i have to confess that sometimes i talked to my phone to set up a tea timer (because the UI hoops to get there is unnecessarily complicated). which is the only use case i ever had of talking to my android phone. but that's also broken now 😁 also quite dystopian that they're sending my pleas for a tea timer to gemini cloud. longing for a linux phone, and some simple short command CLI for common tasks. oh, now the tea timer went off. so it worked and didn't work at the same time. nice.
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@mntmn
At this point I'd be happy with a dumb phone that had a good camera & hotspot capability.
@mntmn i'll never forget the first time i'd asked the assistant post-gemini to play a song, to which it asked me to unlock my phone. genuinely sat there for a minute in combined disbelief of "how did you guys eff this up" and "what the hell is the point of this thing then"
no surprise when switching it back to the old google assistant, it worked fine lmfao
@mntmn I use a properly dumb 4G phone for simple alarms. Such as reminding me to check on the wood burning stove I lit ten minutes ago. A few key presses to set the alarm.
My PinePhone is mostly used as a tablet device.
Perhaps something that a lot of UI designers have no idea about is that there are people like me who struggle with touch screens.
I often find myself swiping to much or too little and opening an app I never use.
Hence, I use the dumbphone for phone calls and alarms.
@the_wub hmm. maybe i should try that too
remember text adventures (infocom, magnetic scrolls)? they could do this better in the 80s on a commodore 64
lmao > The Infocom parser doesn’t use any particular bit of linguistic theory – Lebling etc just cobbled it together
there used to be a time when a core UI didn't have to have a ****ing legal disclaimer in fine print saying that it can make errors about people. this place is not a place of honor