James Janssen
jamesthelesser.bsky.social
James Janssen
@jamesthelesser.bsky.social
It's not really about me is it? But am a technology leader, product manager, and architect. Consulting after 26 years in orgs.

Into Christ, family, fostering, theology, fountain pens, obsidian.md, steam deck, linux, foss, and geek communities.
This is why I do paper journals and fountain pens. If I want to keep something I put it in Obsidian.md
February 27, 2024 at 7:50 PM
I was wrong. Gemini as assistant does have Google Home controls. And with the recent fix no longer requires tapping submit after voice input, which was awkward at first.
February 11, 2024 at 6:36 AM
I knew I had made the wrong choice this week at 4am, when I had chosen to distinguish prod from dev by choosing the _light_ theme for prod in Portainer!
February 11, 2024 at 6:33 AM
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February 9, 2024 at 12:05 AM
On the other hand, after Sundar's investor call recently about 100M Google One subscribers it satisfies the pressure to monetize, in what has been a catch up AI arms race. Some not so subtle hints in the blog post about safety considering the recent internal drama at OpenAI and ChatGPT data leaks
February 8, 2024 at 11:49 PM
But how will I now manage to do the things I used to do in assistant from Gemini, since it doesn't have things like Home control? That's okay. How many of you just go to the Home app half the time because voice is often more difficult to use to turn off a light late at night than just tapping?
February 8, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Everyone had to undue muscle memory and learn a new way to call assistant (holding down the power button) instead of clicking the microphone… for the MANY times you don’t want to say Hey Google because of being in public or just waking up too many devices at home.

This primed me to say yes 2 gemini
February 8, 2024 at 11:30 PM
It should also be noted that they recently frustrated Android users by replacing the Microphone action in the Google Search bar from launching old Google Assistant to launching Google Search, and dropping some voice features from Google Assistant in general.
February 8, 2024 at 11:28 PM
That's the only time I remember as well, Justin. I am always copying Youtube urls related to work to my personal google account to avoid ads.
February 8, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Law of diminishing marginal returns applies
September 18, 2023 at 4:59 PM
However, I think you should go with lower case "it" because otherwise someone may think it's about forking IT. Which sounds like a podcast I would start :), but not the one you intend.
September 16, 2023 at 4:46 AM
I also had picked the orange on the bottom left. I also had considered suggesting a rotation because of the nature of forking. But everyone is right it looks better upright.
September 16, 2023 at 4:44 AM