Sounds like a ridiculous crackdown on privacy that will do abso-fucking-lutely nothing to actually stop spammers, grifters, or other criminals.

These fuckers really are the gift that keeps on giving…

Ahead of schedule you say? The shareholders will be thrilled!

Qwant and Kagi are also pretty solid search engines if people are looking for more alternatives.

Ah, I thought you meant as in tricking Gemini to use Assistant somehow. Yeah, that would be great. It’s insane they got rid of it at all but Google loves killing cool/useful shit.

I’m still salty about Photosphere.

You can’t tell Google Assistant shit anymore, they killed it to force people to use Gemini, which is objectively terrible as an assistant.

It has become reasonably OK at setting alarms somewhat recently, unless you don’t have Internet, then it is totally fucking useless. Assistant would reliably set alarms, no problem, along with a ton of other useful things like calendar events, reminders, texts, etc.

It would also set alarms without needing an Internet connection. Gemini is vastly inferior to Assistant when it comes to actually doing anything I want it to do.

This all evokes imagery of a dumpster fire to me…

Gemini is fucking garbage, it’s useless as an assistant and Google destroyed Assistant which could do genuinely helpful things like navigate hands free, set timers reliably and without Internet connections, set calendar reminders, etc.

Try to use voice commands to navigate now?

Gemini tells you to use the Maps app.

Fuck you Gemini, that’s not helpful at all.

Get your shit together Google.

even if its worse than the solutions that we already had.

Like Gemini replacing Assistant. Holy shit, what a dumpster fire.

I’ll go ahead and file that one under “Yeah, no shit lol”

shrugs in PRUSA

“We want you to pay your fair share of taxes to maintain the system you enjoy the benefits and protection of.” = slur?

Eat all of my shit and hair, Steve Roth. You sound like a real turd of a human being.

Kenya believe it?

FFS

🤡

Meanwhile, you can go to the hardware store and make yourself a shotgun for less than the cost of a fast food meal but nobody is talking about regulating pipes.

laughs in PRUSA

Idiots who don’t understand 3D printers pass laws regulating 3D printers to supposedly prevent gun violence. Gun violence unaffected. News at 11.

Can we please have idiots who don’t know what the fuck they’re doing stop passing clueless laws?