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We’re upgrading Google Assistant users on mobile to Gemini, offering a new kind of help only possible with the power of AI.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Good thing I never used Google Assistant then.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I feel bad for visually impaired.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Astute point, they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater here and hurting the disabled community to push their inferior product that nobody really asked for.

Just because I don't use it doesn't mean others who need it also don't.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 2 days ago

It happens, we forget the sheet diversity of experiences because we're human. I try to have multiperspectivity, but even that is limited to one's own experiences and imaginative abilities, on the best days.

I feel jealous for the hearing impaired. Just think of everyone and they're dog showing off how dumb it is all the time.

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I actually use it a bunch for setting reminders and it does pretty good at that.

For sure, but I am also capable of doing that with my thumbs.... which is what I do.

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Will they hold the power button hostage again?

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is there a viable replacement to google assistant that's self hosted or local?

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[–] Geodad@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Also except my Pixel running Graphene OS.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Gemini eats glue. We need a much more reliable model to replace Assistant.

Is there a tradein program to get my old phone back?

[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Didn't read the article and I haven't really used Android in a almost a decade, but aren't most android devices on seriously old versions and sold with 2GB RAM or less. Or are shit Android devices less common nowadays?

Last time I seriously considered an Android device was 8ish years ago and devices running Android 2 were still being sold new.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Modern barrel bottom Android phones in the past few years require an ARM64 system, and come with minimum 4GB / 64GB RAM and Storage. Good phones will have 8, 12, even 16 GB RAM and up to 1TB Storage.

My old, crappy phone that retailed for $250 (got for much cheaper) had 4GB RAM (released 2019 or 2020), and my current one has 8GB RAM. The one before that had 2GB IIRC, and was released around 2017, and it was crappy for the time.

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