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The best part is if you have Google Home/Nest products throughout your house and initiate a voice request you now have your phone using Gemini to answer and have the nearest speaker or display using Assistant to answer and they frequently hear eachother and take that as further input (having a stupid "conversation" with eachother). With Assistant as the default on a phone, the system knows what individual device it should reply to via proximity detection and you get a sane outcome. This happened at a friend's house while I was visiting and they were frustrated until I had them switch their phone's default voice assistant back to Assistant and set up a home screen shortcut to the web app version of Gemini in lieu of using the native Gemini app (because the native app doesn't work unless you agree to set Gemini as the default and disable Assistant).

Missing features aside, the whole experience would feel way less schizophrenic if they only allowed you to enable Gemini on your phone if it also enabled it on each smart device in the household ecosystem via Home. Google (via what they tell journalists writing articles on the subject) acts like it's a processing power issue with existing Home/Nest devices and the implication until very recently was that new hardware would need to roll out - that's BS given that very little of Gemini's functionality is being processed on device and that they've now said they'll begin retroactively rolling out a beta of Gemini to older hardware in fall/winter. Google simply hasn't felt like taking the time to write and push a code update to existing Home/Nest devices for a more cohesive experience.

I think it's a dig at Fox. Or MacFarlane?

Yup, I have friends all over the state and just the occasional glance over the years at what Republicans have pulled in the state has been horrifying.

A side note not related to gerrymandering - I've seen it thrown around that Cooper can't do it because a quirk of NC law says the Lt. Governor becomes Acting Governor anytime the sitting Governor is out of state and the current Lt. Governor is Mark "Some People Need Killing" Robinson, but I honestly think giving him a longer leash to let more people hear him bark nonsense and hate will hurt Robinson's chances of becoming governor. Sunshine is the best medicine and all of that (to the extent that it's not free media advertising as it was with Trump). It's kind of a headscratcher that Robinson was elected as Lt. Governor to begin with, the dude is a walking meme/idiot and the voters really dropped the ball on that one.

The good news is that we lowered carbon, the bad news is that cardiovascular disease and resulting deaths are through the roof and we still don't know what to do with all of the butter.

Cooper because he brings NC's electoral votes and helps keep a Trumpy person out of the governor's mansion. His political positions are bleh, but Harris is young and should something happen to her Cooper is a decent human and would make a decent president.

Cooper also has experience dealing with gerrymandered bad-faith Republican supermajority, so I don't think he'll be interested in playing the compromise game.

I feel like every article out there is missing this and keeps blaming Windows Update vs an update pushed to a specific piece of software by a third-party developer. I get end-users not understanding how things work but tech writers should be more knowledgeable about the subject they write about for a living.

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I got fooled (like a lot of people) in 2016 to vote 3rd party and we got trump.

So rare to see someone actually say these words outside of pointing the finger at others. Kudos.

Time to rebrand as CloudShrike to prevent future fuckups.

That would certainly make his unlikely career trajectory (constant lateral moves upwards once sussed out as a fraud or just plain bad employee) make even more sense than the typical "rich dad ergo fail upward" explanation.

Now do Alan Dershowitz!

You have to tell them that you love them, everytime, or it's not even close to a proper bye. That's how you get an in with the HR folks really quickly so you know that they have your back. Work on easy mode, more or less. Like and subscribe for more social lifehacks.

Very cool, I'll check that out. Thanks!