Going from my GOS Pixel to my Galaxy Tablet is like getting whiplash. I disabled and deleted a lot of useless shit with adb, but every now and then it’ll update and show me dumb shit. I got literally jumpscared by seeing Gemini in my app list a few weeks ago.
God I wish there were custom ROMs for it…
The app for my headphones has an AI assistant in it now. My headphones.
Glossing over the fact your headphones need an app??
If there is any place to put an AI assistant, it’s that.
Why do your headphones have an app anyway?
(An I was bothered that my headphone got into the penultimate last trend an reduced all the functionality into a single button… you know: on, off, bluetooth sync, increase/decrease volume, next track, change language. What is that phone that got into both the app for everything trend and the forced AI one?)
Anker?
I noticed their soundcore app did that last time I connected to wifi and it auto-updated… Inimmediately went looking for an old apk.
Out of curiosity, what does an app for headphones do?
I’ve got one for my bluetooth headphones.
You can change the color of the light ring on them, you can control the noise cancelling modes and set an equalizer.
You can also do some fancy camera scanning of your ears that is supposedly used to personalize their sound.
Imho all pretty gimmicky and useless, or something that doesn’t require a dedicated headphone app. The only thing really useful about it is, that sometimes they have trouble connecting to my phone through the standard Bluetooth menu. The app can take care of that, though. But maybe they could have spent the time developing that app to fix this issue altogether.
I use mine to set what the touch controls do. For each ear I have one touch button, and I can set an action for touch, touch X2, touch X3, and long touch. The actions are volume up, volume down, skip forward, skip back, next track, previous track, pause, open assistant (yuck), and probably more.
It has equalizers and settings for a feature that lets you “peek” at sounds around you, max volume safety settings, and it has some white noise/sleep sounds/meditation tracks.
Luckily, I can set the touch controls and equalizer, save it to the headphones, and delete the app. I don’t need to see the battery level for each earbud and the case; I charge it once a week and I’ve never run out. Don’t care what the number is.
For my regular headphones, not much. I can use the buttons on them to cycle through sound modes (no modification, sound canceling, and external mics) as well as the normal things like switch volumes, tracks etc.
Once I got the update, I deleted the app and got an older one. If they make it mandatory somehow, I’ll just not use the app and get different brand headphones when these break.
Yep. Where did you find the old apk?
I use apkmirror to get old versions of apps
I ran into this while installing Docker under Linux.
They call it Gordon.
Oooooookay maybe it’s time to switch to podman.
Does it cook?
Can’t wait for the bubble to pop
I’ve been waiting for twenty years for the real estate bubble to burst…
My friend (looking to buy a house) used to say Surely the housing prices can’t possibly grow any more! … That was 10 years ago. The bubble is happily bubbling away…
Miss bubble bobble…
Didn’t it burst 18 years ago?
It’s more like a deflation rather than one big pop. And I think it has already gently started.
The thing about bubbles is that they are not stable enough to exist in a mild deflation.
Laughing using Linux, de googled android and FOSS apps
True mostly for Windows.
On all my phones I’ve chosen to remove gemini completely and installed Dicio Assistant, it’s pretty solid and does all I need it to do. It’s a lot easier on resources too, Gemini loads and stutters while trying to do tons of bullshit for no reason. Dicio just opens, but I do find it being a bit quick to kill the mic.
Then again though, I’ve found tons of my apps have AI shit bolted on so the whole thing is still slow lmao
The only thing keeping me from using this is the “remind me” action that adds a task and reminder to my task list. Any idea if that’s configurable somehow?
This hit me today, an update just rolled out internationally for Xiaomi phones to give them a new “AI assistant”. If anyone has received the update I would recommend checking that it is disabled immediately. It thankfully isn’t enabled by default though.
The Yazio calory tracker app added a shitty AI assistant a while ago that tells you every time after scanning a pizza that you should eat less pizza. It cannot be disabled. It loads for two to three seconds and you have to wait for it to spew out its shit before continuing.
Everyone hates it. They had a perfectly good product, but to please investors or some shit they just had to add one more useless feature. Gotta love capitalism. After my subscription runs out, I’ll switch to OpenFoodFacts and FoodYou, fuck 'em.
Plug for cronometer. If they have AI, I haven’t noticed.
Happened to me with honor, just a chill day, the phone then updates and boom! AI SLOP; disabled everthing i could but it’s still shoved in my face
just installed antiX and I’m loving it. It turned a 200€ laptop into a powerhouse
