I had never heard of Humane until I read this article. After also reading Engadget’s review of the thing, it sounds like an absolute nightmare to use.
Maybe I’m too old-school and impatient, but I’ve never been able to make voice assistants work for me. It’s a feedback loop: the assistant fails to do a task, so I become resistant to using it in the future. Even the thing I’ve used an assistant for the most, playing music out of a Nest speaker, seems to still be hit-or-miss after years of trying, and in some ways seems to be getting worse.
The gestures also sound awful. As with voice assistants, I’ve never gotten comfortable with smartphone gestures beyond the most rudimentary. I strictly use 3-button navigation on my phone, and I use Connect as my Lemmy app of choice because it allows me to disable all the swipe commands for upvote/downvote.
I stopped all voice assistants when they started getting snippy with me for being rude to them. I don’t need a poorly design if statement snapping back at me for showing my frustration at its inability to do a basic task.
I had never heard of Humane until I read this article. After also reading Engadget’s review of the thing, it sounds like an absolute nightmare to use.
Maybe I’m too old-school and impatient, but I’ve never been able to make voice assistants work for me. It’s a feedback loop: the assistant fails to do a task, so I become resistant to using it in the future. Even the thing I’ve used an assistant for the most, playing music out of a Nest speaker, seems to still be hit-or-miss after years of trying, and in some ways seems to be getting worse.
The gestures also sound awful. As with voice assistants, I’ve never gotten comfortable with smartphone gestures beyond the most rudimentary. I strictly use 3-button navigation on my phone, and I use Connect as my Lemmy app of choice because it allows me to disable all the swipe commands for upvote/downvote.
I stopped all voice assistants when they started getting snippy with me for being rude to them. I don’t need a poorly design if statement snapping back at me for showing my frustration at its inability to do a basic task.
I’ve never experienced that, and I’ve definitely told Google Assistant to fornicate with itself on multiple occasions.
Check out Coffeezila’s video on them, the whole things shady AF, in addition of being shitty.The coffeezilla vid was about the rabbit, not the humane
Oh shit, you are right. I can’t keep up with all these snake oil sellers.