I swear that with each update they’re adding more and more artificial stupidity

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      OP blames Google for the crap the user installs. Lemmy attitude is always a good shield for large companies because it makes any complaint seem absurd by association.

      • CustodialTeapot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        It’s sad that I was hoping for Lemmy to be a place to have a better vetting of comments by votes but its frankly worse than Reddit.

        Its hive mind is sadly becoming less diverse and just up votes “LOL THIS THING BAD” with no sourcing or anything.

        I’ve found myself sadly going back to Reddit more because the comments are just of higher quality and diversity of opinions.

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          11 months ago

          Yeah it’s a very very one-sided community, especially in regards to companies and governments and so on. And it’s not like there’s not a lot to complain about, but people here freely apply the same broad strokes they complain about on reddit et al. And that in turn shields problematic stuff from criticism because all criticism is so absurd and overdone.

          There’s just little nuance in online discussions in general, and less so here. Partially of course becuase of how small Lemmy is.

        • poopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Completely agreed; your remarks resonate with me. I have found that the “hive-mind mentality” is prevalent on Lemmy, in particular in this community and to the extent that discourse is actively shut down with inane comments that just mope and complain on top with in-depth or factual corrections downvoted.

          I personally find this exceedingly frustrating. On Reddit, most context and constructive debate was found in top comments. However, here on Lemmy, it’s more at a high school TikTok level, with top comments typically all very similar; mostly “some company is evil incarnate” or “I proudly pirate copyrighted material and here are the ways I’ve justified this for myself.”

          None of this contributes to an informative comment section and it grinds my gears. I just wish this community would be better.

    • Usually_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      That would be approximately 48,188,975 and 12,795 bananas respectively, assuming 8 inch average banana length. What fruit are we using for scale over here anyways? I missed some committee meetings.

  • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    11 months ago

    Google Assistant is definitely getting worse and worse all the time. When the Google Homes first released they were actually pretty useful and handy. I was willing to pick a few up and they served a good purpose. They ran CIRCLES around Alexa and all those.

    Now many years later, the devices don’t hear questions correctly, have to ask them four different times, they can’t even pick up my wife’s prompt words anymore, don’t even give reasonable answers when they do get the question right… It’s made hundreds of dollars worth of devices infuriating and useless.

    I bought a product that worked. It no longer works because it’s been “updated”.

    • wander1236@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      The worst part is that they’re still way better than Alexa. I hate the Google Home app; I can’t use the Alexa app.

      • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, that’s still true as well. But it feels like one step ahead. Before it was in a totally different field. It’s gotten that much worse.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        No, a lot of people recognize it has gotten worse, but the post is a device that doesn’t run off google maps but rather another guidance program so it will end up off topic everywhere

  • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    Sometimes I really struggle to understand how Google Maps works. I take some time finding the right area I want to search in, center the map in a very specific place, then search for a term or category and then it takes me to a completely different country to show the results.

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Everybody’s in here complaining but the app just wanted to show its user the rip in space and time it discovered just down the street.

    • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      And then you see the route trajectory making you turn into a river to flood your vehicle, or worse, have you turn onto a beach because the route trajectory goes right into the ocean like it thinks you are driving some sort of boat mobile.

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Google maps has been getting worse as well. I’ve been moving off after many years of using it.

      • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        What do you use? I tried OSM but found the navigation interface required too many taps on hidden menus to set up and to close. It’s easy to re route on the fly on Google and just tap finish when arrived, but that’s not the case for OSM.

        • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Osm+. It took a long time to set up, but it was worth it. What also helped is downloading as many local maps as possible and set up favorites. It’s not perfect, but for what I use it for, I like it.

          • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            Osm is okay, but honestly so far behind GMaps that I’d rather go blind than trust it. Better chance to arrive.

            It’s still the closest and of course beats Apple Maps but being lost beats Apple Maps. But it also highlights how good Google Maps is at navigation.

            • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              If you rather go blind than trusting any digital maps, then the only other option is going back to old fashion paper maps that existed before Google Maps was a thing.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Isn’t this just gmaps search?

      Which is also incidentally running on Android Auto which is also google?

      Edit: nvm it’s a different nav app lmao

  • Lionel@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
    20·
    11 months ago

    Do you guys like Burger King? I stopped eating there a long time ago and feel no need to go back after the foot lettuce incident…

  • bfg9k@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    11 months ago

    The Magic Earth app on Android auto does this to me all the time, I’ll bring up a saved address that’s only a short drive away and it will say it’s like 2000km away until I actually start navigation.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    I swear it used to be possible to tell the assistant to navigate to the nearest [franchise] and it would understand it. How has it gotten so much worse over time?

    • bus_factor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know, but my guess would be people gaming the algorithms. Search results have also gone to shit after everyone SEO-ed them to death, and this is probably the same.

      My favorite optimization is this restaurant in NYC called Thai Food Near Me:

      Restaurant called Thai Food Near Me

    • TheWizardOfOdd@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I remember that ten years ago you could tell it „Okay Google, bring me to [music festival]“ and it would reply „calculating route to [place where that festival is held]“ without problems. I wouldn’t bet on it still being able to do that.

    • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      And then find out you are in Triangulum, the Galaxy known as M33, and wonder how the hell did you end up two million seven hundred thousand light years away.