5mo ago

Your Android Phones Aren’t ‘Google’ Anymore, They’re All ‘Gemini’

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5mo ago

Your Android Phones Aren’t ‘Google’ Anymore, They’re All ‘Gemini’

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Mine ain't.
- GrapheneOS is go brrrr
  
  We have to enjoy it while we still can
  Let's face it, unfortunately the GrapheneOS developer team depending exclusively on Google hardware is a terrible thing in the long run, I bet that overnight Google will close the siege with the Pixels or possibly even abandon them so the whole community will have no alternative
  Google may also abandon Android, and there is no guarantee that another major company would keep it. I have real concerns about the Android model
  PS: I know the hardware requirements that GrapheneOS has to support a device
- Yes, please this. Current phones like the PinePhone just need a bit of polish and then I'm ready to go.
  
  The thing is, how do we bring that about?
  I'm not sure Pine64 has a goal of bringing a product to retail readiness; the PinePhone was getting there, then they released the PinePhone Pro which broke a lot of the work done...
- Its never coming to mass market in a user friendly package
  
  Personally it doesn't need to be user friendly for me to use it, just have decent specs. Like at least a flagship phone from 2019 kind of specs. All the Linux phones are unbearably slow and have crap cameras and battery life.
Cool, I still won't "hey" anything since all these voice things are janky and privacy nightmares anyways.
- I'll consider using it when I can rename it as "asshole"
  
  "Don't call that dog "lifesaver;" call him "shithead.""
  https://clip.cafe/the-jerk-1979/dont-call-dog-lifesaver/
  
  'Hey Asshole!'
  beep
  
  Old Man's War reference?
Come on AI bubble burst already
I don't think I've found a single use for Gemini it either refuses any questions I ask or just can't do the task. I think everytime I've tried something I've resorted to using a different llm. Google has really lost its tech edge imo.
- I only use Google Assistant to set timers and alarms. I tried it on Gemini and it said it couldn't do that.
- I asked it a question about PETG settings for a 3d printer and it told me to RTFM, but way wordier
- I recently used Gemini just for fun, to help me find an old Android game that's not on Google Play anymore. It was literally useless even though I described the game with a lot of details.
  DuckDuckGo'd some details and 10 seconds later I was playing the game.
  
  Oh man! What was the game?
- The best features of my phone are AI... in that they are already installed and now called something new. Google on tap is now some AI bullshit.
Gemini auf die Eier
- My life for Eier.
  
  Wie viel kosten die Eier?
- Brilliant!
Not to be confused with the gemini protocol.
https://geminiprotocol.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q3GCzG2gvE
If I had know the level of shit from google when I retired my previous 8 year old phone, I would have picked degoogled version of Fairphone.
- That is what I have! And loving it. Admittedly the Fairphone 3 was quite slow and annoying when I got it, but with LineageOS and some changed settings I've actually never had a better phone, or felt better about my phone.
I've never gotten 'Hey Google" to work properly when the phone is locked. And my phone is always locked except when I'm already using it, in which case it's just easier and less awkward to hold down the activation button.
- It's funny because I remember early on devices like the OG Moto X had mid-tier specs but they made sure the OK Google worked with screen off. That was like 10 years ago now wtf

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