leekleak

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[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Thing is, not that many apps use Google Play Services. In fact, afaik F-droid explicitly forbids the use of gsm. I'd understand blocking sideloading of the apps that do use it, but if they are going block every single one, that seems a bit draconian and spiteful. Like I understand why they would be displeased with the harsh treatment they received from the US, but I don't think revenge is a good reason to hamper the user experience.

[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Honestly I like ribbons quite a lot as a design framework and hell, even padding can improve the UX, it's just a shame that neither of these elements have been used well in a decade.

[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 75 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Dunno man, it is possible to accept they make good games while still condemning their corporate bs...

[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They gotta be desperate for the money considering how much of it they're hemorrhaging every waking minute.

[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Fair enough. I sure hope that "business" feature stays business-only or opti-in.

In a way I get it since from my experience the C-suites really like not writing their emails themselves so this is their way of trying not to lose existing corporate customers, however I do see how their lack of transparency is concerning.

[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, ok my bad 😅

[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Hmm... Is that a problem with their more recent endeavors? I myself have only used their email and pasword manager services and I find their feature sets to be sufficient.

Also, marketing containig the letters "A" and "I" does not invalidate the product. While I absolutely despise seeing AI plastered everywhere, it is true that ML algorithms are often incredibly useful (even if LLMs aren't)

[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (10 children)

You know, people are mad at this for some reason, but while I don't see myself using this ever, I'm really glad a more privacy conscious alternative to the google ecosystem is growing.(Even if this product of theirs doesn't compete with them, many others do)

[–] leekleak@lemmy.world 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Honestly I think that it's models like these that output things that could be called art.

Whenever a model is actually good, it just creates pretty pictures that would have otherwise been painted by a human, whereas this actually creates something unique and novel. Just like real art almost always ilicits some kind of emotion, so too do the products of models like these and I think that that's much more interesting that having another generic AI postcard.

Not that I'm happy to see how much SD has fallen though.