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Just stop if you need to adjust something?

That seems a lot like corpo- excuse making about adjusting usage to compensate for the fact that a product someone purchased has been changed, and broken, in order to be forced into agreement for a contract. That is called coercion in many places, but it seems like your recommended solution is that people accept getting screwed just so corporations can make more money when people complain…is that correct?

I mean, any time you suggest "regulate companies" or "form a union", you get dogpiled. So until society gets its act together and collectively fixes these problems, the only immediate solution is to opt out.

I'm just saying, how often do you need to adjust your phone while you're cycling?

It's a step back to not be able to do it by voice but if you're concerned enough about your privacy, stopping once or twice during a ride doesn't sound like the end of the world.

I'm not saying it's fine that Google took away functionality but, from a practical perspective, it seems like OP was acting like there's no other option available to change tracks. There is and it's really not that inconvenient.

Google already broke the basic functionality they wanted, dropping android now beats constantly looking for subpart workarounds.

Microsoft pulled the this crap with Windows, you once they stop caring about their you’ve already lost it’s time to stop paying their game.

So just don't bring a phone at all?

GrapheneOS or LineageOS on your phone gets rid of the AI cruft. Linux on your computer.

There are few things AI is truly very good at. Surveillance at scale is one of them. Given everything going on in the world these days it's worth considering.

OP wants AI to change the music. They just don't want the new EULA added to the mix.

AI is meaningless term when you extend it to cover everything, may as well just call it software.

So yea the software’s EULA changed for the worse, that’s the underlying issue.

Voice recognition has always been AI, and using an LLM improves it

Some parts of voice assistants used AI techniques other parts didn’t. Calling the whole thing AI is like calling Office 365 AI, it’s too vague to be useful. The most reliable parts are using dictation to interact with the preprogrammed bits.

Also, early attempts at dictation wasn’t considered AI, instead a machine learning etc was found to be useful so it’s been tossed into the AI bucket rather arbitrarily.

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