• tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          5 days ago

          It did, and then real estate investment portfolio companies bought all the property that individuals lost in the crash for super low rates, so now it’s even worse 🙃

        • Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml
          2·
          4 days ago

          I am using the Librem 5. I don’t do anything all that demanding so it is okay for me. Basically light web browsing, Signal messages, some occasional SMS/MMS and calls. I was one of the pre-orders so I saw all the drama unfold with delays and denying refunds, but I received my device and have been daily driving it for 3 years now. I like it overall and don’t plan to go back to dailying ios or android.

          Would I recommend Purism Librem 5 to others? I dunno actually. Despite the refunds fiasco, Purism made every effort to deliver a phone to everyone who ordered one. My phone works fine, but it is noticeably slower than most normie phones. There are more options out there like the FLX1, but I have no experience using it so I can’t speak to it. I would say, it’s worth a shot getting the FLX1 for the slightly beefier hardware. Just be sure to temper your expectations and take your time testing things out.

  • Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    The tech industry has adopted a rapist mentality with AI. If they force themselves AI on you enough (even without your consent) then they’re betting that you will eventually accept it. At the very least, you might stop resisting.

  • Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 days ago

    These virtual assistants are entirely a sham to artifically drive up stock value. This is how it works:

    • Company A is big tech that invested billions of dollars building up a LLM model that nobody asked for to increase it’s stock value
    • Company A incorporates its AI model into all of its products even if nobody wants them to, once again, artificially increase the stock price
    • When company A runs out of places in its own products to shove the AI, it moves over to company B where it does everything in its power to convince them get the AI and incorporate it into everything
    • Company B sees company A’s sham and wants in, and so it buys the AI and smears its feces on all its products to artificially inflate its own stock price.
    • When Company B is exhausted, company A moves on to company C, D, E, and so on and so forth.

    In the end all the companies, or more specifically, all the executives, win in the short term by making billions upon billions by artificially increasing stock prices and thus creating a bubble. They’re the only winners. Regular employees at these companies still get treated like shit, consumers are getting much worse products, and the economy is doomed to another recession due to their actions… but that won’t stop them because they know the people won’t do shit, the government is in their pockets and won’t stop them, and if a recession does really happen, they’re confident they’ll get bailed out.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    6 days ago

    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

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      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?

      • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        5 days ago

        Good question, although I’m unsure too since I don’t use it for reminders, I usually use it for weather, opening apps (since the app draw is a mess of like a hundred plus apps I’ve forgotten to clean up) and web searches, although I’ll look into that, since I’ve heard dicio is pretty configurable