I have an enterprise account and they added this button today. Guess what used to be there? The profile image where you could so conveniently swipe up or down to switch between gmail accounts. This is the kind of UI garbage that makes you want to move your entire company to another service just because you can.
It’s on my desktop Gmail and I’ve been having a shitty time trying to disable it and remove it.
Literally asked Gemini how to remove Gemini and it said it did not know, then I called it stupid, and then it apologised and said I can remove Gemini in the Gmail settings, but I couldn’t find the option after yelling at it in all caps and it’s still there just taunting me
Gemini is completely unusable… So many questions are redirected to what they want me to ask, and not to an answer for what I asked. I wouldn’t be against this if I could turn it off and if it actually added any value.
Hey Google.
I still can’t create folders in the Android Gmail app. But somehow you had time for this?
Gemini: “to create a folder, right click on the desktop, select new, them select folder. When the folder icon appears, type the name you want for your new folder.”
Me: No… in Gmail!
Gemini: “Gmail is a google service for emails”
Me: No! How do I create folders in Gmail??
Gemini: “Email folders are a great way to sort and organize your emails into easily searchable categories.”
Me: Never mind. Thanks for nothing.
Gemini:
“I’m sorry, I don’t know how to help with that”
It gets worse. If you have “smart features and personalization” turned off for your Gmail account, which I do, you can’t even ask Gemini anything. Not even to get the inevitably wrong answer.
But this still doesn’t remove the damn button for it from the corner of your screen.
Yeah that was the first thing I checked too as I was certain I disabled it all. Hopefully Gemini goes the same path as countless other Google products
I asked Gemini how to clear the cache on Google messages. It did not know.
IT COULDNT ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION ABOUT THE APP ITS PART OF
Gemini: “I can’t help you! I only work here!”
I asked Gemini to set up a counter as I always did on the other assistant and decided to tell me how much time there was left instead. I also asked it to play the news and it said it would but never did. I asked it if all cats knead and gave me a long explanation of what cats need. 😅
I can excuse the last one because of homophones even though ChatGPT got it immediately.
I’m pretty sure kneading is a way they mark territory and express feeling safe, glad to be corrected.
I think it’s a behavior from nursing
Yep. It stimulates milk production and their paws contain scent glads that let them “mark” people or things. It’s a high honor to be kneaded on by the fuzzy guys.
it should be considered harassment to advertise like this
Advertisements should be considered harassment.
We have a law in Mexico that says you can’t hang up advertisements outside your shop at kids’ eye level. I thought it was neat.
That is neat!
Is it true that in Spanish, the word “propaganda” can be used interchangeably with “publicidad,” which means advertising?
Hmm, I never thought about it but it’s apparently a thing. I’m a bit Americanized so my perception is a bit different than the general population, so TIL.
Here’s the official definition by the Royal Academy of Spain that confirms it:
https://dle.rae.es/propaganda
The only ads I get are from temu vaguely aligned with my interests
I do not sell drugs, I’m on the other side of that market
flute kinda looks like a fancy penjamin
I like using shotguns in videogames sometimes. I’ve only seen a real one a handful of times.
It is
Time to move to something else
Proton does something similar in their email client 🤢
Apparently they can’t roll out Gemini to my phone because I never gave them my birthday. It’s a really old account and they’ve been sending me notifications to add my birthday for years.
I’m in the same boat. Keep getting android popups like IMPORTANT ACCOUNT NOTIFICATION YOU HAVE TO ADD YOUR BIRTHDAY no I don’t fuck you swipe away.
It’s for the best, I used to ask Google assistant for alarms and basic searches sometimes, Gemini gives excruciatingly long responses that won’t shut up and recently started responding with things from my past emails assumingly from the Gmail account needed to set up the phone. So now I don’t have Google assistant, and will no longer search anything with Gemini out of principle. Need a new phone OS it appears
I accidentally triggered Gemini while taking a close-up photo of something in my hand. It threw up a nearly full-screen “how can I help?” message. I muttered “fuck off”, and the message now read, “I’m sorry you feel that way…” Oh my god no. NO. Gemini now disabled.
It can’t control its personality either. So when you say something like “set an alarm for 5:30am”, and it hears you wrong you say, “Set An Alarm For 5 30 AM”. Slowing down and annunciating. Then it responds Oh Kay repeating your cadence as if it needs to annunciate to you because you don’t understand, haha. Every time someone has heard it around me as been like, wow, that’s a sassy bitch.
If you are willing to forego Google Pay, I strongly recommend GrapheneOS.
Very much this. I really dislike my pixel 6 pro (i don’t understand the immense hype it got but, whatever), however, i will be getting another pixel when this dies just so i can use GrapheneOS. So good
Yeah, I have a 7 pro and it seems more like top of mid-tier device rather than a flagship, but I got it for GrapheneOS and will buy Pixel again just because of it.
Had the 6 Pro, 7 Pro, 8 Pro, and now 9 Pro
I feel like the 8 Pro is the best of that series, but I don’t have hard evidence to explain why
Despite have AI off as much as possible within our Google Workspace at work, today all of my coworkers have received multiple ads / prompts by Google to use Gemini. In Gmail, in Google Meet, and more. Our policies don’t allow us to use it so this is just ridiculous.
They are billing your company for it as well
No, it’s for free bro. Google promised!
Gemini? The Teletext-alike web?
While we are talking about shit that Google pulls that drives us crazy can we talk about the pop-up asking me if I know about driving mode EVERY SINGLE TIME I LAUNCH MAPS FROM MY CAR.
I fuckin know about it Google. I have said yes every single goddamn time. Stop fuckin asking me.
But how much do you really know about Driving Mode?
I know enough to drive my car into Google headquarters soon.
For legal reasons that is a joke and I have no intentions of driving my vehicle into the Google buildings.
It must be infuriating to work for whoever makes these decisions. I don’t think I would ever actually email them about anything because there’d be no way I could possibly trust that the reply I get is actually something they wrote
Agree this is shit UX but…
How am I just now discovering you can do the swipe to change accounts
Yeah I used to go in the menu and click the other accounts one at a time until a friend showed me. Its this and removing the youtube click to add to queue popup that drive me bananas. They both worked so well why would you change it?
Delete your Google account already
Um, the profile icon is just slightly to the left now. Or did you mean something else?
In my non-enterprise accounts the profile pic is exactly where the Gemini is now. So I flip thru them and it moves back and forth. Just real dumb. They could have added the Gemini button inside the search bar and I could have kept ignoring it.
Ohh. I use a separate phone for work so I didn’t notice that. Yeah search bar would’ve been a better spot for sure.
Better than when they switched sides in the play store and my thumb couldn’t reach the check for updates :(
K-9 mail/Thunderbird Mail
Not totally Foss but I don’t think it is bad. I just like k-9 better.
K9 stopped supporting gmail, only thunderbird does now
