There's clearly an attitude of "we know what you want better than you" at google right now that can be seen by the ridiculous shit coming out of Gemini. This is why their search has been getting so bad. They make a lot of assumptions of what you want, where it used to just give you what you were asking for
Gemini is emblematic of why Google products suck now
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The search sucks because combatting seo is a complicated theoretical problem and not a react frontend for some turbo autists ai algo
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Bardfinn x3
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Bardfinn x2
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Bardfinn
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gemini to me will always be: https://geminiprotocol.net/
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Google works fine for 90% of people. These r-slurs just type a stream of consciousness into the search box and google has too figure out what they mean and give them results they can understand.
For the few with a brain, google just needs too bring back verbatim search that actually works and has all the old search operators.
Black Lives Matter.
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google really sucks , like if you search for "hot nude girls 12 year old in a gangbang" they won't show you anything . They have always been woke.
smh
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Wokeness isn't really the issue, although it doesn't help
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It's been sucking since at least since Pichai took over. Too much making products shit to get in the black and because they have nothing better to do than to try reinventing the wheel a hundred times
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You assume they're interested in giving you what you want rather than in spreading their ideology
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Bardfinn x4
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Shits broke right now, sorry dog
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you are NOT the target demographic. so stop demanding
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The name alone is pissing me off Gemini is my crypto exchange Now I get updates about their gay butt unusable AI and I think it's something about my
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I used to use them as an on-ramp for altcoins, this whole thing was very confusing at first
Current hyperfixation:
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what's the current rate for dramacoin?
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Seriousposting now:
Google is r-slurred
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I don't see the problem. Racism was never a thing.
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I don't understand it, did anyone actually care about the original thing with Blacks being identified as Gorillas beyond a brief moment?
Right now they're actively giving themselves a reputation as having a woke scold nanny of an AI, and bad will takes a while to turn around. All the good engineers and scientists graduating will want to go and work on the cool new other AIs, that are fun and do things, not the one that you have to tip toe around.
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Like most things like that it was just hysterical people on Twitter, which then got picked up by journaloids
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It's probably the wildest PR stunt I've ever seen. Will anyone actually use Gemini over OpenAI's products or StableDiffusion? I fail to see how this benefits Google in any way.
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I genuinely think it wasn't a top-down decision, but a well-placed activist or 20 who caused Gemini to be in the state it's currently in.
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It really is shocking how bad their llms and generative models are. If you asked anyone in the know who was the leader in ml before these came out they'd be on the list for sure
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No.
This is a symptom of companies reflexively giving in to laypeople bitching because they lack any kind of a backbone and/or reflexively apologize for dumb shit.
"The model only shows good looking cats when I ask for a cat!"
No shit, people usually don't take pictures of ugly cats, this doesn't harm ugly cats or reflect a conspiracy against them. Try a prompt that says "ugly cat"
Reeeeee the model is raysis
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AI was good for like two weeks. But now i ask it for something, it gives me the wrong answer. I tell it that doesn't work and then it gets stuck in a loop of providing the wrong answer. But hey, at least it said "sorry" first. So lifelike!
Then when you professionally tell it that it still has work to do, it acts like you called it a c*nt and shuts down. Hamstringing AI should be with the thought of not letting it have access to sensitive documents or exterminating humans. Instead, i have to treat it like a hysterical political coworker who is sometimes helpful but i take the advice with a grain of salt.
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I think the issue Google is running into is that appears to be no real vision from leadership. Microsoft is trying to rule every facet of your desktop computer life, Apple is trying to rule every facet of your cell phone life, Meta is trying to take over your life entirely, and NVDA is trying to help all those other companies realize their goals by making AI chips for them. Then there's Google who for some reason slips in changes once a year that make all of their products objectively worse.
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The problem isn't them thinking this. The problem is them being too dumb to be correct.
Like Gemini wouldn't be so bad if it were well designed with respect to forcing diversity, but it literally just pastes "diverse ethnicities and genders" into any query you make.
They're just not good enough programmers anymore to get away with the kind of social engineering shit they want to pull.
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I lay the blame with "ai saftey" idiots and management that enable them. I think Google has smart people there that could do a good job. This solution reeks of a quick fix by ai safety people, who are always someone who was too stupid to make it in actual ML but still want to be in the hot part of the tech field
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The "ai ethics" field has been a grift from start to finish, it's a bunch of woke types who have no actual idea how to build models. They just get paid stupid amounts to complain.
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AI ethics should be totally set up BEFORE we really need it imo
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AI ethicists should be rounded up and put in camps and Altman should get his 7 trillion
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No, give me what i fricking ask for.
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Hush now, listen to your betters
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This is apparently the twitter of the product manager for Gemini - seems like he cranked the anti-white and anti-male settings to 11 in the AI options :
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If only he had set his anti-ginger settings to
KILL
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A world without ginger chicks is a world I'd never want to live in.
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I think the constant renaming is another microcosm.
They can't commit to anything and have no focus.
The fact they've been so far behind in AI is insane as well. They should've been at the forefront instead they're being BTFO on commodity hardware by a “non-profit” upstart.
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Yep, they really have taken an nosedive since they went diversity hires. I've had a Fitbit for years and they've destroyed it. Probably going with a competitor next time, which will be within a year because Fitbit only lasts for a year, get replacement from warranty and then replacement dies. I was going to do a writeup on why Google destroyed Fitbit but lost motivation.
