Seriously? MORE AI in My Ears?!

Oh, joy. Google’s decided your earbuds weren’t annoying enough already and are shoving even more Gemini “features” down your throat with the new Pixel Buds (and updates to existing ones). Apparently, you can now get real-time translation – because god forbid you learn another language yourself. And it’ll summarize podcasts? Like I don’t have the brainpower to fast forward through boring bits myself? Fucking fantastic.

They’re also adding some “Ask Gemini” functionality directly into your ear, so you can ask your buds stupid questions while looking like a complete twit in public. And of course, it integrates with Bard (now Gemini Advanced) for… well, more AI bullshit. They’ve even got this “Clear Calling” thing that supposedly filters out noise – which is just Google admitting their hardware was crap to begin with.

It’s all cloud-connected, naturally, because privacy is SO last decade. And it requires a Pixel phone for the full experience, locking you into their ecosystem even tighter. Because that’s what everyone wants, right? More vendor lock-in and AI constantly listening to everything.

Honestly, I’m starting to think these companies just throw features at things until something sticks, regardless of whether anyone actually *needs* them. It’s a goddamn mess.

Source: TechCrunch

You know, back in ’98 I had a user who wanted to use telnet to control his coffee maker. He insisted it was “the future”. Spent three days debugging the damn thing only for it to burn out the heating element and fill his office with smoke. This Gemini crap feels exactly like that: pointless complexity leading to inevitable disaster. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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