The stupid "AI pin" is exploding in the charging case (techcrunch.com)

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They're not even doing refunds or recalls, they're just giving people 2 free months of the subscription and telling them to only charge the device and the hotswap add-on batteries with the home charger.

This piece of shit has a 4 hour standby time if you're not using the case to recharge the batteries. Literally unusable.

peppino-ha techbros owned.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Currently, the company is offering consolation in the form of two free months of its $24 subscription service.

Excuse me a subscription plan for a fucking charger? wtf-am-i-reading

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

The subscription plan is for the whole machine. It becomes a brick if you don't pay them $24 a month. Not just for the cell service that it relies on, but also because the "AI" shit that is its entire raison d'etre is all done on somebody else's computer in a datacenter somewhere.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

It's an overpriced defunct Siri

$700 for this PLUS subscription fucking tech bros.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Siri does the voice processing on device, I think, so it's actually worse than siri

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

“How could Lenin do that?”

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some of these models are so small they can run on a phone. My keyboard app has a local lite LM in it lmao. It also runs local voice detection. Imagine paying that much for a paper weight that measures the circumference of your asshole and reports back to the FBI when open source apps handle it locally for free

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

what keyboard app is that

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its a new app in beta rn. Called Futo Keyboard. Saw it in a post on Lemmy the other day. They also have a voice entry app. All local. Runs very well despite the beta. It picked up on my typing habits very quickly

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh it works pretty well, will be good once it gets good support for other languages

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's fine! You subscribe to your very portable incendiary device only until it ignites.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

nerd : the pin blew up in my face like a Looney tunes contraption and the charger combusted in my pocket but I still love the device!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

inhumane kelly

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I remember a lot of talk when it first came out a couple months ago about it getting really hot because it only and always charges inductively while also running a projector

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

We regret to inform you that the Francis Scott Key bridge has collapsed after repair workers attempted to recharge their ~~Samsung Galaxy Note 7~~ Humane AI pins.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

hell yeah.

P.T. Barnum would be proud.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Exploding like an ACME bomb when prompted into a logical paradox is a feature, actually

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I like how all the promo pics are of people having it pinned to their chest like it's a star trek comm badge picard

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That's literally the only way you can use it. It's a pin that goes on your chest so it's mic can hear you and its camera can record everything around you, and it projects some bullshit useless UI onto your hand.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Absurd

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It's like a smartphone, but get this...

pause for suspence

It's shittier!

shocked-pikachu

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

you know, im having some marks of capital myself

chicanery

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised people are still using it enough to have this problem tbh

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They probably shove it in the face on anyone they interact with. Unsolicited.