They've always shoved changes down your throat, but Gemini is so frickin bad it's a joke. Same with Fitbit.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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I would read that write up
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I have a garmin vivosmart 5 and I like it. As a bonus the Garmin app has basically all the features of the "premium" fitbit app but there's no premium subscription or anything, you just buy the device and that's it
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Garmin is what I was looking at! My only procrastination motivation was all my stats are on Fitbit since 2018 so I'm starting over. They've fricked up the Fitbit interface and programming so badly that it's worth switching.
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I have an older Fitbit (Inspire 2) and hate it.
All I need is a clock, step counter, and vibration when I get texts.
It was supposed to be an upgrade from my Inspire 1, adding a much-needed water lock.
Turns out they put two capacitive sensors on the sides instead of a physical button. Normally that'd be ok, but simply bending your wrist is enough to touch both sides and wake it up.
So whatever, turn water lock on so it can't do anything. Whoops, the "tap to unlock" relies on the accelerometer rather than touch sensation. As a result, any rhythmic tapping (such as clapping or using a hammer) will unlock it.
I turned off all the fitness-related stuff. Despite that, it'll randomly start vibrating and displaying fireworks and CONGRATS, 150 OF SOMETHING 🎉🎉🎉. I don't know what. I can't find any setting to turn it off. It would also do Active Zone Minutes because apparently they think a person can't tell when they're working up a sweat.
Just count my steps, send it to the insurance, and vibrate when I get a peepeepic. That's all I'm asking for. I wanted something relatively small and inexpensive because it's going to get rubbed against concrete walls and shit at work.
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Hopefully converting the video will let it work. Videos and pictures taken on a Pixel piss off Cloudflare for some reason
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They actually got rid of the touch thing in the newer ones, but I know what you're talking about. Also, water resistance doesn't work for me. I noticed that it always breaks when I go in the pool with it.
I use it for metrics and running stats. I'm not a fast runner, but sometimes I try to beat my time. Lately, I've been doing "running" (if you can call it that lol) in my house because of the cold. Fitbit would pick up on my indoors running in place and would estimate steps based on swing of the arm. Google's diversity hire programmers still try to use GPS and have me running up and down my block so now estimated mile time is totally fricked where Fitbit would at least give me a close estimate.
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Pixel iterations also keep getting shittier
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The problem is that most people don't look beyond Apple or Samsung, especially on the US market. Instead of trying to make a better/equally good but cheaper phone, companies are trying to carve a niche, but it's not working all that well - Sony or Google just can't offer anything compelling. Only tiny portions of the market care about dumb niche features.
Just look at this shit, beyond the first three brands it's dire, even the chinkshit like Oppo, Vivo, Huawei or Realme are carried heavily by asian nations, where they're marketed a lot and mostly sell cheaper phones resulting in lower ASP and profits.
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IR blasters and tiny hdmi ports were the 2 things I wished stuck around
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Xiaomi phones almost all have IR blasters I think, other chinese brands do too. HDMI not really, but you can get video out of USB-C port on some phones.
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I was thinking about getting a Xiaomi but it was actually cheaper to get a lightly used pixel off ebay
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I don't like their software tbh, had one phone and one tablet, the hardware is probably the best you can get for the price, but I ran into software issues. I'm okay dealing with them but I wouldn't recommend it to a complete normie.
I guess I'm trying to say you're not missing out on much.
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Any tablet recommendations? I want to avoid samsung because they abandoned the last tablet I got after 1 update and basically rendered the thing a paperweight
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Tablet updates are probably gonna suck on everything Android, I'm afraid. Expect at most 1 Android version on top of what it releases with, and a few years of security updates.
IDK what your market and needs are, hard to give you a specific model.
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It seems insane to me that Motorola/Lenovo has a higher market share than Google in American phones.
That's what graphs are showing me but idk how I can believe it.
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My graph is worldwide if you're talking about that, though it sounds like you're looking at other ones that are US specific.
I could believe it, Motorola has good market presence and IMO the best brand name phones in the budget category, and they probably have good deals with carriers.
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Nah I just Googled it
This was the chart it pulled up
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/us-smartphone-market-share/
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Lenovo is sneakily integrating itself into US markets. It's better value than pretty much any other quality brand. You see it a lot in corporate settings now over Dell.
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Thinkpads remain goated compared to all competitors besides Apple, yes. Their success with the motorola brand is harder to explain though. I haven't paid attention recently but aren't most of the moto androids either really cheap or really niche?
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talkin bout cellphones tho
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True
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They're also prioritising the links that give them money over what you actually want
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100% agree, I was just typing up another comment about how it's probably ruined YouTube and Google music (now YouTube music).
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!codecels is there a userscript that makes ddg or yandex or even bing look similar to google? im so used the layout I feel lost on others
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bing looks literally the exact same as good idk what you're talking about lol
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it doesn't do full width
for some reason bing being all the way to the left makes it look like its wasting a lot of my space
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https://searx.be/ is more centered and this instance even has 2 different skin. You can set it to bing and yandex as providers
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You really think a company would do that? Just go on the internet and make money???
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Feel like Google was making good money before they went and fricked up all their shit though...
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It's not enough for a company to make good money, they have to make gooder money each quarter or else the sky is falling and they have to lay off 30% of their workforce
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