Yeah but Lemmy is a link aggregator with social media elements like comments and "likes", it's more post based than people based, you can't follow users for example etc, there are fediverse equivalents of Facebook like diaspora or friendica, even mastodon is more people people oriented than Lemmy
isn't it just a new way to access screen based search? i mean, i can do things you tak about by launching google assistant (non-gemini) and choosing "search on my screen", i use it daily to translate difficult japanese in my dulingo, select text and search on my non-pixel/samsung phone, it' there since few years AFAIK, i don't think it's going anywhere, because reverse image search is the future, also you're training their neural networks that way(👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉
Until AI models on the device will become a standard I really doubt you'll find a viable alternative, since then it will always be someone's server you send your pictures to, it's the matter of who you trust more, a well established corporation which will profit from your content or some shady company/startup that will do the same but in less controlled environment
Yeah, of course those are launcher based, but it's not like you can install a OnePlus launcher on your Samsung and use big folders, it's the same as arguing with people liking Samsung's alarm clock app feature by saying it's not One UI feature but the app
I think the voicemail thing is very country specific, I mean here in Poland voicemail is the first thing to disable when you get the phone number, it's even considered rude to have it enabled, it stems from the times when the calls were billed by the minute and carriers seemed to switch to voicemails after too soon, like after 1-2 beeps and "sending signals" (calling without answering to communicate, like "I'll send you a signal when I'll be there" or something) was popular among the young people
On the other hand the answering machines weren't a thing here, maybe it's connected?
Also I don't get the reason behind "but some random business might call me", isn't that an unsolicited call? Of course it's a completely different thing when your number is a business number, but on the other hand why not send an email? Guessing it's a deeply cultural thing stemming from aforementioned answering machines, for me listening through the voice message is inefficient, I prefer text content, like I'd rather read the article than view the video summary, but I know some people prefer it
And here we are in the times of voice messages, my wife uses it to communicate with her friend and I'm tired of hearing those umms, food swallowing, lip smacking etc
If all those features only tap to sleep seem to be launcher specific, big folders - mayyybe, more like OEM specific launcher if you want to be that specific, everything else has nothing to do with launchers
This one really looks like the onion headline