I actually don't think anyone used it. The issue is Google didn't allow you to go back and add it within a certain time of your purchase. It also wouldn't let you purchase it at checkout with a new Pixel if you were already paying for one of the subscriptions it was composed of.
I think the other issue is most people aren't upgrading back to Pixel and most of their users are new and unsure if they will continue with Pixel. Personally, meh. Google kills something that isn't profitable and it's clear it wasn't being used as intended or gaining as much traction as they thought it would. On top of that it was just kind of a mess. If I buy a Pixel from Google why don't I have a week after my purchase to at least add Pixel pass.
I love my Pixel and I have had every Pixel except the 5. I will continue to buy them with or without this pass.
Because the product doesn't suck for everyone on the entire planet because you think it sucks.
"Christ you guys sound like you have Stockholm syndrome."
You guys sound like a fucking cult sometimes. Like Linux is this perfect OS or that doesn't break when a repository fails to update.
Wanna know what my first time with Linux was like, Everytime my mouse moved the screen refreshed. Every, frame.
Linux is not the answer for every person especially for my mom who barely knows how to send an email and the answer is to tell her how to boot from a live USB and expect her to understand partitioning a drive.
Look, I love Linux just as much as you guys but I also appreciate Windows especially doing the work I do. Linux is not the damn answer to everything.
And your analogy to abusing another human is honestly quite shit. Humans abusing another need to seek help.
It's not what they do it's the answers people give.
Compare them all you want but the day Linux truly becomes an OS you are crazy to think devs will keep all of of the stuff FOSS when their is money officially to be made. Just ask the RedHat users.
Oh my god, even you are missing the fucking point if you are distracted by this. Aaaaaa
Can we stop making our reactions about this kind of thing about the big "corporate" we are telling others to stop making it about?
I mean come on guys a fucking worm was eating a woman's brain and you are pissed someone said, "this is probably only something I will find once in my career." As if a researcher themselves can't be intrigued, excited, and any other human emotion about their fucking work?
Does anyone with a Fair phone have time to tell me how it compares to Pixel? I have loved all of my Google Pixel products to the point I have lived with them for 7 years since their launch.
Am I the only fucking rational person here that doesn't give a shit? Things change either pay for the new storage limits or don't. Can we move on now? Can we talk about something that isn't about a big business making a big business move that you disagree with because you hate said big business and only want to use Linux? We get it. Windows bad.
Let's move the hell on then.
EDIT: Lemmy users really do need to find something else to do with their fucking lives besides complain about subscriptions.
Finally, a person with an actual voice. I feel like the, "Switch to Linux," don't realize they sound like, "Just get an iPhone people." To me it all sounds like, "well if you don't like being in this country then just leave."
Linux is not the answer for all people the same as switching to an iPhone should never just be the answer.
I would like to say piracy against the big guy also hurts the little guy making the content you like.
I am all for pirating that scientific journal and that college book but there is a reason writers, artists, and the people making a shit amount of money for the work they put into the things we love.
I won't support something that hurts a regular person giving me the things I like to watch, but I get your sentiment.
I think AMD is a great competitor and we need more competition to lay it to NVIDIA and AMD as well, BUT HOLY FUCK. I can't stand AMD's software/control panel vs NVIDIA's.
Bottom, IMO, but also if you are a top person... you are just wrong.
Google Chrome for Android mobile used to have a bottom option and they removed it. I prefer the bottoms because that is where we naturally type on phones and it is where your thumb naturally lays. Phones are getting bigger so you have less to reach around for with it on the bottom.
For me the issue isn't the tool. It's people. The tool is used just as it is. A tool.
I always like to compare these things to other physical tools. If you take a philips screw driver to a flathead screw you don't blame the tool you blame yourself for bringing the improper tool because as a human you can make mistakes. As a human you should have figured out prior, "do I need a flathead or philips?" There are tools capable of doing the job and doing it properly.
Same if you are an operator on a piece of machinery. If you take a forklift to destroy a house you probably aren't going to get very far.
All of these tools were designed to make life easier and provide a positive to life when doing something but it is how you use the tool that matters.
The same with a gun. I am not a gun ownership kind of guy because of all the shit human beings that just can't use one properly or claim to use it properly. Guns get more complicated and so do their use cases but the truth is a gun was designed to kill or defend from being killed (this is not a topic about gun rights just using it as an example.) However, in the hands of the wrong person a gun can kill unintentionally. That isn't the guns fault after all its design was to kill.
ChatGPT wasn't designed to kill, inherently. It wasn't designed to do anything other than take databases of information and provide what it thinks is correct. If you as a person don't know how to use it or what to do with it probably and you aren't seeking actual medical attention or advice from a professional then I think that is the person's fault.
ChatGPT can't make a disclaimer for every little thing. A car on the other hand having a recall issue can. If you want to compare to a faulty part in a car then sure. Modify ChatGPT to just not provide medical advice.
See tools can be changed midway through. The tool isn't the problem how the person uses the tool is the issue. Access to that tool and what that tool has access to can be an issue but the great thing about tools is laws can change and tools can change.
It isn't the A.I.s fault if your legislature doesn't care to enforce that change or law. The same legislature that half of Lemmy is opposed to literally all the time. Tools are only good in ways they can be used as well.
So let's say for arguments sake the tool is dangerous and in your defense it absolutely can be used dangerously. Do you call upon the government to shut it down just like you would call upon the government to regulate or change gun laws?
Do you also ignore the positive impacts ChatGPT can have because it is doing something else terribly? Imagine a system that medical professionals do create and they modify a version that does provide good medical advice, accurate, and professional? What then? Is ChatGPT still bad? It's not out of the realm of possibility. A.I isn't the enemy because someone's leadership decided to fire you. Leadership is the enemy. Tools are only as bad as the people using them.
Or for the sake of a recalled care that can kill they are as bad as the user manufacturing them. I don't deny you can get a bad car, a bad screwdriver. My point is if you let the bad outweigh the good then you are missing the point. The bad should be handled by people who understand it better and can design laws and tools to enforce better usage to make something less bad. So again don't blame the tool blame the people that aren't protecting you with said tool.
Nah, I like my Pixel.