Your point seems very valid to me.
I don’t even want to buy their products anymore because they constantly cancel them and remove any support.
The only ones they continue, seem to be the ones they can use for data collection .i.e. Pixels and Nests. (I shamefully own both).
It is so frustrating as a consumer. Especially when you know that you have become the product for them to sell.
I can’t say much because of the NDA’s involved, but my wife’s company is in a project partnership with Google. She works in a very public facing aspect of the project.
When Google first came on board, she was expecting to see quality people who were locked in and knew what they were doing.
Instead she has seen terrible decision making (like “How the fuck do they still exist as company” bad decision making) and an over abundant reliance on using their name to pressure people into giving Google more than they should.
I remember when their motto was “Don’t be evil”. They are the very essence of sociopathic predatory capitalism.
About a scientific breakthrough in China?
Maybe an AI generated one, lol.
I stopped my Ring subscription but kept the doorbell camera.
It wasn’t until a year later when I was moving and the house was almost completely empty (still had internet/wifi setup) and I looked at the wifi app and saw that the ring doorbell still had significant data usage.
They were clearly still capturing my doorbell video.
My company actually got their own internal use AI that supposedly is safe for client information and is firewalled and not scraped.
It is not very useful, constantly is out of service, and I don’t trust for a second that it is secure/not scraped.
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To be fair, some days I feel like one.
I appreciate the clarification and the time you took to write your comment.
Thank you.
I’m the headline, “Entire HR Team Fired.”
In the story: about half the HR team was fired over several weeks.
A printed lie is libel, right?
You misunderstand. I went to from the A71 to the 6. I am only recently on the 9.
I am glad you have had a better experience than me. I am pretty happy with Pixel now but I am going to try the Graphene route this weekend.
I appreciate your response.
It was constantly giving out mistaken SOS messages. It would lock up and I’d have to constantly reset.
The final straw was when I was travelling to a work site I had never been to before. It locked up with a static screen and refused to reset. I had to stop at a gas station, at 4am, actually talk to another person and buy a map.
It was slow, buggy, constantly trying to get me to use their Samsung store, .etc…
When I moved to Pixel, it gave me the iPhone experience where shit just worked. And it integrated more things for me, which was convenient at the time. (But now I know it is scraping the fuck out of everything I do/see/hear.)
I just upgraded to the 9 and assume it’s scraping every bit of data it can from me. I will do it this weekend.
Sorry, no way I am going back to Samsung. I had the A71 and it was a TERRIBLE smart phone. I switched to the Pixel 6 and it was night and day.
I just need to get off my ass and install Graphene.
Ooh, more baseless claims of China’s technological advancement.
I’ll file this in the bullshit folder with the rest of their bullshit claims.
Google has gotten so fucking dumb. Literally incapable of performing the same function it could 4 months ago.
How the fuck am I supposed to trust Gemini!?
Google is earning ad revenue. So should Google get to keep it all then?
Just rented this and watched it with my wife and 12 year old daughter.
Wife rolled her eyes, but I knew she was game, but the 12 year old stayed through the whole movie! That is a rave review in her book.
Man I love this movie.
I have volunteered for this several times, including on time in DC.
My wife’s best friend was even a main fundraiser for them, at one time.
A. I enjoy it because I felt it was a way to honor someone’s memory and make a connection between them and the world they left behind. Christmas time, in particular, is a challenging time for both those deployed, and for those left at home. So displaying this kind of symbolic gesture at Christmas time is meaningful for a lot of folks. These kinda of things are really for the living, not for the dead. Watching Shadys wife place a wreath with the child he never knew was particularly heart breaking for me.
B. It started out as them trying to do something with scraps from their tree farm and it became so incredibly popular and demand so high, that’s all they do now.
C. Almost all the logistics and people are donated/volunteer. So the cost of each wreath mostly goes to the company. I can’t speak to how much the owners profit, though I do know they give a significant portion of their profits back to the charity and send some money back to the local wreath organizations.