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I have an enterprise account and they added this button today. Guess what used to be there? The profile image where you could so conveniently swipe up or down to switch between gmail accounts. This is the kind of UI garbage that makes you want to move your entire company to another service just because you can.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

for fun ask gemini if water freezes at 20 degrees

[–] Liquid 7 points 11 hours ago

Gemini is completely unusable... So many questions are redirected to what they want me to ask, and not to an answer for what I asked. I wouldn't be against this if I could turn it off and if it actually added any value.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago

Delete your Google account already

[–] dual_sport_dork 38 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hey Google.

I still can't create folders in the Android Gmail app. But somehow you had time for this?

[–] ilickfrogs 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"I'm sorry, I don't know how to help with that"

[–] dual_sport_dork 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It gets worse. If you have "smart features and personalization" turned off for your Gmail account, which I do, you can't even ask Gemini anything. Not even to get the inevitably wrong answer.

But this still doesn't remove the damn button for it from the corner of your screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah that was the first thing I checked too as I was certain I disabled it all. Hopefully Gemini goes the same path as countless other Google products

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Gemini? The Teletext-alike web?

[–] Jackcooper 59 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I asked Gemini how to clear the cache on Google messages. It did not know.

IT COULDNT ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION ABOUT THE APP ITS PART OF

[–] [email protected] 18 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Gemini: "I can't help you! I only work here!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I can't help you. I don't work.

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[–] Guitarfun 12 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Apparently they can't roll out Gemini to my phone because I never gave them my birthday. It's a really old account and they've been sending me notifications to add my birthday for years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

I'm in the same boat. Keep getting android popups like IMPORTANT ACCOUNT NOTIFICATION YOU HAVE TO ADD YOUR BIRTHDAY no I don't fuck you swipe away.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It's for the best, I used to ask Google assistant for alarms and basic searches sometimes, Gemini gives excruciatingly long responses that won't shut up and recently started responding with things from my past emails assumingly from the Gmail account needed to set up the phone. So now I don't have Google assistant, and will no longer search anything with Gemini out of principle. Need a new phone OS it appears

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I accidentally triggered Gemini while taking a close-up photo of something in my hand. It threw up a nearly full-screen "how can I help?" message. I muttered "fuck off", and the message now read, "I'm sorry you feel that way..." Oh my god no. NO. Gemini now disabled.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It can't control its personality either. So when you say something like "set an alarm for 5:30am", and it hears you wrong you say, "Set An Alarm For 5 30 AM". Slowing down and annunciating. Then it responds Oh Kay repeating your cadence as if it needs to annunciate to you because you don't understand, haha. Every time someone has heard it around me as been like, wow, that's a sassy bitch.

[–] DreamlandLividity 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If you are willing to forego Google Pay, I strongly recommend GrapheneOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Very much this. I really dislike my pixel 6 pro (i don't understand the immense hype it got but, whatever), however, i will be getting another pixel when this dies just so i can use GrapheneOS. So good

[–] DreamlandLividity 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I have a 7 pro and it seems more like top of mid-tier device rather than a flagship, but I got it for GrapheneOS and will buy Pixel again just because of it.

[–] uppluck 1 points 5 hours ago

Had the 6 Pro, 7 Pro, 8 Pro, and now 9 Pro

I feel like the 8 Pro is the best of that series, but I don't have hard evidence to explain why

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (4 children)

it should be considered harassment to advertise like this

[–] Xuderis 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Advertisements should be considered harassment.

[–] Lemminary 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

We have a law in Mexico that says you can't hang up advertisements outside your shop at kids' eye level. I thought it was neat.

[–] Xuderis 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

That is neat!

Is it true that in Spanish, the word "propaganda" can be used interchangeably with "publicidad," which means advertising?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Yep, propaganda is very commonly used to talk about ads

[–] Lemminary 3 points 18 hours ago

Hmm, I never thought about it but it's apparently a thing. I'm a bit Americanized so my perception is a bit different than the general population, so TIL.

Here's the official definition by the Royal Academy of Spain that confirms it:
https://dle.rae.es/propaganda

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Proton does something similar in their email client 🤢

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw a Copilot prompt in MS PowerPoint today - top left corner of EVERY SINGLE SLIDE - and I had a quiet fit in my cubicle. Welcome to hell.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

Ah yes, the slop button. Truly the pinnacle of productivity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"adding a feature" = "forcing"

The profile image is still there, right beside the gemini button, and you can still swipe on it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago

Well I didn't ask for this and I pay them for this and multiple accounts. If it wasn't forced there would be a setting to turn it off

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Despite have AI off as much as possible within our Google Workspace at work, today all of my coworkers have received multiple ads / prompts by Google to use Gemini. In Gmail, in Google Meet, and more. Our policies don't allow us to use it so this is just ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are billing your company for it as well

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