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My nest to Google Home got "updated". I just to ask hey google what is the thermostat set to and it would tell me 70-whatever degrees. Now after the update it t
by mimikatz 11mo ago
My nest to Google Home got "updated". I just to ask hey google what is the thermostat set to and it would tell me 70-whatever degrees. Now after the update it tells me it is set to cool. Not that helpful, I have to ask, hey google what temperature is the thermostat set to, which is longer and I find annoying specific
- netsharc 11mo agoIt's "AI" but really not a lot of I.. on the new Pixel phones there are overlays, if it sees a foreign language one appears "This text is in French (etc). Do you want to translate?". The Google geniuses made sure that when you ignore or dismiss the prompt, if you leave that screen and come back multiple times, even within a few seconds, it will ask every time "Do you want to translate this text?".
- com2kid 11mo agoCounter point - the on screen translation stuff is way better than before, it can now translate text in pictures which is a huge benefit on many East Asian websites.
- netsharc 11mo agoSure it might work well... but some genius thinks it's great UX to prompt someone 10 times within 5 seconds because it thinks "Oh, the user is in a new screen, and there's foreign language in it!"... it's almost as bad as the 90's website doing a loop of window.open()'s before the browsers thought of blocking that Javascript function...