ITT: “how could Google ruin shit and foist worse shit on me!?!”
Bruh, it’s Google.
That’s fine. Google devices have been disappearing from my life as well, so this will not be a long-term problem.
Breaking news, google spyware removed in favour of another google slop spyware
I use GA to spell shit for me because I have senior moments. It’s just easier to click a button and say spell naseaous for me.
See? Fuck that word. Also fuck Google. For more reasons than just this.
Because it makes you feel sick, in so many words?
To preserve our privacy? (insert Padmé and Anakin stare meme)
It’s a shame, now I’ll never get to try it…
Can the Gemini assistant set reminders yet? Such a basic function of the old Google assistant and yet Gemini has failed every time I tried it in the past
F: play Spotify (activated by multi button on headset)
A: Please unlock your phone yada yada yadaBRO! GUESS WHY I USED THE MULTI-BUTTON >:( I CAN’T USE MY HANDS TO UNLOCK IT AND PLAY MUSIC MANUALLY.
It’s been abled to set alarms for me haven’t tried reminders. I also use it to create events from me on my calendar.
It connects to my Google home now too, which it wasn’t able to do before
Assistant tasks like this are probably the only semi reasonable LLM use case. If it was less resource intensive anyway
You don’t really need a powerful LLM for personal assistant tasks.
Even the small ones are resource hogs.
At the vwry least my still remaining google home (bought in 2017 or something) became somewhat useful now and is able to understand context.
E.g.:
F: When’s the next solar eclipse starting in Germany A: In Germany, Cologne the eclipse will be visible at XY
F: No, when will it be in hometown
A: The eclipse in hometown XYZBefore it was completely incapable of achieving it and was basically a glorified voice activated timer.
The air freshener original device?
My grandmother used it for calling. She’d long press the home button and say ‘Call Aliya’ etc. It has stopped working last week, in both google assistant and gemini. If anyone knows an alternative, please let me know.
You might have to remap the home button to Gemini maybe?
Tried that but gemini seems incapable of placing calls
Just… perfect Google. Bravo.
It’s already dead on my phone
pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.googlequicksearchboxNeed a follow up on this, since I’ve always assumed that package is essential.
- Is this on a Pixel?
- What happens to the space where the search bar is on the launcher?
- Does it break anything else?
I’m on graphene and I don’t have it even with gsf and google play stuff installed
Never used it. Always first thing I disable
OMFG.
Gemini is neat, but it SSUUUUUUUUCCCKKS at being a voice assistant.
It will frequently produce a fucking essay in response to being asked to turn the lights on or off.
I just gave it a go again, 30% of the time it pretends to do what you ask without actually doing it. 20% of the time it flat-out refuses while never failing to mention that I really should enable gemini activity tracking. 40% of the time is claims this functionality does not exist, even though it was given the ability to “ask assistant” to do things only it can do (like identify music by listening to it). 10% of the time it will successfully hand off to assistant, which will then instantly do as asked.
The problem is Google is treating all those functions (“tool calling”) as just any other response, they didn’t even bother training the model to recognize and process the requests properly using the tools. They did the Google thing of just putting the function in and calling a day and forgetting about it.
So without proper reinforcement learning it responds with the same casual randomized answer-shaped sequence of words as ever, you’re just lucky if the part of it that knows to look up the tool call instructions responds, and luckier if it does it right AND submit the tool call formatted right. If it forgets to look up it’s tool call instructions, it might randomly tell you it can’t do it because you got an answer from a part of the network trained on data from when there weren’t models that could.
Fixed that for you
Gemini
is heat, but itSSUUUUUUUUCCCKKS
I use home automation to help manage a disability and have been meaning to move to home assistant but right now I’m still using google home devices…
Guess that means I have to move up my schedule. Really wish I did this before the ai hardware price spike like I was considering doing.
Can’t wait to go see if thin client or needed components will cost me a billion dollars. ALSO BECAUSE OF AI. Fucking stupid horseshit, I have no money
Read the article….
There are no changes on Google TV, Google Home or smart displays at this stage.
Thanks! Meant to come back and give it a read so I could learn specifics but really didn’t wanna try to wade through stressful stuff right now
Though my trust it will stay that way is not super high 😅
Home assistant integrates with Google Home devices as well, so you can start small with your HASS OS device and make a slow transition of your GH devices as you change them out (or retain them). My best friend loves his HASS and GH, and uses them both heavily with HASS as the main driver.
Well this fucking sucks. Gemini is complete garbage in Android Auto, I thought I was stuck with it until I discovered a couple weeks ago that I could choose to continue using the assistant.
Now it’s being ripped from my hands again.
This is total ass. Fuck Gemini. Fuck AI. Fuck Google.
Gemini is complete garbage in Android Auto
It also can’t read labels on gmaps. Can’t read people’s “nickname” field in contacts (there are so many Roberts). And can’t access or write notes without also requiring access to my emails (hell no).
Those are the three things I use AA for, and it’s objectively worse at every single one of them.
I couldn’t get it to create a reminder for me when I tried the other day.
I have a Google Nest speaker in my kitchen and while cooking “Hey Google set a timer for 5 minutes” … “I cannot do that at this time”
“Ask me again in 5 minutes.”
Worse.
It will fucking lie and say it set a timer or reminder, and if you ask it “wtf” in response when it clearly didn’t (if you notice), it’ll fucking explain it’s just roleplaying at being a voice assistant.
If it makes you feel better, I’m sure someone in Google got the promotion they so desperately needed.
Oh for sure. They can proudly tell their shareholders that every one is using Gemini now, which I’m sure they’ll eat that up even though we’re all being forced into it with no recourse.
“Look, everyone is using YouTube Music! We are successful and smart!” [because we shut down Google Play Music and forced users to install YouTube Music, and measured the stats before they all uninstalled it]
