@benjojo or it’s a very nice way to say „battery low“ 🪫

@benjojo argh missed the „show full post“ button and just read the first 2 lines 🤦‍♀️ just ignore it 🤦‍♀️

@benjojo Ever considered grapheneos? Great degoogled experience for Pixels.

@benjojo @bamboombibbitybop I completely understand this stance. I was also sick of (unofficial) LineageOS breaking hardware support or something else on every second update. Then I switched to GrapheneOS and it’s just a rock-solid, production-ready system once installed. And the install is straightforward and easy as well. No issues whatsoever with the system, including major Android updates. For app compatibility: you can install the unmodified Play Store and Services and they run in the normal app sandbox. This means all apps should work as well as on any other system, except of course those that use attestation (Play Integrity). There can always be papercuts with apps, but other than attestation it’s either resolved automatically (exploit protection compatibility settings) or with really fast updates. And attestation apps are fortunately still a minority, mostly Google Pay and some banking apps.

And you get the most secure mobile OS with a minimalistic system and real privacy along the way 😃

@benjojo @bamboombibbitybop I try to rely on them as little as possible, but generally the stock firmware has been an absolute catastrophe, with the exception of the Eten Glofiish X650, whose WinMo6.1 was decent and not bloated. I abhor Android, and as soon as you need to rely on a proprietary äpp for something, an (ideally refurbished so they don’t earn extra money) iOS device, even without running Apple stuff yourself, is the smaller pain. (It also lets you disable vibration system-wide; hypersensitive neurospicy rejoice.)

I was reasonably ok with the LiquidSmooth kitkat ROM on the HTC Desire, even got Munzee to run without the entire Google crap, but that didn’t last long, and Android 5 dropped a wholly different, much worse UI in an "eat it or sod off" way, and I’ve nothing but loathe for Android, even including AOSP, since. I do miss Suntimes and some c:geo features, but that’s it.

@benjojo this is awful.

The model says "I miss you, too" because that's the most "appropriate" thing to say in this situation, and that's what the other person likely wants to hear.

I think you would have a hard time replying "I miss you, too" if you didn't mean it.

I know I would.

Google by offering this liar of an "assistant" implies that it thinks most people are such liars, and just tell others what they want to hear with no concern for truth or sincerity.

I hope Google is wrong.

@benjojo Apple calls this "writing tools" on their platforms and its existence is why I have Apple Intelligence disabled entirely. I got sick and tired of trite, corpo-speak responses appearing in my keyboard suggestions when texting friends.

At least it's just Settings → Apple Intelligence & Siri → switch off, though.

@benjojo The thing that makes me so sad about this is, now, if somebody says "I miss you, too," there will be a part of your brain that questions it. This technology is eroding our trust in other peoples' humanity, which has *always* been a thing people take on faith. Who even are we if can't believe that other people are capable of inward thoughts and beliefs and free will?

@benjojo I had to go and disable that on my new phone just recently as I've never had suggestions on on my (non-gboard) keyboard, and the specific location it pops the suggested reply up at blocks most of the message you might hypothetically be replying to. It's like it's designed to make you engage with other humans as little as possible by literally interceding in and occluding your conversations

@benjojo less time spent on personal niceties means more time for productivity

Edit: seriously though, I despise this kind of thing. It even leaves me feeling like maybe I was going to say that, but now I have to come up with something different because the suggested phrase is now "tainted" by being zero effort mechanical trash