Technology

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.

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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

That's fine. Google devices have been disappearing from my life as well, so this will not be a long-term problem.

Fuck everything about this: Gemini sucks!

OMFG.

Gemini is neat, but it SSUUUUUUUUCCCKKS at being a voice assistant.

It will frequently produce a fucking essay in response to being asked to turn the lights on or off.

I just gave it a go again, 30% of the time it pretends to do what you ask without actually doing it. 20% of the time it flat-out refuses while never failing to mention that I really should enable gemini activity tracking. 40% of the time is claims this functionality does not exist, even though it was given the ability to "ask assistant" to do things only it can do (like identify music by listening to it). 10% of the time it will successfully hand off to assistant, which will then instantly do as asked.

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.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

Assistant was awesome. The voice isn't as punchable as Gemini's options.

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.

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.

That sucks. At least it was useful unlike gemini.

What even is ownership?

Local-first for life.

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.

The timing is crazy, that's around the same time that Google and Android is expected to start disappearing from thousands of phones.

To preserve our privacy? (insert Padmé and Anakin stare meme)

It's already dead pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

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.

It's a shame, now I'll never get to try it...

Rest well.

Never used it. Always first thing I disable

Gross.

It was a convenient way to set a kitchen timer. I never used it for anything else but this is still gonna hurt.