I have a Quest headset, and I have no idea. But of course I don’t want anything to do wih their “metaverse”, so I would’t be able to see where most of their work went.

What I can tell you is the parts I did use, like the system UI and app store, are complete shit and never improved one bit through the years.

The app store is especially terrible for a company with those resources. It’s using the worst machine translation I ever saw (forget LLMs, this is a lot worse than 2010 google translate). It has terrible search and discoverability options for a store that has comparatively so little content.

Whenever I find something interesting in it, it’s also regularly failing transactions with a major bank in my country. I’m almost listing that as a pro since it discouraged me to get stuff from a headset-locked store that will be completely abandoned very soon.

I’m really curious how “AI” helped him golf, other than providing basic advice he could have found just as easily anywhere else.

He’s lucky his AI is not Mr Meeseeks from Rick & Morty.

Your graphics processor identified itself as or similar.

Ah yes, Or similar, great GPU, love it.

I have stopped using chrome on mobile too.

Problem is, on a stock android you can’t remove chrome, only hide it. So my point is, if they decide to force the model download on a chrome update, even if you never use it, it’ll still ruin a good chunk of your storage space.

At least gemini isn’t a forced install… on my device it isn’t, in any case. I sure hope it stays that way.

Next time I change my phone, I’ll look into it (and probably choose it for that purpose). I don’t want to risk ditching official support on this one just yet.

Google aside, I chose a phone that comes relatively crap-free.

I haven’t had desktop chrome for quite some time, and I certainly never will again after that.

But I certainly hope they are not planning to push that shit on android. Leave my fucking storage alone, google

It’s not a good thing if you don’t want a freaking LLM to begin with. Hidden 4GB download for a feature I can’t give a single fuck about is ridiculous.

The kind of social media they know about, anyway.

I am not ashamed of anything I say here, but I am never doing it with my full identity accessible to whomever. Basic online hygiene.

They’re literally half the ads Youtube sends me. Crazy long ones too.

They’re also powerful enough that they can get a lot of ad spots on national TV channels too (France), and only have to print a tiny unreadable warning about risks, while having a giant tagline saying “The important part is winning”.

All this time I assumed destroying the world was just an easily dismissed, unfortunate consequence, turns out it’s their main objective after all.

Don’t give them ideas, they’ll start drilling for new volcanoes.

Basically just a voice recorder with no connection, and you have to get your files through usb and submit them yourself to the pasta sauce site so they can send them to the library of congress for “preservation” or something.

Such a weird concept I can barely imagine someone doing that seriously. As a joke, maybe with your worst Mario impression cut by exaggerated slurping sounds, maybe.

I never activated cloud storage for Google Photos. Whenever I open it for some reason, it complains about it. I need something non-shittified to go through my gallery, just haven’t looked for it very much yet.

It’s a pokémon joke. In the first games there is a kid who has a very random line about his love for shorts, and since then they’ve put someone like him with a similar quote in a lot of games.

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That would certainly explain it.

I guess the story they’re trying to push is “People intentionally use bad AI just to give officially supported, good AI a bad name!”. And that’s quite the ridiculous claim.

I remember a long time ago complaining about a shitty pattern like this (specifically, bombing your history by artificially making a shitload of redirects and thus making the back button useless. Probably the old school way to do this shit). Back then I was told by web devs “this is how the web works, you can’t have a browser detect and block this!”.

Fuck that.

sabotaging their company’s AI by entering proprietary info into public AI chatbots, using unapproved AI tools,

This is counter-productive and can get you in big trouble IMO. I don’t even get what these are protesting.

or intentionally using low-quality AI output in their work without fixing it.

This is better and I think I would totally do this if management forced me to use AI. If they want to pretend using this thing is a better use of my time, I’ll give them what they want.

Fortunately I am working for an administration that has had rather tame expectations for gen AI use till now. They’re basically just like “experiment if you want, be careful and use what works for you”. So I just keep doing what I always did.

Roughly same age group (I think? early Y), and yeah, exactly that.

Searching has become a battle against the terrible AI answers that misinterpret and oversimplify one random result while making it a chore to find actual good sources.

And of course gen AI is also to blame for these good sources being drowned in an ocean of content farms, those shitstain tentacular bastards stealing and garbling information beyond recognition. Walls and walls of text saying absolutely nothing, or complete lies, on every subject known to humanity, feeding on themselves and replacing everything else.