Yup. Never said they weren't.
Lemmy is so toxic lmao. Downvoting me in their little echo chamber because I pointed out that western apps are "worse" for it.
KrummsHairyBalls
joined 1 year ago
Ok. Western apps do the same, but worse in my experience.
Not sure how cats are negative emotions. Put your tinfoil hat back on.
it’s probably what makes lemmy great, but the whole shtick also becomes old fast :)
It's also what will make lemmy fail. Average users are pretty much bullied away back to Reddit. If you want Reddit to fail, you can't make the alternative a shittier more toxic place to be. Lemmy currently has ~30K active monthly users and dropping steadily.
Personally with that number dropping, I don't see many instances staying up, as it's not free to operate, and app developers will surely dwindle.
Lemmy is absolutely not a welcoming place if you are interested in anything other than public transit, linux, or FOSS. Lemmy will end up like VOAT. Lemmy may not be filled with child porn, fat hate, and trans hate like VOAT was, but Lemmy is definitely filled with extremists.
The only reason I got rid of all of my smart home stuff (besides Google Home and ONE smart plug) was because of how unreliable that shit was. Not because of the "spying". Otherwise I might as well destroy my phone and unplug my internet line.
I'd ask Google to turn something on/off, and it wouldn't. Sometimes just straight up ignore me, or tell me it did it, but it didn't. Or when I'd tell it to turn something off and it would instead turn something else ON.
I just got to the point where I was screaming and getting angry all the time, and realized it's not worth it. I may be annoyed to get out of bed or walk downstairs to turn something off, but at least it's only momentarily, not an internal fucking rage.
It used to be great. They somehow got worse over the years. I tried using Home Assistant, but it just doesn't hit the same, especially since it doesn't fix the voice command problem. If I have to grab my phone to control stuff, I might as well just take a few steps, too.
The only smart plug I have left is to charge my eBike battery. Turns on when I plug it in, and turns off when it's charged.
Google Home Maxes (both EOL’d)
Except they continue to work perfectly. What would you like to see changed? Since it runs in the cloud, you're always getting up to date Google assistant tech on them. When Google adds new commands to Google Assistant, Google Home Max automatically gets them. A firmware update is not required.
a Google OnHub (updates stopped after ~18 months)
Google OnHub is part of what I said in my original comment. Google WiFi got fucked. However, you're completely lying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_OnHub
Released 2015.
and
"In December 2021, Google announced that OnHub routers would no longer receive any software or security updates."
18 months is 1.5 years. 2016 - 2021 is 5 years. Not sure why you're lying?
HTC M7(8?) Google Play Edition, Nexus…I had bad luck, but I’m not trusting another piece of Google hardware for my life.
The fact you're using examples from 2013 to criticize Google a decade later is wild. I guess it's easier to just be ignorant and hateful.
Google has kept every Pixel update promise so far. Why would you assume the 8 wouldn't get the updates they promised?
They quite literally have a perfect Pixel track record.
Samsung is the company that promises updates and then releases them on carrier locked phones and for some random reason not the unlocked variants, and then claim they fulfilled their promise lmao
Telegram is great. Pioneers of chat apps, honestly. They have every feature first, and no matter how many they add, their app seems to never become a bloated piece of shit.
I've recently switched from Telegram to RCS, but I used Telegram for nearly a decade.
The Nexus Q was given away at no cost to attendees of Google I/O, but the product's consumer launch was indefinitely postponed the following month, purportedly to collect additional feedback. Those who had pre-ordered the Nexus Q following its unveiling received the device at no cost.
So again, Google decided not to launch something, and people got it for free.
Google may be wishy washy for many things, but I'd argue their hardware support is mostly pretty good.
Fitbit has premium subscriptions. Not sure why anyone bought them to begin with.
Even before Google, Fitbit made it hard/impossible to sync your stats with other apps.
Get a Mi Band or something better.
Pixel gets more updates than Samsung. Chromecast is pretty well supported. Google Homes are supported.
The only Google hardware that still exists that I can remember off the top of my head, that got fucked, is Google WiFi. They stopped updating it months before they released Nest WiFi.
They shut down stadia, but everyone got a full refund.
You guys really need to take a chill pill. You guys are such conspiracy theorists.
My Tiktok is just cat videos. I literally never get fed anything else. Cat, technology, and science.
I'm not sure how they are fucking with me.
I guess you think showing me content is fucking with me, because you're only used to the 30K active users on Lemmy, and the minimal amount of content posted here per day, lmao.
Truly, though, this community is extremely toxic. You're all hating on me, downvoting me, because Tiktok is feeding me cat videos.