hand mounted on the end of a ten-foot barge pole.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago

Gotta stick AI in there for the stock price huh?

I wouldn’t mind if you could plug application intents into an MCP converter and then let models work with that.

I don’t really trust the idea of ai at the core.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wasn't this ~~Chrome~~ Fuschia?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

No, Fuchsia is a completely new OS, not using the Linux kernel at all.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

That wasn't built around agentic AI integration.

This will be.

[–] Redtrax@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Hard pass. 

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wasn't this posted like a week ago without the paywall?

It'll be cancelled before it even launches

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Nah. I’m good.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wasn't there already something like "Android for x86"?

[–] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

you can still compile it for x86, and run it on x86, waydroid uses android for x86, it runs natively under a container with its own android userspace sharing the "host's" kernel

[–] UnityDevice@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

There used to be x86 Android phones. But they kept that port going even after the phones went away because it was good for development on x86 machines. You could just run a VM instead of having to emulate an arm ISA.

[–] morto@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

There's also BlissOS if you want to run android on a desktop with a more desktop-like gui.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 1 day ago

QEMU is an emulator, what they're talking about is an android port to x86.