Honestly. I’m ok with this.
Google: Fix google fucking drive. Stop this AI shit and put the billions of dollars into making your products basically functional.
great to know!
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
cRazi_man@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
At this point, anyone disappointed by Google has self inflicted wounds. Unless your employer forces you to use it, there’s really no excuse to not Degoogle.
Twig@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
What’s the best alternative to Google Drive?
Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I think of all the unified tech ecosystems, Apple is hands down the best but Google is still the best non-Apple option. The only other option I think is Microsoft, and I would rather drown in burning gasoline than go back to anything Microsoft touches.
Obviously the best option is to host your own stuff through open source, which I am doing, but it’s taking time, it’s a lot of work to keep up with. Google gives me a bunch of barely passable tools accessible from anything with an internet connection.
I did degoogle for browser and search though. Firefox and Kagi makes the internet almost tolerable.
blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I have a friend who works for Google, in a non-computer science department but one that does require some amount of decent computer hardware (compute, IO, etc.) They go through this cycle every year or so; their team uses MacBook Pros because it fits their needs the best -> department heads above them see this and take the MacBook Pros away and replace them with Chromebooks -> team cannot accomplish their goals on the Chromebooks, so they lobby up the chain and eventually get their MBPs back -> … ad infinitum.
ratel@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
GoogleDrive has always been hot garbage and now it’s just glazed hit garbage. Best to just leave unless you’re forced to use it by your employer.
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
you can mount google drive as a swap. what other provider allows you to do that?
RogueBanana@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
Fixing the products and services does not increase the shareholder value.
DrCake@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apple being shit at AI might actually be a blessing. When the bubble pops, they won’t have lost so much, and until then they can get AI companies to pay to be the Siri model (not sure if that’s what they are actually doing though).
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think Apple could do AI as well as everyone else. They just recognized that everyone else is doing it badly because there’s no good way to do it so they backed out.
JC1@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I think I agree with this. When you look at what apple does, they take their time and wait to make sure the UX is good. Recently, we see it with the iPhone duo where they waited to have a product that looks nice, isn’t too bulky and they reworked the UI to make sure the UX is good. They are not the type to dive head first into the AI slop, it’s not their type. But internally, I’m sure they are experimenting and trying to polish the features for a good UX.
I personnaly dislike Apple for other reasons, but I must give credit where credit is due. It is imo a good philosophy that I could get behind, but in Apple’s case, there are too many red flags.
Mika@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Apple is not a competitor for anthropic/openai, it’s competitor to nvidia. Latest mac studio is very local AI capable, with 256gb uram and upcoming 512gb, while not terrible inference speed.
They are selling shovels, basically.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Their previous model has been to sell hardware, rent media, and give software away.
Buage_@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I agree!
LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t buy it. I really do think this is just a weird form of advertising. Like, “WHOA THIS AI IS GONNA KILL US?! I wanna subscribe to see how powerful it is!”
Absolute bologna. Just total hogwash. I mean full on horserubbish!
rothaine@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Maybe it’ll just kill the billionaires?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’d be funny if AGI emerged, hooked into manufacturing plants, and announced the best way forward for humanity was for it to kill the billionaires.
LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or itself. What if we get AGI finally and the first thing it does is delete itself?
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
You’re right for the push back, and I shouldn’t directly kill you.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
AI is a tool to do mass layoffs without making your stocks devalue. What happens after all the major companies do mass layoffs? Not a question investors are interested in, so it must be an externality with no barring on economics.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just don’t think investors see the point of the American consumer market.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the best explanation of the real reason for the glorified search engine I’ve yet to hear
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The purpose of a system is what it does, not what it’s intended to do!
Gotta give credit, I stole this insight from Cory Doctorow.
Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Apple: we are now going to spy on everyone through Apple watches
Doom@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget they are designed by mosad. So they also might blow up.
veryblandusername@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks ago
All of it is bullshit to try and get a bailout from the government and a monopoly.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Iphone equipped with AI…
boonhet@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Opt-in and not available in the EU.
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Apple has always been late but made existing things more efficient and better. So just wait for few years and apple will find more efficient way to kill us all. \s
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apple will normalize and perfect all the subscriptions.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Apple: I want to possess you, steal your money, then kill you.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Shouldn’t they take a number then?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Hint: they aren’t going to kill you.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is there actually any benefit to having a phone that folds?
notabot@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
A bigger screen can make many tasks easier. I’d quite like to be able to see a decently large terminal window and a keyboard at the same time for instance.
Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
It’s really great if you like phones with extremely obvious points of failure. My wife had a zflip where the hinges got stuck and snapped, and they replacement they sent her had the flex cable inside malfunction to the point where it felt like the phone was going to melt. Two different ways to fail in the same spot. The future is here!
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Upgrading every two years because the old one broke, rather than because of a crippling addiction to consumerism?
kofe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I get for people wanting the larger screen size that folds, but I’d like one of the smaller ones so it’s not as heavy and fits into smaller pockets
blitzen@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I carry a phone and small tablet for most things. Having them combined would be pretty cool. Although I have been bearish on foldables since the beginning.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bullshit
Bullshit
Good for you. I still don’t care.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Apple’s now copying Samsung for development ideas.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You could always fold an iPhone. It’s just, you could only do it once
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can do it way more than once. It just won’t work after first.
Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but its nice you dont have to put the hinge in yourself anymore