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

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 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
        22·
        10 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.

  • prime_number_314159@lemmy.worldEnglish
    402·
    10 months ago

    Just in case anyone wants this converted to freedom units, 9.792 km is 744 spindles, and 2,6 km is about 95 shackles. HTH

    • Usually_Lurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 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
    302·
    10 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
      7·
      10 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.

      • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 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
    171·
    10 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.

  • Lionel@endlesstalk.orgEnglish
    151·
    10 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…

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    132·
    10 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
      13·
      10 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·
      10 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.

  • bfg9k@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 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.

    • Konala Koala@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 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.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itOPEnglish
      43·
      10 months ago

      WTF??? How did you extract that even if I censored it

      I’m surprised 🤯 😂

      • isildun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        I’m not the person who found it originally, but I understand how they did it. We have three useful data points: you are 2.6 km from Burger King in Italy, that BK is on a street called "Via " and you are 9792 km from Burger King in Malaysia.

        1. The upper BK in Malaysia is not censored, so we have its exact location.
        2. Find a place in Italy that is 9792 km away using the Measure Distance tool on something like Google Maps.
        3. Even though there are potentially multiple valid locations in Italy, we know you’re within 2.6 km of another BK. Florence is sensible because there are BKs near the 9792 km mark.
        4. Once we do that, we can find a spot that is both 9792 km from Malaysia BK and 2.6 km from a nearby BK on a street called “Via”, effectively finding where the image was taken.


        It’s not perfect but it works well! This is the principle of how your GPS works. It’s called triangulation. We only had distance to two points and one of them doesn’t tell us the sub-kilometer distance. If we had distance to three points, we could find your EXACT location, within some error depending on how detailed the distance information was.

        • MMauro@feddit.itEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          Good explanation. Just a tiny detail: “via” in Italian literally means “street”, so not much info there.

          • isildun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            Oops. Good to know… I guess the main thing was simply that there was a BK in the right place relative to the 9792 km arc then.

      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Can also make guesses as to where you’re from as well bc not too many languages spell it Malesia

        edit: looks like Finland, for example, spells it like that, plus the Italia lines up as well